Bought the Chord Qutest. Love it. Hate the power supply.

@nickrobotron 

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Bottomline is you are very happy with your Chord DAC. Congratulations!

Charles 

@lalitk 

We posted nearly the same time, I just saw your reply.

+1 , same idea and reasoning.😊

Charles

@nickrobotron

Your reaction to replies don’t make sense. People are simply responding to what you wrote, these were your words. You describe the sound as “incredible “ . So in your opinion the sonic performance is awesome/outstanding:phenomenal etc. If so, then the supplied SMPS is functioning very well.

No one suggested that further sonic improvement is not possible with a LPS upgrade, not anyone. Chord it seems uses a good quality SMPS with their DACs. The higher level Dave uses a SMPS and owners are apparently very happy with them. So utilizing a SMPS wall wart doesn’t imply poor quality. Particularly if it’s in a component described as incredible. Did you perhaps choose this term inappropriately?

Charles

@vonhelmholtz Very confusing post. If everything is incredible, why worry about the power supply? Did you mean that the sound was lacking, not incredible, and you were interested in improving the sound?

Agreed, “incredible “ is quite the high praise . If that impressive, then the “dinky” power supply is obviously doing its job very well. Some SMPS wall warts are better quality and implemented than are others. This appears to be the case for Chord in this example.

A very good quality LPS could possibly further improve sonic performance. But if already “incredible “ why worry about it.

Charles