[serengetiplains]

Congratulations, Steve!  And Paul and Chris!

Click me.

[kaka]

Thanks for the post - thats just the BPT configuration I am retrieving from customs at the moment, and I am delighted to hear that it makes a worthwhile diference

[path73]

Even though I am "only" using an Off-Ramp Turbo 2 I2S with SuperClock, I totally agree with this reviewer's comments about the enhancement brought by the use of a cutting edge power supply. You'll never want to go back to a lesser solution. The SR3-12 has been connected to my Off-Ramp for the last few weeks and really makes my DAC sing in a way I would never have believed to be possible. An absolute must have. Thank you so much Steve and Paul for giving us access to such a great delight in music playback. /patrick

[kaka]

I had my Balanced Power Technologies (BPT) battery power unit arrive a couple of days back. I gave it an hours charge and fired up the Offramp, and found the difference was marginal. I thought to myself that the Locus USBs have been an outstanding success, but perhaps not everything you read on the forums turns to gold.

Well by tonight it has had two days charge and is totally different. The level of dynamics has raised significantly, and instruments sound even more like the real thing. The level of improvement over the wallwart is astonishing.

I'm running an Altmann dac (more battery power) and was thinking of moving up the dac chain, but hearing this I'm won't be rushing to change anything.

Thanks Steve and the forum members - your advice on cables and power supplies has most certainly delivered. 

The only downside is that the new Beatles Abbey Road remaster sounds a bit artificial and overblown !

[KingStyles]

What config did you get? Did you get the capacitor upgrade and the vcap upgrade? What about the upgraded wiring? Im curious because I am going to order one in a week or two.

[kaka]

I took advice from BPT, and went with the :

• cap pack (Multiple ultra low impedance electrolytic capacitor supply in parallel with polypropylene and polystyrene capacitor bypass after the battery)
• Litz umbilical (48? 12AWG 99.99% pure oxygen free copper Litz umbilical)

[audioengr]

I had my Balanced Power Technologies (BPT) battery power unit arrive a couple of days back. I gave it an hours charge and fired up the Offramp, and found the difference was marginal. I thought to myself that the Locus USBs have been an outstanding success, but perhaps not everything you read on the forums turns to gold.

Well by tonight it has had two days charge and is totally different. The level of dynamics has raised significantly, and instruments sound even more like the real thing. The level of improvement over the wallwart is astonishing.

I'm running an Altmann dac (more battery power) and was thinking of moving up the dac chain, but hearing this I'm won't be rushing to change anything.

Thanks Steve and the forum members - your advice on cables and power supplies has most certainly delivered. 

The only downside is that the new Beatles Abbey Road remaster sounds a bit artificial and overblown !

These old tracks are sometimes beyond help.  Just got the Carly Simon remaster for my wife and even after a good dbpoweramp rip and upsampling on the Mac with Wave Editor to 24/96, it still sounds harsh.

Crosby Stills and Nash remaster is another story.  Sounds wonderful.

Steve N.

[firedog]

Remasters: one of the problems is the added volume compression most remasterers feel compelled to do today.

To my ears, the CSN hasn't had any added volume compression done, so it sounds more natural.

I like the Beatles Remasters. They sound much better than the 1987 CD's. I do have some criticisms - for instance, I think the percussion instruments sound "digital" and overblown on some tracks - but in general the CD's sound good to me. There's all sorts of audible detail that we just didn't know was there before.

The stereo box (including Abbey Road) had "light" volume compression added; the mono box had no compression added. One of the reasons I bought the mono box (unfortunately no Abbey Road or Let it Be included, as they weren't mixed in mono) was just that. My bet is that the volume compression is at least part of what you are hearing and don't like.

[audioengr]

Remasters: one of the problems is the added volume compression most remasterers feel compelled to do today.

To my ears, the CSN hasn't had any added volume compression done, so it sounds more natural.

I like the Beatles Remasters. They sound much better than the 1987 CD's. I do have some criticisms - for instance, I think the percussion instruments sound "digital" and overblown on some tracks - but in general the CD's sound good to me. There's all sorts of audible detail that we just didn't know was there before.

The stereo box (including Abbey Road) had "light" volume compression added; the mono box had no compression added. One of the reasons I bought the mono box (unfortunately no Abbey Road or Let it Be included, as they weren't mixed in mono) was just that. My bet is that the volume compression is at least part of what you are hearing and don't like.

Compression does not usually result in brightness, such as what the Carly Simon has.  It might be pre-emphasis.  I could try deemphasis on my Overdrive DAC.  Works great on Rolling Stones tracks.

Steve N.