Originally Posted by
Gazjam
Jez knows his stuff for sure, and as he (rightly) has said before,,, power supply is important.
The mains power supply is where your music comes from, dont compromise!
IFthe processing after the PSU is good enough then no the mains power supply does not matter one jot. Remember it comes into the PSU as spikes of current in the first place!
If you are not in a position to know how resilient against PSU issues your equipment is, and also not in a position to do anything to improve the situation by adding filtration etc (as I guess most lay person hi fi users will not be) then yes get a good PSU.
If a SMPS is chosen at the design stage then suitable smoothing and filtration will be part of the design and it will work just as well as a linear supply
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