[leeperry]

OK fair enough thanks, BTW some forum expert claims that iPower can be improved with a few mods: http://forum-hifi.fr/thread-1686-post-160732.html#pid160732

Please turn your translator on and tell us what you think

 

[iFi audio]

OK fair enough thanks, BTW some forum expert claims that iPower can be improved with a few mods: http://forum-hifi.fr/thread-1686-post-160732.html#pid160732

Please turn your translator on and tell us what you think

We believe that our tech, engineering as well as Research and Development teams are trying hard to provide the highest quality of our products, but we always welcome advice, so thank you for that. We will have a look into it.

 

[leeperry]

We believe that our tech, engineering as well as Research and Development teams are trying hard to provide the highest quality of our products, but we always welcome advice, so thank you for that. We will have a look into it.

It looks like pure baloney to me, I very much enjoyed reading this PDF so a short explanation as to why his advices are right or wrong would be awesome if any possible please: https://ifi-audio.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/iPOWER-Much-Ado-About-Nothing.pdf

 

[iFi audio]

It looks like pure baloney to me,

Which one is it? Our previous post or that mod ?

 

[leeperry]

Which one is it? Our previous post or that mod ?

That forum post with epic mods I just mentioned lol

 

[iFi audio]

That forum post with epic mods I just mentioned lol

We're really not into bashing other folks for modding our products. But what needs to be said is that many modders are driven via performance upgrade in the first place, whereas we need to stick tightly to a number of specific goals set in stone long before production starts as that's the key part of proper design work. It's safe to say that in case of every product we operate in a fixed frame and do our very best within it to please everyone

To be fair, many audio items can be upgraded literally endlessly, in some cases really sky is the limit. If a skilled individual can set our product apart, mount in on a large rack and push things harder, yay for him. But as a company we have to put a stop sign somewhere... unless we're talking latest AMR stuff, which is really bonkers. That's where our designers were ordered to ditch all brakes and do as they please. They did, but that's a separate thing, for another time

 

[leeperry]

Right but your ripple figures are already astonishingly low so claiming that some cheap mods can improve subjective PRaT without any measurements whatsoever makes little sense to me. Especially when those supposedly "low noise" IC's will most likely end up adding noise anyhow.

BTW, is there any way to get ahold of a 3.3V iPower please? This would become the pimp-daddy of computer audio mods, I know a few people including me who would love to buy one so please advise

Otherwise what would a be the best way to get 5V iPower down to 3.3V please?

I also know of many DIY DAC's that require clean 3.3V.

 

[iFi audio]

Right but your ripple figures are already astonishingly low so claiming that some cheap mods can improve subjective PRaT without any measurements whatsoever makes little sense to me. Especially when those supposedly "low noise" IC's will most likely end up adding noise anyhow.

People do various things with our products and get various results. But we won't stop them or comment on their work (unless there's a need to clarify some facts) as we're focused on our own. All good!

BTW, is there any way to get ahold of a 3.3V iPower please? This would become the pimp-daddy of computer audio mods, I know a few people including me who would love to buy one so please advise

Otherwise what would a be the best way to get 5V iPower down to 3.3V please?

I also know of many DIY DAC's that require clean 3.3V.

We'll ask our tech team about this.

 

[iFi audio]

BTW, is there any way to get ahold of a 3.3V iPower please? This would become the pimp-daddy of computer audio mods, I know a few people including me who would love to buy one so please advise

Otherwise what would a be the best way to get 5V iPower down to 3.3V please?

I also know of many DIY DAC's that require clean 3.3V.

As far as voltage goes, we stick to standards; for USB it's 5V, car electrical systems have 12V and so on so forth, thus a 3.3V PSU would be strictly for the DIY community and many low noise regulators can do 5V into 3.3V for them. But we're not into DIY and that's the reason.

 

[leeperry]

Right, but what would the lowest noise option to get 3.3V out of a 5V iPower please?

Anything like these : ?

https://www.ebay.fr/itm/TPS7A4701-L...3V-3-3V-5V-12V-24V-1A-Adjustable/113409351534

https://www.ebay.fr/itm/TPS7A4700-L...gulator-1-4V-20-5V-LM317-replace/252771910949

"low noise" is all relative, my goal is not to ruin iPower's ripple

 

[Alboxing]

Some of you guys mentioned a "ipower revision 2" and how it sounds different etc etc.

I purchased two one year ago (5v and 12v) and they are both "revision 1.8", is there really a "rev.2" being currently sold and I was sold an "old" one?

 

[Dobrescu George]

I made a video about the iFi iPower

 

[iFi audio]

I made a video about the iFi iPower

Yes, audio acting career at its finest! Thanks!

 

[leeperry]

I've had a rev1.6 9V iPower permanently feeding an Uptone Regen for +2 years now and it recently started making a loud high-pitched whine whose frequency changes depending on load huh, I'm out of warranty eventually so basically I should consider those fancy wall-warts as disposable every 2 years?

When I plug it in makes a R2D2 whine sequence then the whine stops dancing around until load changes, without load output seems to quickly move between 8V and 12V, I guess it's really fubar and I'm lucky it didn't toast my Uptone Regen

 

[iFi audio]

I've had a rev1.6 9V iPower permanently feeding an Uptone Regen for +2 years now and it recently started making a loud high-pitched whine whose frequency changes depending on load huh, I'm out of warranty eventually so basically I should consider those fancy wall-warts as disposable every 2 years?

When I plug it in makes a R2D2 whine sequence then the whine stops dancing around until load changes, without load output seems to quickly move between 8V and 12V, I guess it's really fubar and I'm lucky it didn't toast my Uptone Regen

Can you please shoot us a PM here: http://support.ifi-audio.com/