Haha 🙂 yes sorry, but stating the obvious makes it even more clear. Just for another test in the meantime I have switched back to the Jcat with the 9 winding ferrite to the dac. The sound is still very good, but a few % more 'grey' and maybe more relaxed, because the soundstage lost some detail.
The few % more grey you will only hear the first few minutes after switching from A to B
In general, do you agree that switch mode PS are better in the digital domain then when analogue is involved, like a DAC, as Alpha Audio is suggesting? I know that very good linear ps (like your Farad) is maybe even better, also in the digital domain, but do you agree that there seem to be a speed factor involved in the digital domain, that is often easier to achieve in switch mode power supplies, from what i read?
Yes there's something there, but I think it's not about a switchmode or a linear powersupply. It's about the type of the output stage. Actually a few years ago I spoke with the head engineer / owner of Farad power supplies about the Super 3. The super 3 had in those day's a tiny elco capacitor in the output stage. It was a very fast one with very low esr. The first few hundred of the Farad Super 3 were built like that. In the measurements of Alpha Audio's multitest powersupplies you can find that type of Farad. Later the Farad was modified and the little elco was replaced by an MKS capacitor which was easely 100 times faster. Shortly after this also a little ceramic capacitor was put on the voltage regulator, which made it incredibly fast and stable. I had 3 Farads of that first type and they sounded better on analog equipment than the newer version, but the newer version sounded far better on digital equipment. Those days there were thought to build an analog powersupply line and a digital line.
I started modifying my own old types and tried almost 20 different capacitors in the output stage. Everytime the sound that it produced on equipment became different, I learned a lot those day's about output stages.
If you want a powersupply for analog equipment. Make sure it has an elco in output stage or a MKP capacitor. When you want a powersupply for digital equipment take one with a MKS or MKP capacitor.
The MKP can be used for both applications, but they normally are a lot bigger than a MKS.
The Super 10 has a MKP output stage, but a Super 6 is coming with an MKS output stage and that one will fill the gap between the Super 3 and the Super 10.
wow, thanks for that detailed answer!