I listened to the people saying that a Raspberry Pi will solve my noisy PC problems a lot, but I had already bought just a cheap but fat-gauged cable for my pc, and found the depth and clarity increase in both audio and video that that can bring out of my PC, even while still being cheap actual cable, but now also cheaply shielded, not just rubber, was no longer a feature of my Raspberry Pi's output. It just has a cheap usb-c port for power, and a wall wart with a usb-c end. Not so much depth and detail, as a PC with a better after market cable, so it will still come down to a dedicated streamer with a universal A/C socket for your own aftermarket cable with the least power-resistance digital output port's output quality. A track read from an SSD can beat a track read from any optical disc, so goodbye disc transports, except without the industry automatically providing people with the reference uncompressed reads they should only be hearing, the rest will beg for a processor also included for compression compatibility's sake, even before wanting a network port, also. It's perfectly normal not to think FLAC is noisier, the same way you didn't think 128kbps mp3's ever sounded like there was anything missing. True enough, when cd's debuted, a 20mb HD was like $700, and not that much faster than 1x cd. But now, storage has grown way faster than audio, which is still only rarely past double the amount of samples per second, although is at least more common than 10% to find now. But your USB SSD of the latest iteration of speed can currently be 2TB for $200, which would hold a nice big library of uncompressed tracks, which there can always be an excuse to pay an artist to get legitimate copies for.
You're all just stupid oafs who don't have a good looking Indian woman singing one for you about how people already know every day is Christmas, and that's why life is never boring, suckers. Eat lead, hahaha! JK. You guys aren't really that cool, after all.
The second anyone says something is slightly dark leaning, everyone else thinks about the part where it's most obvious that their systems are only junk that's outputting noise anyways as it reaches into upper treble frequency rate requirements. After that, some people spend $100k for a TT, even though tape later beat vinyl as a recording medium. Alex, from "A Clockwork Orange", had a system that beat yours because he made copies of the original tape reel from a recording store play a better cover version of someone's playing of Beethoven's 9th better than your $100k TT version could, before that sick person got those 2 girls to join him at it.
If you ever hear a wind up TT play from it's fat heavy needle through a horn, you will hear the ghosts of real people. Electrifying your original is no longer the original, it's obviously power, before the tubes already make it obviously just faking your output by converting playback to electricity. After that, SS made little grey people that at least didn't slow down perform cover versions of all your recordings instead, before the industry wanted to go with a more complicated chip that nobody actually knows how to make exactly right, to be able to play back only minimal samples per second of all your artist's recordings, which are actually all noise, you just won't notice it until it reaches higher frequencies, and will buy anything just for saying "dark presentation" somewhere on the cover, because of it.