I’ve had a Jackery Explorer 1000 in the system for a couple of days now and yes, the improvements are real. Just better across the board. I think the biggest improvement for me was the added three dimensionality. All the instruments and voices have acquired more corporeality, which leads the system just sounding much more realistic, as if the performers are three dimensional instead of flat, not extending past the plane of the speakers. I’m thrilled with the improvements quite honestly.
On the Jackery at least, the fans are super simple to get to. The two panels on each side, just remove those and the fans are right there. I removed the power leads from the boards and now no more fan noise. I’m still monitoring the temp of the case but there appears to be absolutely no heat building up. I’m only running my source components from it so not much draw, this combined with the fact that I would bet that they put those fans in there mainly for when it’s used outside on a hot summers day in the direct sunlight, worst case scenario. Here in side my house where it says between 65 and 75 degrees I’m fairly confident that I don’t have to worry about it over heating.
Was going to return it based on the fan noise and the fact that when I plug my amp in, Henry Ho H2O Signature, the transformer in the amp buzzes like it’s not getting enough juice. Presumably the amp doesn’t like seeing 110v and wants closer to 120v. While researching for a unit that puts out 120v vs 110v, I discovered that almost all of them are 110v. Yeti and EGO are the only ones that are 120v that I’ve come across.
At any rate, I’m now super pleased with just running the source components off the Jackery and running my amp off the power conditioner plugged into the wall and getting rid of the fan noise. Best my system has ever sounded!!!
On the Jackery at least, the fans are super simple to get to. The two panels on each side, just remove those and the fans are right there. I removed the power leads from the boards and now no more fan noise. I’m still monitoring the temp of the case but there appears to be absolutely no heat building up. I’m only running my source components from it so not much draw, this combined with the fact that I would bet that they put those fans in there mainly for when it’s used outside on a hot summers day in the direct sunlight, worst case scenario. Here in side my house where it says between 65 and 75 degrees I’m fairly confident that I don’t have to worry about it over heating.
Was going to return it based on the fan noise and the fact that when I plug my amp in, Henry Ho H2O Signature, the transformer in the amp buzzes like it’s not getting enough juice. Presumably the amp doesn’t like seeing 110v and wants closer to 120v. While researching for a unit that puts out 120v vs 110v, I discovered that almost all of them are 110v. Yeti and EGO are the only ones that are 120v that I’ve come across.
At any rate, I’m now super pleased with just running the source components off the Jackery and running my amp off the power conditioner plugged into the wall and getting rid of the fan noise. Best my system has ever sounded!!!