photobillyli
New Head-Fier
Current situation: Connecting a streamer, a DAC, a Headphone amp to an ISOL-8 Powerline Power Strip.
Problem: Sometimes the sound is really good, but sometimes I can clearly hear some noise at the background. It really frutrates me.
Hypothesis: After conducting research, I believe the most likely reason is the "unclean" power supply.
Proposed solutions:
1. Use a Power conditioner/AC regenerator (i.e. PS Audio, Shunyata, ISOL-8) or an isolation transformer to replae the Power Strip.
2. Use a Portable power station to power up the equipment. The ISOL-8 Power Strip will be connected directly to the Portable power station instead of the wall socket.
I think the proposed solution 1 is very common. I can see a lot of people doing the same but a good power conditioner/AC regenerator is quite expensive to me.
On the other hand, a Portable power station is a bit less expensive, having considered my equipement doesn't draw a large current in total. Moreover, I am thinking whether a Portable power station can produce an even cleaner AC than the AC output of the power conditioner/AC regenerator/isolation transformer. However, the discussion on solution 2 seems to be highly limited.
Do you have any idea????
Problem: Sometimes the sound is really good, but sometimes I can clearly hear some noise at the background. It really frutrates me.
Hypothesis: After conducting research, I believe the most likely reason is the "unclean" power supply.
Proposed solutions:
1. Use a Power conditioner/AC regenerator (i.e. PS Audio, Shunyata, ISOL-8) or an isolation transformer to replae the Power Strip.
2. Use a Portable power station to power up the equipment. The ISOL-8 Power Strip will be connected directly to the Portable power station instead of the wall socket.
I think the proposed solution 1 is very common. I can see a lot of people doing the same but a good power conditioner/AC regenerator is quite expensive to me.
On the other hand, a Portable power station is a bit less expensive, having considered my equipement doesn't draw a large current in total. Moreover, I am thinking whether a Portable power station can produce an even cleaner AC than the AC output of the power conditioner/AC regenerator/isolation transformer. However, the discussion on solution 2 seems to be highly limited.
Do you have any idea????
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