$100-200 linear power supply

Hmmm …. Spending $100 to $200 extra on an external linear power supply for a cheap $80 MSRP FOSI mini integrated amp, (per the FOSI website page) ?

Everything in this crazy hobby is built to its price-point…., full stop.

That annoying digital “glare”, or digital “edge”, or “brittleness” is a direct function of the minimalist build quality of the amp’s components themselves, that isn’t going to be magically eliminated. 

.I don’t see the merit in an approach of a new LPS at equal to or double the MSRP price of the amp unit itself. I’d put the $200 toward the cost of a better amp first.

carry on and choose wisely, sir.

@akg_ca +1 A voice of sanity!

My favorite trick for treble glare - 4 6mm girasol opal beads tied together with flexible beading cord and slipped over the speaker cables about 3-4 inches from the speaker terminals - adjustment to taste. This in essence is a cable "choke" but much more refined than the ferrite versions. The result is a sound very much like that of tubes. Four beads fit over my 16 gauge "western electric" cloth cables. Larger diameter cables require more beads for making the "ring."

This is not technically "opal" but is called that because of the way it handles light. The beads below are 8mm diameter, and it is sometimes hard to find them in the smaller sizes. 8mm diameters will work for larger diameter cable or even the thinner gauges - it is just more difficult to make the "ring" of beads to encircle the cable with some spatial uniformity.

Girasol Opal Beads

.7mm Elastic Beading Cord

Digital glare does not exist.

@akg_ca

I don’t see the merit in an approach of a new LPS at equal to or double the MSRP price of the amp unit itself. I’d put the $200 toward the cost of a better amp first.

Because from my admittedly one-sided and purely subjective listening, I like the basic sound character of this amp. It gets the first 80% right but lacks the last 20%’s refinement. It has a lively, fun sound that just bounces along to the music. The Fosi Audio V3 300W TPA3255 has the more refined "audiophile" quality sound that most people prefer. For example compare Naim to Arcam.

IME it is easier to tame an amp than put life into a dead one (ie switching to the larger 48vdc vs 24vdc P-S.)

I did try running it in for over 100 hours but sound did not change. So I first tried Talentcell 24vdc / 5 amp output. I was expecting the sonic equivalent of an electric car’s instant full torque power as compared to fuel powered engine. What I got was less dynamics and a more flat sound. The sonic character became more like the Fosi Audio V1.0 - TPA3116 50W x 2.

I also tried the $300 IFI power elite. Dynamics were the same as the stock PS but "glare" was reduced by a haze over the music.

That annoying digital “glare”, or digital “edge”, or “brittleness” is a direct function of the minimalist build quality of the amp’s components themselves, that isn’t going to be magically eliminated.

You may very well be right. I am trying to find out if cleaner input power eliminates the need for better internal amp filtering. The Pro-Ject power box I used with their transport (now departed so can not try it out) reduced just the noise to allow hearing deeper into the music. That is what I am trying to duplicate. Battery and IFI switching PS did not do that.

I can smooth out the sound by using my NOS DAC. But don’t like to fix one error with another one.

@carlsbad2

Digital glare does not exist.

Can you elaborate? To give a corollary, it sounds more like a delta-sigma DAC than NOS.