l see...Special has many meanings

lt's been quiet on the listening front, although l have been keeping grey matter busy.

So l took a pause on the Nord 1ET400A Monoblocks, while l digested Tony's suggestions. I admit at this point,l contacted Colin from Nord Acoustics and inquired with him if he sells 2 longer leads,Power and Ribbon cable,in view of separating the power supply.
Colin said in would sound worse,"Would be of NO benefit and performance would actually be worse" when l ask why he replied "Losses over long cables danger etc.
The SMPS have almost zero radiation. You get more from the cable itself., Example Each individual power transistor is wrapped in copper foil".
Interesting and thankfully l had sheilded the cables already. This lead me to abandon the two box approach,and focus on a box within a box method...

Nord 1ET400A Sheilded by Damien Read, on Flickr

So if you take glance from my last photos, l have introduced a 1.2mm piece of solid copper,and made small holes for the power and ribbon cables to pass through. At the bottom of the case there is a,air vent, this has been covered up with fine copper mesh.

Nord 1ET400A Airflow check by Damien Read, on Flickr

I thought l would show this photo as an example of the copper mesh, it allows light and air flow whilst it's sheilding.

Nord 1ET400A Sheilded Finished by Damien Read, on Flickr

The finished item,if you look closely, l covered the inside of the case on the upper air vents,this also sits on top of the copper divider that separates both components.

l don't know of any Hypex unit on the market that has gone to the lengths,it seems manufacturers just place them in the enclosure together, fingers crossed it will be worth the hassle...Roll on having power!

You're going to have to wait unfortunately....l am waiting on a power reconnection, l have the builders in.

I would go carefully with the upgrades it might be a problem to find out what is causing a issue if a backwards step

Well that's true...Thankfully it's all reversible...
l remain positive, reducing hash and noise normally has a positive outcome,as we both discovered by adding sheilding to components already.

Well you know I can't sit still.....And one positive thing of not having power to listen to my Hi-FI is the amount of HI -FI projects I've finish.
A minor update, but a very positive, and hopefully permanant solution. As you may recall, I have been banging on about how I love the Sound Quality of Volumio 3, but loath it's laggy behaviour,l would been looking for files in folders....Honestly 6 to 8 Seconds to open a folder, before you could play a song!

So I have been on the search for a Linux Based OS Music Program, and thats half the battle, trying to research the good the bad and the ugly. Today I installed Daphile on my old NUC N4000. I have to say,and credit where it's due, Dalphile runs really smooth, instance access to your folders, all album covers displayed straight off the bat,and even the abilty to use a Windows PC and copy and paste your files to the drive. Dalphile has lots of bells and whistles,and it looks like the designer of the software has been slowly refining his software,instead of abandonment
Of course it should do this, but experience begs to differ.

Anyone intersted can take a look at his site www.daphile.com/

Thats great news for myself, with one final test....Can it match Volomio 3 in sound quality....I really hope so

What does it run on, Damien?  Linux?  Or is it self-contained?

Got it - just like Volumio, then.

I hope you get your power back on soon Damien as I’m eager to hear how all your mods turned out.