First of all I don't smoke, I assume that was meant in jest? I've had boxes since the early 3000's. Have you tried hooking up to an analogue amplifier through its auxiliary input? I have a Consonance Opera integrated amplifier with 3 inputs at my cottage in Nova Scotia. I run the Formuler through one of the inputs. I can not normally run the amplifier much past 10 o'clock on the gain contro with other inpui sourcesl. On the Formuler the setting has to be around 3 pm. I have my other boxes here in my home hooked up to a Cayin Class A integrated. and it is fine because it has stream input. I also have one hooked up to an Onkyo AV with a stream input. They work fine, I'm assuming just like a receiver that has a phono input the signal from the source gets amplified. The output into the Consonance does not. I run other equipment which have higher signal output through the Consonance with no issues. Hence the question. BTW what is the signal to noise ratio of your speakers? Mine are 86 db at one watt. I believe yours are more efficient than that?
