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Sligolad wrote:Been swapping back and forth between Tony's Maplin 12v supply and the Teddy Pardo 12v supply this evening and can not find any difference between the two so it looks like prudence has come up trumps on the power supply front.

Once Tony gets his Zuma together we should all bring along our boxes as Fran suggested and go for a full on streaming session with enough ears to see if there is an improvement with 2 dedicated PC's.

Excellent news! One can only imagine how better the maplin will sound when it fully burns in!! Certainly I will not try and second guess you on that so will take it for granted El maplino
will do the job.

Unfortunately it looks like our country cousins will have moved the whole power supply game into a totally different space just as the maplin gets burnt in. Still if I understand what is happening here correctly a couple of more maplin supplies will do the job just that they will be powering individual sections of the pc.

Must cobble together the costs of my build.The only extra chunk arose because of the streacom case which added about €50-70 to the cost.

john if your still on the pursuit of usb3 on nuc a stumbled on this:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Delock-MiniPCIe ... =pcie+usb3

i almost don't believe the difference this makes compared to my pc quality one

The silver cable from elijah made a big, positive difference in my mac/jkdac system.

Well whats the composition Nige silver/copper?

tony wrote:Well whats the composition Nige silver/copper?

silver,
sounding really good right now

I built a new supply tonight.


I snagged a bigger output unit from donedeal - 6A output for CB operators. I got this turned down internally to 12.5V which will probably sag a little more under load. I then used a tap off the transformer in it to give me a 12v supply for the fan and a 5V supply for the USB. These are nothing fancy, just LM78XX regulators.

I need to make a new umbilical from the PS to the zuma now to take the new lines. Tomorrow maybe.

Fran

BTW, have you seen these posts on the jplay forum?

http://jplay.eu/forum/computer-audio/wi ... on-script/


This guy has posted a script that basically turns off huge amounts of stuff in windows 8. Even gets to stuff in the registry that would take a bit of time to work through. I downloaded his script (get the latest one from the thread, 2.1 I think) and hope to try it in the next few nights.

Anyone else look at this?

Fran

Fran wrote:I built a new supply tonight.


I snagged a bigger output unit from donedeal - 6A output for CB operators. I got this turned down internally to 12.5V which will probably sag a little more under load. I then used a tap off the transformer in it to give me a 12v supply for the fan and a 5V supply for the USB. These are nothing fancy, just LM78XX regulators.

I need to make a new umbilical from the PS to the zuma now to take the new lines. Tomorrow maybe.

Fran

that ps been for a cb, will that mean it will be a quieter more stable supply for audio or will it make no difference

interested to see what you think of the +5v to usb wtg, only made a smaller difference for me but its positive and it might need to a-b tested on its own, but combined with the +5v to usb music storage the difference is plain as day

Saw and read some of that thread re scripts.Wont be trying it until I have the pc built and running ok and working fine on the usb stick. Then maybe time to try that but will certainly want an easy reversal method.

Well hopefully for the next trial run there will be a variety of concoctions of zuma's. Certainly you guys are moving down the multiple linear route. Be interesting to do an a/b with a 'normal' powered zuma. Nice thing here is a lot of the builds are very close in spec it is just the mods that are different.

Has anybody got some diffusers yet? Hope we have some on board to test. That or the steins. BTW I will provide the biscuits.