June 2025
Stax SRM-252S and iFi iPower2
09/06/25 14:37 Filed in: Audio
This article is a sort of community service announcement to clearly say that the iFi iPower2 works with the SRM-252S - at least for me. Something that was rather hard to find clearly spelled out elsewhere.
Why is this a data point anyone should care about?
After all it is just a 12V power supply and a device that accepts 12V.
It turns out that the SRM-252S does not work well with arbitrary power supplies and the iFi one is a lot more expensive than others (5 to 10 times the price). The cheaper linear alternatives are getting rare and the common switch modes sometimes work and sometimes don't and you can't tell from the spec sheet.
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