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Hi all, First off, I've gained a lot of knowledge from this forum. So thanks for that. I'd like to discuss the system I'm building: a custom "hifi" system that is built with second hand components to attain the best quality of sound with the least amount of money. Now, with that last point...

How do most ASR’ers cool their music servers / streamers / transports? Fans or no fans? Some great threads focus on fan-less setups, but are largely free of comparative metrics on room noise floor, fan model max dB ratings (manufacturer specs or as measured in situ), chassis-to-MLP distance...

While some of you are familiar with the Raspberry Pi or its more powerful brother, the Intel NUC, I wonder what people are using in their audio setups. The last few years a large number of mini PC manufacturers has sprung up using anything from 10W chipsets to firebreathing high-end laptop CPUs...

You will note from this simple question that this is all new to me. I have an TU-8200R tube amp with a DAC board: https://tubedepot.com/products/elekit-tu-8200-optional-dac-module-ps-3249 I want to get music on my hard drive to the DAC and be able to control it through a tablet or phone...

"The brains, a Broadcom BCM2711 system-on-chip, features four 64-bit Armv8 Cortex-A72 CPU cores clocked at 1.5GHz, a step up from the A53 found in the Model 3 B+. The Raspberry Pi Foundation reckons its latest shiny-shiny is comparable to an entry-level x86-based system and we’d have to agree...