Boy, you beat me to using more than one HYPSOS psus 
that’s my plan down the road for my upstream 12V fiber switch
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If anyone here is using a low mass small form streamer with a heavy/unwieldy power cord, try this DIY mod:
with
and
end product:
Put it on top of the streamer and listen, have fun 
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My MK2 pops at the end of a track and clicks when the next track starts. However, it is such an improvement in sound quality over the MK1 that I will keep the MK2 with hopes that future software upgrades will fix the problem. One thing is noticed is the software version on my MK2 is 2.3.6 and on the website it downloads a different version.
After giving up on Airlens and Stack link
I got a Silent Angel Munich M1T with F1 Power supply
I2S to MKII
I like it
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N1 - Melco Audio (melco-audio.com)
N50 - Melco Audio (melco-audio.com)
The idea of high end vibration resistant, gavalnically isolated file server / streamer / LPS in the same box looks appealing!
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My dealer also suggested Ifi Zen Stream as a startup streamer together with the MK2 Dac, but with a spdif (coax) cable instead of USB. Is there any good reason for using spdif insted of USB?
In the MK2 manual it says that TOSlink is handling up to 96kHz, 24 bit and USB is 705,6 kHz and DSD256.
USB is obvious capable oh handling higher resolution files than the coax.
If the Zen Stream is capable of streaming higher resolution than limited by the coax input, could it be that the USB input is more noisy?
Not on the MKII. Ted has done a ton of work to make that interface very good. Get a good USB cable (many talks on that here in other threads) and use that instead.
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The cable looks nice though, understand why the dealer wants to sell it 
I also read somewhere that Spdif not passes DSD files. So if I have DSD files on a hard drive and running Roon Rock i will not be able to play them through the Spdif input on the MKII.
Am I right?
Maybe best to go for a good USB cable instead🤔
Correct. Although Toslink can go as high as 24-192, you will only get up to 24-96 with the MK2. With USB on the MK2 you can go much farther to DSD256.
I switched from I2S link to USB link on MK2, and the sound is phenomenal! There’re a lot more quality cables to choose from too.
I tried both USB and Coax with the same model Inakustik cable and heard no difference so go with the output that best suits your needs.
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@Francesco_De_Palo Hi, thought I would paste your post from the Holo Red thread over here too. Looks like the 3D Lab Nano is also a Pi-related product for consideration here generally. Hopefully I am not breaking any forum rules!
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Have not received it yet.
Are there any Lumin users in this forum? I wonder how their operation system works in the streaming chain. I plan to use Samsung SSD t7 for playing local files, plus Qobuz and Tidal for streaming. The new Lumin U2 looks interesting.
Whew…. TMR had an open box Aurender N200 up last night, but when I logged in this morning it was gone. Haha not sure how strong I would have been if it was still there.
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The U2 looks like a scaled down version of my Esoteric N-03T. The features are nearly the same. Even use the same Lumin App. The Esoteric goes a bit further with the Master Clock input and separate power supplies, one for the network module and one for the other digital circuits, and also uses a super capacitor capable of one billion uF capacitance that suppose to have a dramatically increase in sound quality. It does sound much better than my Former Aurender N-10, probably because of the much better power supply. Most of the area is taken up by the power supplies.
A thousand farads?
That’s a lot of Leyden Jars!
Yes, that’s what Esoteric claims.
[The Esoteric N-03T is equipped with two large independent toroidal transformers, one for the internal network module and one for the other digital circuits, enabling the ideal supply of power to each circuit block. Unlike a standard switching power supply, these large linear power supplies are made with high quality components such as large filter capacitors and Schottky barrier diodes. The dedicated power supply for the network module also has an EDLC (Electric Double-layer Capacitor), a super-capacitor that has 1F (1,000,000μF) capacitance. These provide a dramatic improvement in audio quality.]
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