TiredOldMan wrote:...capturing the energy of the liquid's motion itself as it travels along the pipe...

What you describe sounds similar to a Stirling engine. Those can indeed be used for generation of electricity from solar.

...To me it sounds logical to use the highest possible, since i can´t see it hurting sound at least... Beware that 192kHz recording/playback is hard to engineer, and thus manufacturers often skimp on quality to achieve it, just so it looks good on paper. Even implemented well it has no tangible adv...

You're not thinking of a linear power supply are you? They aren't very efficient, so it will need to be huge and expensive. PSUs for computers are almost always switching power supplies, which can be far, far more efficient and compact. Unfortunately they are also hard to design and build, and poten...

There are? Foobar and Winamp (via a plugin) are the only two I was able to find. Media Monkey supports it via a Winamp plugin. QCD supports it with a plugin. Media Jukebox supports it. I found those with Google, so I've no idea if they are any good. Really? I didn't know that ... Which cards suppor...

Yes, it's true that other cards are "able to handle" other sampling rates, but unless you're using ASIO or Kernal Streaming, Windows will resample everything to 48 kHz anyway through kmixer. There is almost no point in getting a card that can support >48 kHz unless you are using ASIO. Fortunately t...

They are pretty much the same thing, yes. The bulges you see on some cables just clip over the cable, whereas a toroid (please excuse my spelling errors - only one r in toroid) is a doughnut shape that you need to wrap the wire around. Toroids will generally be more effective than the clip-on ones. ...

Devonavar wrote:...About the only think I can think of that an external card would offload would be the task of resampling the audio to 48 kHz before it is passed to the DAC...

Only Creative cards do something silly like that; other soundcards are generally able to handle other sample rates without resampling.

I'm not sure, but wouldn't the majority of processing involved be decompression of the audio stream, which is something that the CPU would do rather than the soundcard.

Even simpler than a capacitor would be to wrap the +12V wire around a ferrite torroid. This creates an inductor, which impedes AC.

If the case is going to be used in the orientation pictured then you are losing a lot of potential cooling by having the heatsink fins horizontal. They should be vertical for natural convection in order to impede airflow as little as possible. Since radiation is not insignificant for natural convect...

I wish to do away with the CPU fan in my system, so I have been looking at the various fanless heatsinks currently available. Originally I decided on a Thermaltake Sonic Tower, since the information I have gathered suggests that it performs resonably well, plus it is pretty cheap. However I don't th...