You question inspired me to post our den system :-). Absolutely love the X1, especially the value aspect. Auditioned against the dCS Bartok, Rossini and a 90K MSB stack. I actually preferred it over the dCS pieces, and found it almost equal to the heavily upgraded MSB at less than 1/5th the price. It does call for an optically isolated ethernet path, though, such as a GigaFOIL. I found the power supply great as-is and could not hear a difference between it and a Keces, though perhaps worth noting that the AC front end already has a Burmester 948.