When you listen to your audio system, you are quite literally listening to your AC supply. Just as the performance of a car depends on the type and quality of fuel you run it on, so your audio system’s performance can be undermined by a poor quality electrical supply and, within your system, no components are more vulnerable to compromise than the digital and low-level units.
This is one area of technology where size really matters – just not necessarily in the way that you might assume. The critical circuits in your audio system run on DC voltage. The level of that voltage needs to be precise and the level of residual noise it carries needs to be as low as possible. All CH Precision components contain sophisticated power supplies with extensive local DC regulation. But this is one field in which you can never put too much protection between the signal path and the noisy, RF polluted and mechanically intrusive AC supply.
