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Nikola Linear Power Supply receives AudioStream’s Greatest Bits Award

 in Review

Today AudioStream has published a review for Nikola Linear Power Supply for a few days now. I’m very proud to inform you guys how Nikola performs  along with other linear power supplies and products.

Linear power supply business is all about power house unit to power all kinds of devices for a long while. I aimed to build Nikola linear power supply as a game changer product from ‘jack of all trades’ to ‘master of one’ design. It’s time to move on inferior design that does all for better sound.

Nikola was reviewed thoroughly with a few devices as it was designed to work with all kinds of unit supporting power supply upgrade. It’s hard to pick which one so I’ll pick on the most beneficial part for you to read below.

Since I was reviewing the SOtM sMS-200 Mini Network Player at the same time I was evaluating the Nikola, I decided to try this combination given that the 12 volt output was within spec for use with the sMS-200. After extended listening with the SOtM sMS-200 / Nikola, I felt that many of the sMS-200 owners will love this combination. The overall sound was smooth, detailed, and free of hardness. The bass and mid bass were extremely well controlled with good dynamic qualities. The soundstage was quite large with good depth and width. The overall transient speed and pitch definition were very impressive. Voices and instruments were very well focused and had a life-like presence with wonderful transparency to the sound. And yes, background silence was perceived as being excellent.

You can read full Fidelizer Nikola Linear Power Supply review about Nikola in other aspects like how it performs comparing to other products, how it works with Nimitra and its unique charm of very low noise colorization without ever displaying a digital edge.

At first I started designing Nikola as power supply for Nimitra but I later realized that I should build good power supply upgrade for product that needs it. I don’t mind if you want to use Nikola with Brooklyn/e32 DAC, SMS-200, or LPS-1 as long as I can help your music enjoyment. 🙂

Added Nimitra+Nikola feedback from Simon Bailey

 in Feedback

Here’s another feedback today from Fidelizer Nimitra customer. He also owns a few flagship servers so his feedback will help in evaluating Nimitra+Nikola a lot.

Hi Keetakawee,

Thanks so much for all your trouble! Everything seems to be working well now. I did unplug the USB lead to the DAC, so I could compare the Aurender and the Nimitra, as you had it playing stably..

I can’t get JRemote to register, but that’s no problem now that both Kazoo and mConnect are working fine! 🙂

So, my impressions of the Nimitra, now that it is playing well is that it really is amazingly good. It can’t match the three-dimensional sound generated by the Aurender, but it’s also important to realize that most people’s systems will never know the difference..

To put that in context, the music server (Nimitra or Aurender) are playing down a ‘Curious’ USB cable into a Lampizator Golden Gate DAC, then into a Brinkmann Marconi Pre-amp, balanced signal out to PSaudio Bascombe King Signature 300 monobloc amps and into Sophera Transparent LH 1 isobaric speakers. All interconnects and speaker cables are 99.998 silver. In anything other than this system, I reckon the Nimitra would sound very close to the Aurender or Baetis – and better than Naim etc..

So you’ve done a great job – and provided fantastic service – I really appreciate it! I’ll probably set the Nimitra up for my colleague (who makes the Sophera speakers – sophera.com.au ) and see if it’s a good fit for him and his clients..

Have a good night and all the very best with your forward journey.. Please stay in touch and let me know what you’re doing..

Simon

Nimitra costs less than 10% of Aurender W20 to get very close sound quality and 30-day money back guarantee. 🙂

Added Nimitra+Nikola feedback from Richard

 in Feedback

Here’s a new feedback today from Fidelizer Nimitra customer. He sent me his feedback after testing Nimitra and Nikola with Roon and JPLAY setup.

Hoi Keetakawee,

I thought I will give you an update of my adventures with Nimira and Nikola. It runs very stable. Some times after a driver switch a DAC clock locking problem occurs but that is fixed by a restart or some more switching.
Roon runs very stable and also with JPLAY as driver / output. JPLAY Server and Kazoo runs stable (slow on the remote). I guess to much files and albums. Latest update did not solve all the performance issues.

Than at last where everything started with. Sound wise Nimitra is for me an end game solution.
I am not going to describe my experience in subjective terms but I am very happy with it and I do not need anything better. I can alter the sound it a little bit with different USB cables, drivers or the player. It’s a matter of taste but it sounds always good.

Roon performs sound wise also very nice. Comparing Roon to Jplay is not that easy. I like them both and I can use them both. Luxury problem that I am very happy with.

Regards,
Richard

Using Nimitra computer audio server and Nikola linear power supply can be end game setup for many audiophiles. 🙂

Added Nikola linear power supply feedback from Tak Ashida

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Here’s another feedback today from Fidelizer Nimitra customer. This PSU is specially built for his 19V requirements so I later added 15V / 19V support for Nikola.

Hi Keetakawee,

Just to let you know, the Nikola LPS arrived today. Have been listening to it for a while and I love it! Perhaps it needs some burn in time, but my first impression is that the sound stage is wider, the keyboard on one track was much natural sounding, the vocals less noisy and stable.

The Nikola is definitely very enjoyable in terms of musical experience. However, It’s just the beginning.. so I shall continue with the exploration.

PS: Thanks for being very flexible in building a 19V version for me.

Best,
Tak

Glad to hear Nikola linear power supply improving musical experience and analytical qualities in his system. 🙂

Added Nimitra+Nikola feedback from Kjell Nedrebo

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Here’s a new feedback today from Fidelizer Nimitra customer. He used customized PC as a dedicated audio server before and decided to take Nimitra+Nikola recently.

Nimitra/Nikola is a clear winner in my system; this innovative system represents a step change in performance. Compared with my ‘tuned’ laptop audio-PC, Nimitra/Nikola is clearly the better music machine. Higher level of detail, transparency and tonal richness. Deep soundstage, solid bass and iron control playing complex music, across all genres. The Nimitra/Nikola system moves focus from Hi-Fi to the world of music and represent excellent value for money. Thanks also for your quick and expert support!

Best regards
Kjell

Both Nimitra and Nikola are innovation to be real affordable highend products. I’m sure you’ll love them. 🙂