Best Record Player PSU

Although I liked the Hercules, Imsomehow felt the Linn lost a bit of character. Overal it was better but I did miss the Valhalla in a way. Lingo mk1 was more sterile and less enjoyable. I think they are the only ones I’ve tried switching.

[quote author="@l never compared the Valhalla to the Mose Hercules not to be confused with the Hercules the Mose is much better than just the Hercules but did compare Valhalla to Lingo 1 and the 45rpm thing just edged it in favour of the Lingo. Of the 33 only PSU’s it was close between the Avondale and the Armageddon but they where both better than the Valhalla

In every way but especially with acoustic music like Jazz and vocal music both the Armageddon and the Avondale deliver power to the deck in such a way that it can get up to running speed much quicker and maintain that speed in a much more accurate way. It was this that made me want to try Direct Drive Record player.

if they make the speed of rotation more accurate and more consistent then you're going to get more accurate pitch. That might be noticeable or it might not depending on how bad it was before fitting the upgraded power supply. But then if the record is warped or pressed even slightly off centre that's going to make pitch less accurate, nothing the power supply can do about that. There are some things I miss about vinyl but wobbly piano notes is not one of them!

I was talking about records with the hole off-centre or that are warped, not a problem caused by the TT itself. 

Although the wow could come from the RTR machine in the studio, the CD of Boston's 'Third Stage' has audible wow on the piano notes. Not much you can do about that except accept it as part of the recording. 

And yet the upgrade market for technics decks is littered with loads of psus.

Theres nothing that cant be improved.

The 1210 psu can easily be improved with the usual suspect type mods. Most old sp10s will need some love to get back to spec, but even they respond to better regulation on the rails and frankly theres bigger fish to fry mechanically.

Cant imagine there's much more than fucking it up to be done with new sp10 though.

Yes, the Guru stated that as long as everything is to specific measurements, there isn't much the SP10 needs from a PSU. MINE, was his and its never failed me.

I fitted the LDA PSU to my Techie last night and the improvement was instant, it was exactly the same when I replaced the original PSU from a very early LP12 with an Avondale one and when I replaced a lingo 1 with a Mose Hercules. It was a bigger improvement than when I went Linn Basik >> Ittock, Ittok >> Ekos 1 and Ekos 1 >> Fidelity Research FR12, bigger than when I went K9 >> AT OC9, Dynavector 10x5 >> 20x2L and from Benz Micro Ace >> Benz Micro Glider SL.

My partner has almost perfect pitch recognition when I was resetting the speed control switches on an old Lenco I was rebuilding she got very, very, very close by just listening
and she said that she listens to the vocals or as macca said piano.

Agreed it has taken my SL1200 up a good few notches. I could of course be imagining the whole thing and be the victim of some elaborate con by some nefarious, evil genius using mind control to sell a few PSU's to us poor audio fools.

The caps in the Valhalla get pushed hard, once they start going the resistors get hot and once they fry they invariably take out a few components. 3 new hv caps and 5 watt resistors on long legs as a preventative measure fix things nicely