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RE: Of being inaccurate ;-)

The fundamental argument was your initial claim that these devices contained no general purpose 'computer' but in fact most of them do and many run popular 'computer' operating systems. I think I eventually proved that to you. Had to pound it into your skull but I think you finally caught on. That was the first fundamental argument and a hurdle you appear to have gotten over.

You then shifted to all the optimizations that the audio manufacturers do to these computers to make their brand name servers and streamers far superior to any other computer out there. But, you can't seem to grasp the fact that many of these optimizations are also being done by DIYers on their own general purpose computers. Hard for you to swallow since you want so desperately differentiate your brand name streamer from a DIY optimized computer.

More proof.... Witness the commercial music servers and streamers that use general purpose motherboards, Intel NUC and other micro-ATX based general purpose motherboards, Raspberry Pi computers, and other ARM Cortex-A9 single board computers. Like it or not, these are all general purpose computers used in a number of brand name high-end audio servers and streamers.

But now you claim they contribute only 10% of the solution. How you peg a number on it is anyone's guess but your goal is clearly to minimize the 'computer' again. Yawn.


Edits: 08/20/16
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