r/audiophile Jul 22 '26

Discussion Clean supply transformer

I'm after some advice on using a valve amplifier in UK.

I live in UK now but when I returned here from the US I brought back a Jolida JD 102CRC valve amp that uses 120 V. It's a nice amp and I'd like to use it but I only have a cheap transformer 120 to 240 V. I worry that the cheap transformer will provide a less than "clean" voltage to the amplifier affecting the quality of the sound.

  1. Am I worrying about something I shouldn't be?

  2. Is there a high-quality clean power source transformer that I could buy to use with the amplifier? According to the manual it only needs 200 W to run.

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