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I agree. But there are preamps and power amps with a much lower Zin.

I fully agree, but there are effects that are not measured even here. For instance, what is the effect of a different ratio of DAC...

In most cases, yes. Sometimes there are products that break the envelope and significantly improve on the SotA, like the Mola Mola...

Of course this is a reference to power often translated from chinese as "bile" on the AliExpress site...

If you are talking of the Hypex modules, they have their own technology.

Luckily this site also proves thay many sub $1K DACs perform as well as the SotA $50K DACs for people with too much money and little...

I would venture that this is not necessarily snake oil. Pricey? Yes.

Yes. There is delusion and ignorance on one side, and malice and exploitation on the other one. The first ones can be perhaps educated...

LOL. I sometimes got this with some “smoothing” applied directly to the graphs of datasets — which led me to smooth the datasets first...

Norddeutsche Bodenständigkeit?

Grounding your audio equipment is passé. You must also ground YOURSELF: https://www.groundingwell.com/

I would guess because modern SMPSs are lighter, more efficient, less noisy.

Well, old fashioned switching PSUs were noisy, but switching PSUs that "become noisy over a short period of time" are a bit of a...

No. (And why should it?)

For a moment I thought I had accidentally opened ‘computer audiophile’ . Keith