LHY OR SBooster LPS

Ended up buying the LHY Lumin PSU Kit with LPS50VA over the SBooster. I have a feeling the transformer and the tech in the LHY is better, but the biggest negative of the SBooster was that it has its connection point coming out of the front. That would look so incredibly messy.

Regardless, I should receive this kit sometime this week and hopefully have it installed within the next two weeks. In general I've heard nothing but good things about replacing the switch mode power supply with a toroidal LPS.

No doubt it may be a sound upgrade but it does void your warranty.  If audiotroy is still a Lumin dealer he said what he is supposed to say per Lumin.

@mesonto 

I’ll be interested to hear your thoughts once you’ve made this change. Not sure how long you’ve had your U2 Mini but hopefully you’re familiar enough with the sound quality to know how much of an improvement is made with this upgrade.

I’m not an electrical engineer but my understanding is that the inherent noise in these devices is of very high frequency and that filtering is a very common solution. I’d be interested to know if the difference in power supplies will be audible or not.

If you don’t mind what Dac are you running your streamer through and are you using digital out (coax or AES) or USB? I have recently purchased a U2 Mini- should arrive this week. I bought this more or less as an experiment piece to determine if I’ll be interested in pursuing network streaming or if I just keep things as they are.

Designsfx,

Well I now have it and the LPS which is now powering my Ethernet switch.

Unfortunately I cannot install the kit with my Lumen just yet because of other family obligations. But I will most likely install the kit come early February.

To answer your questions:

1. I have had my Lumen U2 mini for about 6 months. (Or at least I’ve had it for whenever it was released into Canada and actually took the first one from my dealer)

2. I am running the Holo May KTE through USB. (Then through an ARC 6SE, a pair of Bryston 7B3s and finally to a pair of Focal Sopra 3s matched with a pair of Rythmik G22s crossed over at 40Hz.

I am familiar with the Lumen enough at this point to be able to tell of a difference hopefully. But admittedly to test things out I usually use what I think is best for a couple of weeks and then take it away to really see if I miss the component. Obviously I can’t do that in this case.

Maybe I’ll be able to do it this time as well if I just unplug the switching power supply and then plug in the new kit beside it so i don’t have to cut any wires with the switching power supply at least at first. (I think this is possible)

I will write back in February upon my first impressions.

Ironically I'm interested too and not absolutely sure what will sound better. No placebo, no placebo.

I have the Sbooster in my U2 mini. I’m using the Audiosensibility conversion kit. The LHY kit looks like the better choice with all of those caps and extra parts that the other conversion kits don’t have. It’s very easy to do, but I’m not sure if you can have the smps and the lps running side by side. Here’s a quick little video I made this last week of my system.