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Blowing Fuses. Dennis Had Inspire 300B SET
@atmasphere Your opinion is noted and considered overly optiomistic at best.  You are a manufacturer and have an overly proud opinion of manufacturers IMHO.  (not that I have anything bad to say about you or Dennis Had).  erry  
Should You Leave An External Power Supply On 24-7?
yes    
Structural beam in middle of listening room
One column near the middle of the room is right near your chair and causing you problems.  It would be easy, and stronger, to replace the 1 column in the middle with 2 columns each at approximately 1/3 of the span   So you would have a column betw... 
Blowing Fuses. Dennis Had Inspire 300B SET
Power fuses are usually slow blow. 2A sounds reasonalble but 3A would not be unusual. 2A is 240 watts. Your amp will pull more current warming up and may actually pull more than 2A for a slort time, thus the slo blow. I would try a 3A slo blow bu... 
Blowing Fuses. Dennis Had Inspire 300B SET
You answered your own question.  Replace the rectifier.    
Paypal Friends and Family
Fake news. Now if you send money via Friends and Family using a credit card, they will deduct a fee.  Send from a bank, or paypal balance, no fee. International transfers will also have a fee for money conversion. Jerry  
Power strip recommendations
Power strip recommendation:  avoid. recommendation:  PS audio PP10.  
Basic question about sensitivity
I am currently driving a 4 ohm, 96 dB speaker with a 2 wpc SET.    
"Hardly Used / Less than 100 Hours / Took out for pics only"????
What bothers me more is "just taken out for photos?   If it also says no returns or untested then beware   
When to choice XLR over RCA ICs.
@vinylshadow I use RCA for that reason.   I'm always a less-is-more guy. Also, "longer" is at least 30 ft.   Jerry  
When to choice XLR over RCA ICs.
@kraftwerkturbo XLR input is often implemented using one of these little transformers that up's the dB. https://www.jensen-transformers.com/transformers/line-input/  
When to choice XLR over RCA ICs.
There is no real difference at one meter.  However there may well be a difference in how each is implemented in the Amp.  Often XLR is implemented with a small transformer which colors the sound a bit and amplifies it.  Louder sounds better.   Al... 
Add I2s to Oppo players?
I2S can work.  However, every manufacturer does it differently because it isn't standardized.  There are $$25K DACs out there that don't support I2S. We have a lot of fools choosing equipment by whether is has I2S or not, rather than the reissues... 
Add I2s to Oppo players?
Oppo seems to be geared toward HT, reading DVDs.  So 2 channel sound is probably a low priority. I2S is mostly a fools errand in my opinion. Is USB an option? Maybe you just need a 2 channel CD transport.  My CD transport is 5x as costly as my ... 
Is there such a thing as a good medium priced music streamer?
innous zen mini