Cambridge 640P Power Supply Upgrade

The Pangea P100s are now selling at Audio Advisor for around 70 bucks each.

Given an asking price of $70 for aftermarket warts, Wonka's diy power supply looks like a no-brainer. If I understood correctly, all that project entails is to purchase the tranies and then plug the secondary to the equipment...

Quality power cords are paramount and one thing that I found improved the sound a lot was replacing the fuses I originally used with small push button breakers - and a nice case :-)

The first attempt was a 12v lighting transformer - it improved the sound a lot over the supplied units.

Once I had proved the improvements we're possible I then proceeded to use quality components across the board

If you are into DIY then it's fairly simple, otherwise go for the Pangea - it's a pretty good unit and will improve the sound over the supplied units from what I have read. They also provide a DC supply for the new dacmagic +.

Wolf - did you find that using the Pangea caused the 640p and the Dacmagic to run cooler?

My 640p is now at room temp (cool to the touch) and the dacmagic runs at about half the temp it used to.

Both units are powered on 24/7

Greg - the final upgrade was to replace all internal wiring with conductors from a piece of Furutech mains cable - I had originally used romex

Here's a link to the PS on my blog - the fuses have since been replaced by push button breakers

http://www.image99.net/blog/files/4fdd5db4b4e9a2eaef292e1de2c48117-26.html