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life span/failure rate of filter capacitors?
One thing well documented which at Coda very good engineering Doug -Nelson  pass engineering team before Nelson went solo in mid 90s. Coda always leave low voltage on  to keep the circuit warm and caps partially charged , warmup time is less, ea... 
Snowballs
Only a complete moron would be throwing objects .they should have been tossed out IHave seen especially Philli fans even throwing brandy  bottles ,cups of beer these drunks are lucky the players didnot come into the stands and use them as practice... 
life span/failure rate of filter capacitors?
Much has to do is how much demand on them in the circuit ,better to have more smaller caps lower distortion ,  how hot is the area and how much use . failure much higher in amplifiers ,quality too of the caps has a lot to do with it .  caps get d... 
Does a brand new electrical circuit for audio gear benefit from burn in/break in time?
These outlets are great built like a tank put these in your audio room for $100 money well spent     
Does a brand new electrical circuit for audio gear benefit from burn in/break in time?
Without breaking the bank $300 each for Furutech not necessary  pangea  makes very robust outlets with excellent grip gold over Copper  $50 to $100 each whatever you can afford . Very easy to instal even has a video  
Does a brand new electrical circuit for audio gear benefit from burn in/break in time?
Without question it does get better give it a week ,just like speaker cables  and use good gold copper outlets the garbage that are on your wall is $3   buy good outlets and always copper,never aluminum wire !  
Pure Class-A Amp under $2000 (USED)
There was a very good made-in U.S.A Coda 100 wpc pure class -A for sale for $2k just last week  if I didnot have so much going on I would have bought it .  
Help optimizing my streaming setup
The uptone Ether regen is excellent also just plug Ethernet cable in to it then on other side your best Ethernet cable and it’s clean of all digital noise  many great reviews.  
New DAC or New Streamer?
More impact with a-quality dac for sure everything starts with the dac good or bad . I own desfrid gear and heard them all, dont overlook the  Excellent  T&A dac 200 for $6900 a great piece of technology with HQ player built into the design ... 
Help optimizing my streaming setup
Contact small green computer ,the Sonore products are excellent I just bough5 the Ethernet to fiber optic deluxe modules , you buy them ,decent linear power supplies  and from the router, much  cleaner for noise cannot travel over-fiber optic .  
The revolution has begun!
The digital Xover not my cup of tea , I would rather flavor to the sound I like . there are tons of great sounding old fashioned class A , class AB amps. vaccum tube single ended, triode, pentode amps.  My audio sounds real good . gan is just On... 
Pontus ii and Hi Res
The pontus doesnot do mqa no big loss,  it’s not better then hires files anyway  just go to QObuz.  
Stream box s2 ultra vs sonore ultrarendu
Ultra Rendu replaced by the deluxe , which is much better $499 , use one  on both ends ,for best sound  the 9 v  Ifi audio noise cancelling power supplies for $70 each as good as many midfield Linear power supplies with their noise cancelling tec... 
Melco N100 vs Sonore opticalrendu
For sure your computer by far the dirtiest part ofyour system ,you need a dedicated server  small green computers Sonore , you want usb module from computer  the i9 is great fiber optic , then usb out  with a good power supply  They have a nice ... 
Please, what DAC is this?
Could be a Zanden dac