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@peter_s about your question…if you look at the specs of the amplifier…it idles at 230 watts. I owned PSM 156 and I in my opinion it’s extremely overrated and overhyped. It does seem to lower the noise floor slightly but at the expense of reduci... 
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@aldnorab you got it!  
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You probably won’t be sinning records anymore unless it’s a rare recording not available on Qobuz.   
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Yes it is. Glad you stayed the course and tried it out. It’s incredible the difference a good streamer can make.   
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@rvpiano yes I know. I would just recommend saving albums into favorites and you can either browse thru them or use search ti find a specific album. Depending on a use case, it might not be ideal but it’s serviceable. As to the Roon recommendation... 
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Don’t plug the amps into Puritan. It’s limiting current. Those amps need to be connected to wall outlet or passive power conditioner. You can keep your source components in puritan if you like how they sound.  
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RV…the app is actually pretty good. Once you get thru the learning curve and get used to it, it’ll be fine. Your observation about the sound quality and tome is spot on.   
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Actually RV take a look at this video and see if it helps  https://youtu.be/y_0G-utn-iE  
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If no one responds, I’ll see if I can do this on mine when I get home tonight.   
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As to exorbitant price…yes the N200 is not cheap. But the build quality, components they used to build it and finally the sound quality it produces, I’m with you…I think it’s worth it.   
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RV…you got it! Even the airplay sound quality should improve. keep cooking it…you should be set in about 200hrs just run USB to make sure it all settles, streamer and DAC that you haven’t used with USB (my assumption).  
Keep light equipment from tipping up from cable weight?
This door stop on top of a component should do the trick https://a.co/d/2Z7I97J  
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RV…please make sure both the dac and streamer are powered off before you connect the streamer to dac with usb. After the DAC is on bootup the aurender.   
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YouTube playlist with instructions      https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLOfIbdWjSaXrZ7TBU_8rYymgYwIkrthsE&si=kGj_EvCfKRJgfOsw  
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+1 oddiofyl RV…N200 is optimized for USB. I tried coax and it sounded good. But USB sounded even better. I would encourage you to try. Use the included USB cable. As I mentioned, it’s decent.