The principal reason I raise the Black Gates point is that I had a local guy who is pretty experienced with CDP mods look at the squeezebox and his opinion was replacing a few caps with Black Gates and improving the diodes was going to be more beneficial than replacing the external power supply. In the end I decided to do both. The context for that was only to upgrade the digital out performance and not the analogue section. In total the sound became faster, more extended at the extremes and there was better stage depth, presumably as a result of better detail retrieval.
I am tempted to try the Waveterminal. The only thing that keeps me wedded to the Squeezebox is that devices like the Waveterminal require me to have a monitor going somewhere close if I am going to select music from the listening chair.
I am tempted to try the Waveterminal. The only thing that keeps me wedded to the Squeezebox is that devices like the Waveterminal require me to have a monitor going somewhere close if I am going to select music from the listening chair.