NDX2 with XPSDR - where are voltage feeds used?

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When using an XPSDR with NDX2 does anyone know where each power feed is used?

XPSDR supplies:
+/-10V
+/-22V
2x15V

From reading the new classics thread (and incompatibility with nDAC) I am guessing +/-10V is DAC related.

I might guess +/-22V could be analogue stage.

Does this mean the 2 x 15V feeds are related to streaming board and DSP areas?

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This taken from the main site:
Features

  • Four isolated transformer windings with six low-noise DR power regulators - configured as two isolated regulators for digital at +15V, isolated +/-10V for DACs and isolated +/-23V for analogue stages
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Ha ha serves me right. RTFM.

Matches what I can see from internal pics too.

So as a transport I wonder if we’d be exercising one or both of the 15V feeds.

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In the ndac the clock appears to have its own supply. Maybe 15v is used for clock.

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Don’t know the specifics, but the reason NPX300 can’t power nDAC was due to the negative rail being required for DAC chip I recall.

NPX only has +10V

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The clock in the ndac requires its own power supply, which is anything above +8v. So it is possible +15v is used.

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Anyway we already have a 555PSDR on nDAC.

I guess my outstanding question is whether both 15V feeds are used on NDX2 as a transport.

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Looking at the pictures of both a NDX 2 & XPS DR i’m going to say yes, and i think this is where the biggest appeal of the external PSU lays. However this just pure speculation from my part. Maybe someone who is more clued up than i may like to comment and set the record straight.

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Yeah, my visual inspection of internal pics suggests same but can’t really be sure what each feed to boards is used to drive.

I could always crack out the multimeter but if someone from naim could tell us it would be handy :smiling_face:

Itch to be scratched.
Money > Sense

:laughing:

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You’re probably best asking Naim support.

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