Radio Power Supply in HiFi Application


Hello everyone, long time forum reader first time poster. I have what might be considered a noob question by some so forgive my ignorance: what’s the difference between radio linear power supply, “lab”, and the audiophile ones? I know the audiophile ones state they’re focused on reducing noise, but wouldn’t the others have this same purpose? The reason I ask is because I picked a used marine radio LPS for $20 locally to use with the uptone Mac mini conversion kit to get me by until I can afford something better, but the sound quality upgrade has been very satisfactory considering the $200 investment, so I’m now wondering whether it’s really worth spending the extra money for an uptone or sbooster for can additional to $700 or so. Hope to hear thoughts/facts on the topic and thanks in advance,

Mat
matias9
Don’t feel bad matias9. I must be noobier than you, because I don’t have any idea of what you’re talking about!
If it sounds good, then no need to spend. I used a $30 LPS for a class D amp and it sounded great. It's possible there are better components in the expensive units but you may be looking at diminishing returns.