I am sure the best available power supplies are available inside audiophile equipment.
Best affordable Linear Power Stage
Looking into a purchase per the Title. The Allo Shanti looks to be a good piece, with favorable reviews and pricing. However I can’t find any place selling a new one and allo.com won’t load up. Is the company still around and has anyone tried one of these, I’m looking to use it with my LAIV uDDC. Appreciate any insights anyone can provide.
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Lots of nice ones out there, all depends on price willing to pay. I always go with lps that can provide more amperage than device requires, much better for reliability, keeps heat down. @ghdprentice There are many reasons why outboard linear power supplies superior to either inboard supplies or devices that use external switching power supplies. If we're talking about streaming equipment, many devices designed to use outboard power supplies, certain manufactures understand the intended use of the device and/or their own limitations in designing and manufacturing high quality linear power supplies. Many of these manufacturers are small operations, they specialize in a single thing, let others take over for the lps, put the two together and you have a quality device. |
@steakster thanks for the Aura recommendation, looks very interesting will check into it. |
You're going to have a very hard time beating any of the Sengterbelle R-Core power supplies on Aliexpress at anything remotely close to the price and probably at 3-4X the money. I read somewhere online that there is a UK audio retailer simply marking them up and selling them for around 400 GBP. R-Core like the Allo Shanti so extremely quiet with digital gear and benefits from a good power cord and DC cable (which are also ridiculously cheap on Aliexpress). I own 3 of them, 2 5V and a 12V for my modem/router. That one may have been the least bang for the buck but the two 5 volts I have here on a Topping E30 MK II DAC and a Wiim Pro + as a streamer only have been a huge bang for the buck and both directly compared to a less expensive Talema torroid based 25W power supply. I was really surprised at how much it elevated the performance of the Wiim as streamer only.
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