My wall-wart heaven (contains DV p75 III content)

Like Marksnaim I was somewhat underwhelmed at first with the iFi iPower.... but 48 hours later, my SBLs hammer down more, and evrything just seems more articulate and engaging. Very pleased. I'd even go as far as to say the radio sounds better too.

Cheers, Chris

Interesting isn't it. I was listening to something earlier (The Blue Nile I think it was) and I muted it at one point because I thought someone was talking just outside the room. Realised that it was actually on the record but I'd not experienced that kind of out of the box sound from my IBL's before. Really does seem like everything has snapped that bit more into focus.

Certainly when that sort of sound experience happens with your music replay for what ever reason its working well.. nothing to do with ifi power supply, but last summer I had been re cable dressing and doing some RF choking and I was listening to some favourite Kings College Choir recordings - and it felt I could hear birds singing softly in the background of the recording - it made smile wondering why I had never noticed it before - I paused for a reason but the birds played on - they were real and singing outside 

The D75 has internal regulation and the original doctrine said that more sophisticated power supplies did not offer any subjective benefits. This of course did not align with the people who did try out lower noise versions. In the same vein, the Ipod should really not improve with better power, as it still is running off its battery. Which did not prevent Naim's own i-Supply with a firewire adaptor bumping the sound up one notch, and making it a decent tertiary source in the a DBL sixpack. Power matters....always. 

On a slightly related note, I have recently been trying a Squeezebox Touch with a custom made brute power supply....circa 1500VA transformer, around 60,000uF of filter caps, DR regulators, choke input filtering etc...and the results have been extremely encouraging. 

Ron, This is no place for humour.

Cheers, Chris

Chris,

I so needed to come to my own opinion about wall warts that a lightly pre-loved P75 MkIII is on its way to me by Canada Post as I write this. Dedication, eh? 

(It popped up on the local board this morning, I reached for plastic, got lucky).

Mind you, I'm still gunning for a 500-series wall wart.

Cheers,

Mark

There's no such thing as a 500 series wall wart, but there is a Statement level SMPS, so you can always hope for a bit of trickle-down technology.

Northto posted:

Chris,

I so needed to come to my own opinion about wall warts that a lightly pre-loved P75 MkIII is on its way to me by Canada Post as I write this. Dedication, eh? 

(It popped up on the local board this morning, I reached for plastic, got lucky).

Mind you, I'm still gunning for a 500-series wall wart.

Cheers,

Mark

Great news, Mark. I'm hoping you will be 'well chuffed'* with it like me, and it wil be a fixed point in your vinyl journey.

Best, Chris

* Southern English vernacular, not quite sure how it will translate but decided to go with it anyway.

Hi Chris!  Right chuffed with the P75. It came on song after 24 hours of warm up, and I'm really enjoying it.  Resoundingly better than my previous one - while the Rega liked to boogie and was good fun, the P75 is superior to my ears (as it should be at the price), and I'm busy re-visiting the music collection. Now just to get that killer wall wart and perhaps power the wall wart with a Supercap DR if the bank account stretches (...oops, sorry, just broke your no humour rule ).  Cheers, Mark

Ha! Very good, Mark, and I'm glad you like your P75 too. It's 'well decent'  :-)

Best, Chris