PSU mod complete including the dampening material that comes with it, will let it warm up until the evening to have more impressions but process was quite easy and I translated their document from German to English with Google Docs and that helped a lot.
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Man, Iāve been super confused these past few days. Upgrading to the g2 has been an improvement for sure but Iāve been getting very mixed results enough to skew any impressions I have of anything. Both have the upgraded psu btw.
On one hand all the technicalities and lower noise floor have been noticeably improved over the g1 (especially the USB input), but the g2 sounds flat in stage and dynamics like a cardboard box. This didnāt make sense to me since the upgraded psu should have resolved those issues as it had for me with the g1. This was using lightning ds, their own app, which ime sounds the best. I didnāt have this problem at all with the g1 using lightning ds as wellā¦
Then I got around to trying airplay to listen to some of my blu-ray live performances and click. I was getting the stage and dynamics I was used to on the g1 (but better), albeit with a bit of harshness that probably comes from using airplayā¦
So I went to the stock music app on macos using airplay and had no problems with stage and dynamics, then switched back to lightning ds playing the same song and although the playback quality was superior, the flat stage and dynamics came backā¦
Iām really just dumbfounded lol. The usb hub I use for local files must be holding it back quite a bit. Itās the only possible thing I can think of thatās causing this. I hope that usb hub Iām getting from dbCooper will solve my issuesā¦
To be continued 
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Little update: tried tidal via lightning ds and no problems, sounds good 
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Happened to fit perfectly under the isolation platform!
This is as elegant of a solution i can come up with. Final resultā¦
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@M0N did you have any trouble playing dsd files from your 2.1, if you still remember?
On the app it indicates dsd but on my DAC it outputs to 176k. Iām using AES which afaik supports 1bit dsd (same situation with USB). I donāt have any upsampling or eq or volume control, etc on either, so not sure why Iām not getting native dsd, unless Iām missing a setting or something.
It technically wonāt be native dsd with aes/spdif, it would be DoP instead. Regardless, still dsd lol. Does it show the high sample rate on both the auralic and the dac? Is this through their own software or through roon? Honestly didnāt really mess with dsd on the auralic when I had it much, since the Kassandra only can handle pcm
Ah gotcha, itās not a huge deal but I am puzzled why Iām not getting it. Iām using their lightning DS software which shows it outputting dsd 1.2ā¦(something forget the numbers), while on the DAC it says PCM 176. And on the DAC manual itās supposed to indicate if itās receiving PCM or dsd.