Long story short, I started a few years ago experimenting with Media Monkey and an original Cambridge DAC-Magic as a FLAC music player combo.
Not really expecting much...boy was I wrong. What seems like about a dozen builds later, moving to J-River and I've ditched ALL spinning disks in the listening room.
The final frontier has recently been trying to find an HTPC computer case that didn't look like a computer case. I'd used a couple Lian LI PC-C37s, which worked fine, but still looked PC-ish.
I'd been keeping an eye on the Streacom cases, used in some of the CAPS builds (Computer Audiophile site) I'd stayed away from these for some reason, one being that they are nasty expensive.
I finally broke down, bought one and popped one of the two existing players i have now into the new case.
I also didn't was to mess around with a power brick, so, I found a power supply that will fit in the 1U case. (and I've subsequently found an even better/smaller one that will replace the one shown in the pictures below)
In the end, the build has far exceeded my expectations. The case is first rate "audiophile" quality. and doesn't look out of place sitting next to other gear.
It's a bit of a hassle with the heat-pipes, but, again in the end well worth it to have an absolutely fanless system.
Motherboard is Asus P8-Z77M, i7 3770s, samsung 840Pro SSD. (in the pictures the Pyro SE drive is installed, but this has been changed out for 128GB Samsung)