I ' ve actually heard they run pretty well on the Schiit stack magni and modi . I use my LCD 2 s through a Modi 2 uber and a Lyr 2 . <| sep |> Not sure if that ' ll be enough for the whole suicide pact <| sep |> I ' m sure the brother has the looks to justify his high standards . <| sep |> Hey , two books to recommend regarding this question Francis Fukuyama . The Origins of Political Order . Dingxin Zhao . The ConfucianLegalist State A New Theory of Chinese History . I don ' t think most historians would call Qin a nationstate , but Fukuyama calls it a modern state . Modern in that sense that the Qin state established itself as the ultimate authority over all parochial interests family , tribe , village , church . Why not nation ? Because nationalism is generally considered to be something that grew along with print culture in Europe . Certainly the subjects of Qin did not consider themselves part of a nation . They were subjects of the Son of Heaven , who ruled all under Heaven , but the state had no definite boundaries , and certainly did not correspond to the perceived homeland of an ethnic group or people . They may have considered themselves Huaxia , , which I understand to be the broadest possible designation of culturally Chinese people , inclusive of the ancients as well as , perhaps , the moderns who would accept the label , or Hua people . But neither Qin nor any of the Chinese states was considered to belong to or correspond to the Huaxia in the sense that people think of nationstates today . Regarding the question of what Chinese means , I ' d recommend Mullaney et al . Critical Han Studies .