Doc, is there any minimum height that we should be looking to have above these?

I ask as I fancy a pair for my office but the current boxes sit only a foot underneath the pitch roof

Do you still steelmline doc?

yeah I've hard good things about the allo, but have yet to research it properly

my cunning plan at the moment is a pi with screen and HiFi Berry Digi+ with each of the 3 items powered by a seperate one of Docs reccomended chinese linear supplies

nice easy one stop shop Stu

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Discrete they aren't but that doesn't phase me

To rip vinyl yes you need an ADC that's another minefield though When you rip a CD your copying the digital 1 and 0 exactly from the disc. Playback Dac aside the resultant file will sound exactly the same as the cd When you rip vinyl you hopefully have a great sounding rig so your signal is great, h...

I can see why you did, on paper at least it should be good

Stu, yes you can get linear PSUs for a computer https://www.hdplex.com/hdplex-fanless-200w-linear-power-supply-for-pc-audio-and-ce-device.html as an example However the beauty of using a NAS is it can be put in another room, or even as in my case on another mains circuit to minimise noise. That said...