Please let us know if it does! Interested in hearing your thoughts on this use of the Elite!
Cheers!!
Bubba
Last night I finally got around to some A/B testing. It was good exercise as I had to run up and down the steps as my router (UniFi Security Gateway) is on the first floor in a wiring closet while my audio system is on the second floor.
My reference tracks are files that have been upscaled with PGGB and stored on the internal drives on my Antipodes K30. Thus what I was evaluating was the impact of a power supply on my router to music stored locally on my server.
There was an improvement with the Elite supply over the stock supply that wasn’t difficult to hear. Some listeners might say that it was a subtle improvement but I’d say that it’s still an important improvement.
Music played off the K30’s drive sounds great with either the iFi supply or the stock supply on the router, but some harm is done when the stock supply is used. The stock supply knocks things slightly out of focus. Swap the iFi Elite back in and it’s as if the fine focus is better dialed in. The improvement is important as it improves believability as voices and instruments emerge from a more realistically sized position in the soundstage. With the stock supply images are less focused and more spread across the soundstage. The Elite supply makes my favorite female vocalists more convincingly real and in the room with me.
At some point I will repeat the evaluation but using streamed music. I heard enough though to determine that the Elite is a keeper. My gut tells me that it’s contributing even more than I was able to glean from the A/B testing last night. That wasn’t the easiest process due to having to run up and down and also having to wait for the network to come back to life afterward.