For those of you that leave your gear on like dacs, streamers and SS amps I have a tip to try. Every couple of weeks or so shut them down for 5-10 minutes and then restart. While I don’t understand why, I can say it did something positive to sound quality. A couple of designers I respect told me about this.
music management software, servers, dacs, and network switches need to be re-booted often to clear stored data cashes that will build up and cause issues. all the meta data gums things up. Roon has a ’clear cashe’ button that helps under ’setup’.