Linn 500 Solo - Manual (Page 24)

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If it really bothers you that you may not simultaneously be able to melt
every drive unit in your loudspeaker system, not to mention your ears, then
lay in a 230 V mains supply just to provide power to your Klimax system. You
may want to consider this for the quality of mains supply rather than only
for maximum theoretical power. If you are going to this effort, consider making
the new wiring operate at 200 V (Japan) or 230 V (USA). Obviously all mains
wiring must be professionally installed to satisfy the appropriate local
standards. One of the benefits of the Klimax switch mode power supply is
its tolerance to mains supply quality, and the much lower damage it does to
the incoming mains supply. Contrary to popular belief, a big audio amplifier
does a lot more damage to the mains supply than anything else in your
house, and the mains distortion from the power amplifier can cause other
audio components grief. Fitting in separate mains wiring spurs for the
sources and power amplifiers is not to isolate them from the mains distortion
present in the rest of the house; it’s to reduce how much of the mains
distortion from the power amplifiers gets into the other audio components
in the system! Linn switch mode powered components can actually help to
improve the sound of all the other components in the system.