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In Reply to: RE: GRAY AREA - Computers & Hard Disks in the listening room - Pictures posted by AbeCollins on August 26, 2016 at 12:16:37
that only the Aurender uses spinning rust drives - a pair of either 3TB or 6TB drives. The Antipodes uses an SSD.
Perhaps for heroic amounts of money, the Aurender solves the inherent noise issue with its billet of aluminum shield and battery bank. The one I heard in Chicago at chez Brian Walsh certainly sounded fabulous with both PCM and DSD content. Or the curious configuration of removing the internal hard drives and accessing network based drives like streamers.
Seems to me the more elegant (and less costly!) solution is avoiding having to address those challenges. If there's a boulder in my path, I go around it.
Or alternately, requiring a dedicated computer platform that requires kissing your elbow to properly configure for optimum results. :)
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If one's religious convictions demand that specific components like HDDs and computers don't belong near the listening room then these audiophiles should more closely investigate the components used in their commercially purchased music servers.
True, the Antipodes uses SSD, the same Samsung SSD available to anyone, unless they've changed brand recently. Aurender uses SSD and a massive chunk of machined aluminum to cover spinning rust (HDD). Kind of crazy but it looks cool.
Both the Antipodes and the Aurender do in fact use industry standard computer motherboards (per the posted pictures) and the Linux OS, also available to DIYers who want to optimize. The Antipodes incorporates the SOtM USB card which some DIYers have also used.
I'm not saying the high-end audio manufacturers haven't done their homework in getting high quality sonics out of their products along with elegant fit and finish, but it's not like DIYers haven't been doing similar work on their own dedicated music servers.
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