I can't hear any diff when the USB drive is powered by a completely
separate/dedicated linear supply.
This is vs a shared single linear supply getting power from a
*balanced* AC source, using a shielded USB cable with larger gauge
(than typical) power conductors. Note that this is a 2.5" drive, t
^ Unfortunately I can't at this time power the (physically) tiny USB
drive separately from a half-decent linear supply because I don't have
in stock a DC plug small enough...it is really tiny. I'd have to go
through adapter crap and I don't like that either. Next digi-key
order...
So...just one s
I don't run either of mine with an attached drive thus I don't have
first hand experience. However, from past experience in designing CD
players, separating supplies for motors, digital circuitry and ideally
for analog circuitry was one of those basic fixes that always improved
sound when the unit
^ So you only use the stock wall-wart? At this point all I can say is it
isn't terrible by any means. However, never found anything audio-wise
that didn't benefit from getting rid of the wall-wart. Even analog
wall-warts, even if they're just a transformer i.e. use a bigger one.
Switching wall-war
Probably a waste of time and money.
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Or say a single 6A supply that supplies the Touch and then the locally
attached drive via the USB cable? I also have 1.5A and 3A supplies that
I could wire up and I'd use if separate supplies is that much better. A
bit messier though. Perhaps separate feeds from the single larger/6A
supply as a co
