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Hi,
A while ago I posted if anyone had any experience with Fidelity Audio, well I decided to take the plunge and sent Brent my Eversolo unit to design a power supply around. I ended up purchasing his signature power supply at £1K.
I did think is this OTT but thought I could always use it on a future piece of equipment. I was also persuaded by reports saying that the Eversolo is close to the Lumin U2 mini as a digital transport so I thought that this would close the gap / surpass it. I looked into Sean Jacobs DC3, but this was working out between £1350 - £2K, depending on which regulators etc. This was too much for me, and as a side note as a consumer there is no way to differentiate the performance of a £300 unit vs £5k one as no one publishes any test data.
The power supply only powers the positive rail, so everything works except the opp amps which use the negative voltage for the analogue output. The unit is rated at 3A, where the Eversolo only requires 2000mA (2A) , 250ma on the negative rail. I think in use it draws a lot less than that.
He does offer various levels of power supplies, including ones of + & - voltages for full functionality, but these designs are not his "best". As I'm using the Eversolo unit as a digital transport into my Naim DAC, I am only interested in the digital output.
Brent recommends allowing 600 hours for the unit to break-in, but here are my impressions after a day. When I added a CHC XPS to my Naim DAC, everything had a lift up in performance as if the performance window size had increased by say 75%+.
Before adding the LPS, I would have described the sound as transparent, clean, lean with a slight coldness / hard edge to the high end frequencies. Well if adding the XPS is the equivalent of increasing the window size, I'd say the Signature unit is like removing the grease from the window and giving them a good clean.
The most noticeable change is an significant increase in transparency. Now it is far more easier to hear the depth of recordings, easily hearing and following the different layers to the music. Reverberation and delays now stand out, it really does feel like everything has been cleaned up, you can sense the tightness of bass drums or what the sound of the room the orchestra was in, sounds like. Bass has more definition and punch. The hard edge to the sound has gone, with the overall sound being more refined, with everything in its place.
At the moment I'm very happy, it really has transformed the unit. I'll give an update in a month so,
Once the unit has settled down.
A while ago I posted if anyone had any experience with Fidelity Audio, well I decided to take the plunge and sent Brent my Eversolo unit to design a power supply around. I ended up purchasing his signature power supply at £1K.
I did think is this OTT but thought I could always use it on a future piece of equipment. I was also persuaded by reports saying that the Eversolo is close to the Lumin U2 mini as a digital transport so I thought that this would close the gap / surpass it. I looked into Sean Jacobs DC3, but this was working out between £1350 - £2K, depending on which regulators etc. This was too much for me, and as a side note as a consumer there is no way to differentiate the performance of a £300 unit vs £5k one as no one publishes any test data.
The power supply only powers the positive rail, so everything works except the opp amps which use the negative voltage for the analogue output. The unit is rated at 3A, where the Eversolo only requires 2000mA (2A) , 250ma on the negative rail. I think in use it draws a lot less than that.
He does offer various levels of power supplies, including ones of + & - voltages for full functionality, but these designs are not his "best". As I'm using the Eversolo unit as a digital transport into my Naim DAC, I am only interested in the digital output.
Brent recommends allowing 600 hours for the unit to break-in, but here are my impressions after a day. When I added a CHC XPS to my Naim DAC, everything had a lift up in performance as if the performance window size had increased by say 75%+.
Before adding the LPS, I would have described the sound as transparent, clean, lean with a slight coldness / hard edge to the high end frequencies. Well if adding the XPS is the equivalent of increasing the window size, I'd say the Signature unit is like removing the grease from the window and giving them a good clean.
The most noticeable change is an significant increase in transparency. Now it is far more easier to hear the depth of recordings, easily hearing and following the different layers to the music. Reverberation and delays now stand out, it really does feel like everything has been cleaned up, you can sense the tightness of bass drums or what the sound of the room the orchestra was in, sounds like. Bass has more definition and punch. The hard edge to the sound has gone, with the overall sound being more refined, with everything in its place.
At the moment I'm very happy, it really has transformed the unit. I'll give an update in a month so,
Once the unit has settled down.
