Does anyone experience sound improvement from restarting power off and on of DAC?


Does anyone experience an improvement in sound from restarting the DAC every week or so by powering off for a minute and then restarting the power back on? I’ve noticed that with my PS Audio Directstream Mk1 that I get a lot of improvement in sound if I power off at the power switch at the back of the dac for a minute and then restart the dac. I find by doing this once every 5 days or so much improves the sound quality. Does anyone else experience this? I have been told on several occasions that this is normal and not to worry. 

mitchb

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With my Holo May Kitsune DAC attention must be paid to ventilation. Over-heating can be an issue otherwise. The original placement of the DAC and its separate power supply was technically inverted which was a mistake not made plain in the instructions. Placing the power supply atop the DAC - even with 3 inch tall spacers - could sometimes result in a chirping noise coming from the speakers. This was due, as I finally surmised, to overheating the DAC after an hour or two of playing. Placing the DAC atop the power supply stopped this annoyance.

My component rack is by the nature of my space vertically oriented with little lateral space around the component, so stacking a two part component such as the DAC and its power supply was an obvious convenience. Lately I have decided to just affix the DAC’s power supply to the side of the component cabinet thereby taking the over-heating issue completely out of the loop.