Wynnytsky
500+ Head-Fier
Love that response, and it really hit home when I clicked your spoiler alert.hah) I am wasting time on audio
Because I am using audio gear not for music playing but for all: games, video, music
I keep forgetting this place is called headfi and I spend half my time thinking about my room and how sound bounces.
Wait till Qinghua sees that computer -- maybe he could help you direct some of that cooling to his HE units.
I want to throw in my own experience with computer power:
I can't say for certain I heard a difference between powering a computer with a 200watt 10amp LPS and a laptop brick.
But anything I gave LPS power in between the computer and DAC was huge (USB "regenerators" and USB interface).
I also have one dual gang outlet, so one plug gets the Niagara 1200 and the other was empty.
Last night (around 250 hours) I moved the DI20HE from the Niagara 1200 to the empty outlet and that was a sound worthy of the over-the-top praise I've read here.
After doing that I heard a tick of noise every now and then but that cleared as it warmed up, and even if stayed I would keep it in the wall because it was that impressive.
Q: Do you plan to on getting amazing VR goggles, or at least a big monitor for that? If I didn't know better I'd think that thing was procured for mining crypto currency or some other brute force problem solving.