Top-end audiophiles will buy anything I guess....

IIRC, Roonlabs themselves stated that the design of their “server” core and network protocols had made the choice of platform irrelevant from the perspective of audio impact
 
Yeah it's just a host service the only way would be if your network or that server cannot read/buffer fast enough.

Course if the end point/media streamer is rubbish sound...say if using cheap android box with poor dac etc. Or if there is resampling going on 44 to 48khz which cannot be disabled due to hardware limitation on the player
 
bloodiedathame said:
Most modern music is recorded onto an iMac or made on a bog-standard laptop with Fruity Loops. Stuff that was recorded analog should be kept as analog as possible. That said, my last two releases were Pro Tools, then wav's to a guy making a vinyl master, then vinyl pressed.
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I have no idea what any of that is, I just press play on Spotify and music goes doof doof - anything else is snek oil
 
Is this in the MM?

I can just imagine it on sale in a hi-fi shop, where people turn up for a demo, probably not with any special DAC, amp, speakers, cables or anything, but sitting there wanting to hand over their credit card whilst looking at the sales assistant and saying to them "hmmm...sounds incredible, much better than the £100K I spent on that CD player, I'll take two". No demo necessary though, people will blindly buy it online.

I wonder what hi-fi people will use it with. Then there's the power lead, obviously it needs a £1000 power cable to go from the wall socket to the device itself, the power quality doesn't degrade at all going the distance from the national grid, their consumer unit to the socket that it's plugged into. Do they then also download a higher quality MP3 from Amazon to play on it?!

Then there's the cost of postage, what the hell do they use for shipping, perhaps a gold plated carrier pigeon!

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Jamauk said:
Is this in the MM?

I can just imagine it on sale in a hi-fi shop, where people turn up for a demo, probably not with any special DAC, amp, speakers, cables or anything, but sitting there wanting to hand over their credit card whilst looking at the sales assistant and saying to them "hmmm...sounds incredible, much better than the £100K I spent on that CD player, I'll take two". No demo necessary though, people will blindly buy it online.

I wonder what hi-fi people will use it with. Then there's the power lead, obviously it needs a £1000 power cable to go from the wall socket to the device itself, the power quality doesn't degrade at all going the distance from the national grid, their consumer unit to the socket that it's plugged into. Do they then also download a higher quality MP3 from Amazon to play on it?!

Then there's the cost of postage, what the hell do they use for shipping, perhaps a gold plated carrier pigeon!

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It'll be insurance, big claim when a driver decides it's a good idea to leave one of these in a Wheely bin or throw it over the garden fence.

EDIT: What's going on, I'm a fat dude.
 
Still seems excessive, especially given the cost of it you would have thought the postage would be included, although I suppose if you’re prepared to pay that much for it and be taken in by their marketing then you won’t care about spending an extra €500, then there’s the 8 weeks you have to wait for it to actually arrive.

I suspect you would then have to pay import taxes on top of that.
 
In 3 years time it will need replacing.. and windows will surely need constant updates.. probably at the most inconvenient time..

Passive cooled i7 and jobs a goodun
 
NickK said:
In 3 years time it will need replacing.. and windows will surely need constant updates.. probably at the most inconvenient time..

Passive cooled i7 and jobs a goodun
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With that cooling system "We estimate that our custom solution will lead to a prolonged component life between 4 and 12 years extra, depending on the use and environment conditions"

What is the average component life?
Between 4 and 12 years, rather a non-specific timeline, especially on the caveat of depending on use and environment conditions.
Not using Windows, it's a custom operating system that only has basic features...apparently!

Edit, my mistake:

Custom Windows 10 Enterprise,
LTSC 2019 OS, Roon playback software.
 
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Jamauk said:
With that cooling system "We estimate that our custom solution will lead to a prolonged component life between 4 and 12 years extra, depending on the use and environment conditions"

What is the average component life?
Between 4 and 12 years, rather a non-specific timeline, especially on the caveat of depending on use and environment conditions.
Not using Windows, it's a custom operating system that only has basic features...apparently!

Edit, my mistake:

Custom Windows 10 Enterprise,
LTSC 2019 OS, Roon playback software.
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I suspect the “custom” windows licence costs a fair penny and so too does the operational and securing patches..
 
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