$30,000 Music Streaming Server is the Next Audiophile Dream Device

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If you can find those EU made components and EU made TV's do wake me up Are you replying to the right topic though?

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Everything except motherboard, chips, CPU.

 

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Trust, Logitech, beQuiet, Fractal design, Phanteks, GoodRam, Arctic, Xilence, EKWB, Nuctua, Senheiser, Beyerdynamic, Steel Series, Philips, Kruger&matz, Thomson,...
Everything except motherboard, chips, CPU.

If an aggregate 5% of those concerns' products are manufactured in the EU, I will be flabbergasted.

 

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Storage starts at a modest 2 TB but can be expanded to 64 TB using PCIe modules that connect directly to the CPU, bypassing traditional SSD limitations. Taiko claims this achieves speeds up to four times faster than conventional SSDs, resulting in "black backgrounds" and "huge space rendition" that supposedly rivals high-end vinyl and tape systems.

lol that aint affecting the sound quality. what really improves it is having a DAC outside the chasis. that's all you need for good sound. If you want a good server just get a dell poweredge R730 for 250-550USD and you're golden.

 

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Right?! This breaks about 76448 audiophile rules in the book just to begin with. But that is exactly why it is so revolutionary! It fixes 76448 problems you didnt have!


These are CPUs dedicated to load balancing man. Its like RT except on an audio stream: a huge performance hog for an interchangeable result

I bet one CPU each for the L and R channel. Running at identical clocks all the time, otherwise Id feel cheated! You gotta love the audiophile logic they applied. Its literally a 30K noob trap!


You missed a key point here. You cant show off or brag about your tickets for Slayer.

Hack-a-day...carrots

So, to go along with this insanity, I propose an "organic transmission device" to add a more natural sound quality to the streaming of 1s and 0s. The carrot is used, but I'm guessing we could get almost any root vegetable, so a purple potato is my suggestion of choice. Though to mimic how screwed up this is, maybe use an eggplant instead?

ba-dum-tish


Thank the good graces of the universe I'm not a comedian.

70% on 12 V rail would be achievable at a reasonable cost. But rich audiophiles shouldn't be bothered by reasonable things. The correct answer is a class A power supply with an efficiency of up to 25%.


300 concert tickets later, you'll either prefer a $30,000 amplifier or a $30 amplifier, depending on your favourite music genres in the years past. $29,970 is a lot of money saved.

I'm taking this as a joke....because I think all of us understand that this is not the product of a well balanced mind. I frame my retort with facts because my sense of humor is busted, others use humor to highlight to folly. I think we can all dig the fact that this kind of stuff is lizard people riding non-extinct versions of Nessie in the hidden lakes of Mars levels of silly.

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A class A power source would be absolutely vital if the information was stored as an analog value, transmitted as an analog value, and was thus never a finite digital value. The silliness here is that they are supplying clean and continuous DC power to a processor...that then sends a stream of digital bits. Said bits generally have some minor form of parity to make sure they are as transmitted...so the idea that a constant power supply is necessary instead of a power supply that switches so fast it is functionally constant. It's that special brand of "I have more money than sense" that leads people to put a racing exhaust on an otherwise stock Honda Civic.

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The silliness here is that they are supplying clean and continuous DC power to a processor...that then sends a stream of digital bits. Said bits generally have some minor form of parity to make sure they are as transmitted...so the idea that a constant power supply is necessary instead of a power supply that switches so fast it is functionally constant.

TCP or UDP definitely do not send a stream of bits. Both send packets. Hell, even USB actually sends packets