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ARE AUDIOPHILES OVERLY SENSITIVE BY NATURE?FEELINGS AND OPINIONS?
Do you catch how stupid is your self serving claim ? Same to you and your tweaks, fella. The only "real" insensitivity I see around here is when faith is challenged. Enjoy some music.  
Combo Streamer/Headphone Amp
Consider a miniDSD SHD Studio. (Qobuz, Tidal, Spotify, Pandora, Roon+) You’ll have to research the HP amp power. It has plenty for my planars.  
ARE AUDIOPHILES OVERLY SENSITIVE BY NATURE?FEELINGS AND OPINIONS?
Two types of sapiens.  Those who have faith in unproven BS. OR Those who know nonsense when they see it.  
Warm Up Time/Cost of Operation
Can you hear a difference or is it just infernal bias? If you are the least concerned with wasting electrical energy I recommend a Kill A Watt. All other methods of calculus are merely guessing.  
How best to arrange cables in this room...
Can you run a speaker cable under the floor?  
Primer on SSD and internal hard drives
A more common issue is size constraints.My first streamer did not support any greater than a 1/2 Tb SSD. All memory could go at any time. When your PC freezes it's a warning For warranty they make you send it on your dime and then it's gone fore... 
Primer on SSD and internal hard drives
Unclear question. Do you mean the diff between SSDs and spinners? SSDs plug right into sata transport protocols. There is no such thing as a "sata drive". You can plug an old IDE spinner into sata with an adapter.  SSDs plug into USB with a $9 ca... 
Denafrips Pontus 2 Price increases
Pay to play.  
Deoxit Gold...Not Just For Tubes?
Helps with PC connections.  
Is there miracles in audio experience ?
Miracles are faith no science. Often fraudulent.  
DAC's from the past, are any of them really worth much today?
.... some of the lowest price DAC’s are to be had from yesteryear. WRONG And many new cheapies out perform most of the 20th century designs. Only for enjoying music.  
Looking for intermediate-step Streamer: better than BS Node and not @ Bartok level pricing
I bought 5 improved streamers since I started with a Node. All were under $1K plus power supplies and some PCs. All sound great to me. All require some effort. They all compare well but the secret is NOT comparing A-B. It is the ability to enjoy ... 
Help with Bricasti M3 -
erik +1.  
Help with Bricasti M3 -
Wi-Fi is dependent upon FiOS reliability but not in the signal path. If the internet pukes you lose all control except OFF. You are correct in that there is no discernable difference between DoP and DSD direct playback. You worry too much. Enjoy ... 
Compatibility with Blusound Vault backup
Firewall? A hard drive is just a data reservoir. It only needs to be transferred if it is failing.