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fuzztone

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What I really hate about some music
Shake Your Moneymaker wordy enough for you?  
Using battery power to go off the City's power grid
Anker 757 for me. No big deal as far as audible differences since my feed is the first from the transformer and runs through a PS Powerplant.  
Turn an Intel macmini into a music server
Macmini is much cheaper? So you crappin’? The only true fact is that it is much noisier. Check with Paul McGowan. He used a customized MacMini for years. Then he switched to Innous Zen while building one from the ground up  
Are Expensive Balanced Interconnects Necessary?
Never necessary, SOMETIMES an improvement. Only you can determine what’s "worth" it. XLR, TRS not much difference.  
New streamer, new to streaming
A true streamer will of course stream Radio Paradise either/both through TuneIn or an RP extension. I am unfamiliar with what you have, as you are.        
Diy Audio
If you can’t afford Dayton Audio B452-AIR 4-1/2’s, you can’t afford surround. You will NEVER make any better rears for less.  
Subwoofer for Raidho XT-1 sadly buried in a console built in?
SVS come in white.  
What Is Most Important?
@thecarpathian  Rolling is for street weed. Never again.  
Has anyone had on of these CD players? How good are they?
Buy nothing 'vintage" used with a drawer  
Asymmetric pre outs - sound quality issues?
Dunno. Does it?  
Smoothing power transients?
I have decent protection with an AQ PowerQuest 3  https://www.ebay.com/itm/354173970641 > Zero Surge 2R15W > dedicated line, breaker > whole house panel surge protector. Downstream of that PS-606-HospitalGrade strips are OK.    
Upgrade 2 conductor power cables
It takes 2 for polarization . Slielded cable constricts the sound. Start over.  
Which sounds better: I2S or Coax.
I noticed far more difference between Toslink and coax through a Topping E50 than any inputs on a DirectStream. Of course you NEED to use i2s with a PS Audio transport for features. My rec is Revelation Audio Labs HDMI style i2s cable.Good luck g... 
What Is Most Important?
#1 is the right blend of Sativa. A good recording (no definition of a "good’ recording available) helps. There is the rub. Good to me might be bad to most others. If you had found it you wouldn’t devote precious time to scewy questions    
USB Digitil microscope advice
The cheaper that the optics are, the harder to use. Good luck finding a useful one.