Power supply for Shanling CR60 CD Transport.

[BlackCountryWolf]

Evening all. I’m a long-time ASR lurker, but I’ve registered to ask you experts this question:
I’ve just purchased a Shanling CR60 to use solely as a CD Transport, to my Sabaj A20d 2022 DAC (purchased after reading the ASR review!).
This week I bought an ifi Xpower (12v 2a) as this is the manufacturer’s recommended specification of DC power supply. I’ve just returned it to Amazon as I came home from work yesterday to a weird plasticky smell - eventually traced to the (very warm) XPower.
I’m now using an Apple 5v 2a USB power supply to power the CR60. This is plugged into a Tacima CS947, that I’ve had for a few years.

I’ve started looking at linear power supplies, like the Fiio PL50 and Topping P50.

I’d just like to know please whether either of these would be compatible with the CR60 (I’ve seen a YouTube video where a chap uses the Fiio), and really whether either of these are worth bothering with at all.

Would either of these make any difference to a CD transport, or am I better off saving my money and sticking with the USB option?

Thank you for reading my first post!

 

[solderdude]

Unless you are plagued with weird unwanted 'noises' when no music is playing that go away once the mains cord of the transport is disconnected there is NO benefit whatsoever for a 'linear power supply'.
It is literally all marketing and praying on people that want something to 'upgrade'.

If the Apple adapter works fine and you don't hear anything weird in silent passages there is no need to buy anything else.

 

[MAB]

None of this makes any difference. Except that companies will try to con you into spending more than $100 on a wall-wart that smells like burning petrochemicals, then waste your time in worry about what is next. It's a CD transport / computer optical drive and should be the last thing you ever worry about in life, yet here we are.

 

[BlackCountryWolf]

Unless you are plagued with weird unwanted 'noises' when no music is playing that go away once the mains cord of the transport is disconnected there is NO benefit whatsoever for a 'linear power supply'.
It is literally all marketing and praying on people that want something to 'upgrade'.

If the Apple adapter works fine and you don't hear anything weird in silent passages there is no need to buy anything else.

Hi there. Thank you for replying to my post. This was kind of my suspicion, as I’ve always believed that digital info either gets through, or it doesn’t - so there can’t be any audible difference if it’s powering the transport?
Truthfully I only decided to give the ifi XPower a punt, as I had a £100 Amazon voucher itching to be spent.
Refund sorted, anyway!

 

[solderdude]

Hi there. Thank you for replying to my post. This was kind of my suspicion, as I’ve always believed that digital info either gets through, or it doesn’t - so there can’t be any audible difference if it’s powering the transport?

There could be something like hum, weird 'noises' that can be caused by a high leakage current but when a silent part of a recording is truly silent than those 'gremlins' are either below audible levels or not present.