There is a very nice 3 part piece on power supplies in the latest on line edition of "Valve" magazine which is part of the bottlehead.com website
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Regulated Power Supply- what does it do/mean?
I have pretty good quality components, amp, preamp, cd player. I also have a PS audio PowerPlant P-300, which regenerates the AC to make it a perfect 117 volt p-p sinewave no matter what the voltage fluctuation is from the wall.
On further thinking, my question is why do I need power regeneration if my preamp, amp and CD player have fully regulated power supplies (don't reply with other features of the P-300 such as multiwave or filtering)? Shouldn't a fully regulated power supply give you say exactly 20 volts DC even if the line voltage fluctuates? Isn't this the purpose of a "fully regulated" power supply or am I wrong? What is a "fully regulated" power supply?
On further thinking, my question is why do I need power regeneration if my preamp, amp and CD player have fully regulated power supplies (don't reply with other features of the P-300 such as multiwave or filtering)? Shouldn't a fully regulated power supply give you say exactly 20 volts DC even if the line voltage fluctuates? Isn't this the purpose of a "fully regulated" power supply or am I wrong? What is a "fully regulated" power supply?