Bluesound Node (2021) PS upgrade to Teddy Pardo; is it worth it?

Putting $435 linear power supply into a $600 streamer is definitely a cost effective bang for the buck.  The performance is definitely an improvement.  If you look at all the music servers vendors, they will have a significant price difference between a model with switching power and a model with linear power. 

The difference between Innous Mini and Innous Zen is about $1400.  The Zen had a linear power supply and maybe an spdif output.

Melco has a $3k difference between N100 and N10 with the N10 external linear power supply being the only practical difference.

I have attached a $600 linear power supply to a $300 Tivo Bolt (DVR) and it made a huge improvement in sound quality.  Anything linear power supply you do for the Node2/2i will be an improvement.

@ericsch 

Teddy Pardo makes outstanding power supplies. There are many threads about streaming that state the cost of high quality sound comes at a price of $2000+ . If that's true, then the Node upgrade makes sense. I'm undecided.

I've made a significant upgrade in SQ with my Node2i by adding a Cullen C7 power cord and using CAT8 ethernet from the router. Pretty inexpensive for the increased performance.

I also have the Cullen C7 cable. It will not be compatible with the Pardo PS.

I too, am undecided.

Thanks for all the contributions to my OP. I think I'm going to take plunge on the TP PSU for my Node (2021). It seems to be a consensus that you would have to spend a lot more on a new streamer to see a significant SQ jump from an un-modded Node. 

Additionally, considering how well thought of TP PSUs are over on the Naim forums, I don't think there is any doubt over the quality of TP products; Naim users are pretty fanatical (in a positive way) and discerning about what non-Naim gear they insert in to their systems. 

Thanks for all your thoughts, much appreciated 👍

Just as an aside, I had a nice improvement, not night and day, but significant, by inserting a short length of optical cable between two TP Link Media Converters at the end of my run of Cat6a from my router, then a short run of Supra Cat8 with Telegarten (spelling?) connectors at each end, into the Node.

My router sits in the adjoining room, with the TV, TV service box, Sonos gear, smart lighting bridge, and few other bits and pieces. As you can imagine, not the quietest of electronic environments 🤔. This relatively inexpensive tweak, dropped the noise floor further, and "cleaned" up the overall signal.

I got this suggestion from this forum, I can't remember the contributor, but definitely worth doing considering the low cost