Ghostship
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Decware amps have the ability to be amazing telescopes, or microscopes...
Unfortunately, the Node is just a meh entry-level streamer/DAC. It's electronic components aren't very high quality, the clocks are not very good, it comes with a crappy switch-mode power supply, and there is no galvanic isolation between the dirty streaming side and the DAC, it has a SNR -113dBA, THD+N, 0.002%, native sampling 192 Khz max and 16 - 24 bit depth.
This is perfectly acceptable performance until you hook it up to a Decware which will unmercilessly demonstrate its shortcomings. You could improve the performance a little by investing in a linear power supply.
But, IMHO you have outgrown the Node, and I would recommend selling it and purchasing a superior streamer/DAC, such as the Eversolo DMP A6/Master Ed./A8, etc. And if you can afford it, there are other great options from Denefrips, PS Audio, MSB, etc.
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