Choke power supply- part 2
Back in 2008 I asked why choke power supplies were not more common. At the time, the majority of opinions were that choke power supplies were more expensive and so most manufacturer's chose not to use them. Today, with mega priced gear, I still question why manufactures are not more enamored of using them in their power supplies?
I am of the opinion that a choke power supply can sound spectacular and it does seem to offer several technical advantages...so why not more popular? Surely if it is still cost, that seems to make less sense as the price of top flite gear is now approaching six plus figures! Thoughts?
And Pass amps use choke filters in their supplies too, but the question was why they are not more common, not whether they "can" work. I don’t need Mike Moffat and Jason Stoddard’s blessing for my comment and I expect across a table with engineers, their answer would not be much different from mine. The fact it "impresses" you means it already "works", even if it does not make sense. It sounds really cool from a marketing standpoint. Choke regulation used to be common in linear power supplies.
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I am not yet impressed as I haven't heard the amp yet, its not in production. I am curious about the amp(as I said above), as I am curious as to why some try to find fault with something they haven't heard yet. If Pass Labs is doing it then its not like Schiit Audio is stepping out on a limb. Have you heard any of their amps or other products? Schiit Audio does almost no marketing, its part of their business model and partly why their products don't have stratosphere mark ups. |
The question was why are there not more amps with choke regulated supplies. Not whether you can make one work. I certainly did not question whether you could. I said there is little practical reason for doing it (beyond what I stated) and many practical reasons for not doing it. Marketing is not just advertising, it is also how you present your products to market. Absolutely Schitt does marketing, they don't do a lot of advertising. |
I seem to have misread @daveyf question, and the responses of @cindyment are so inane, I had decided not to respond. But here goes anyway. All linear power supplies use a combination of chokes and caps after rectification to smooth the rectification pulses into a quasi DC output. The degree of ripple in that output is a consequence of the values of the components used. There have been choke input linear power supplies, which used to be used primarily in tube amps. Charles Hansen used this type of choke input power supply in his Ayre V-1 and V-3 amps, but abandoned it for his later amps because of the high cost and weight penalties which would have made his products non-compeitive. You can google these amps for descriptions It is inconceivable that someone would state that it makes no difference as to whether a choke is used before or after rectification. IF Schiit has designed a new amp with maybe a choke input PS is not relevant until said product makes it to market.
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