Time to tweak Power Plant to pieces too
. I had to melt the plastic connectors inside to hardwire the Valhallas there (the pins were too deep inside the plastic).
1) Removed the stock "Monster Special" internal wiring from the path that I had previously soldered my amp's Valhalla power cord into.
2) Removed step-up transformer of Power Plant for DAC1. Removed Marinco plug and Power Port from path. Changed DAC1 from 220v into 110v.
3) Hardwired amp and DAC1 into pins inside Power Plant.
4) The plate of the Power Plant is a few cm open at the side.
5) Removed "Monster Special" wiring (hardwired to UO) between Ultimate Outlet and Power Plant. I replaced it with 55 cm Valhalla but I added Wattgate plug and Power Port into the path.
6) Computer and Power Plant share the same Power Port in the Ultimate Outlet.
7) Changed Cary transport's Valhalla from 55cm into 105cm. Changed Wattgate into Marinco plug.
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Green = Better
Red = Worse
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First impressions: More low-level detail. More smoothness. Faster bass. Less fatigue. More vocal information, I hear new words. More open.
More background noise. It sounds blacker and noisier at the same time.
It got better and worse at the same time, it sounds weird.
It was disappointing, I had expected more. Bypassing fuses inside amp made a bigger difference. But it still made a bigger improvement than Valhalla digital cable.
I couldn't get camera to work so I can't post pictures yet. It has been slowly dying for a few months now. Too much picture taking of my tweaks!
Edit: Projector is now using stock cord again. Uh, I didn't expect it to be this blurry, I get headache from trying to read blurry text, bottom of screen looks very bad, only middle is sharp enough. But audio is more important than video anyway, who cares of headache when it sounds like this!