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In Reply to: RE: About time posted by fmak on June 16, 2016 at 09:15:26
"...well designed boxes fed with carefully set up operating systems"
Just out of curiosity are you running a commercial optimized system these days or your own optimized computer with your own carefully set up operating system?
The $6500 USD Playback Designs Syrah Server in the review is based on the Intel NUC with a stripped down Windows 10 Pro OS and the popular JRiver player. Kind of spendy for what is essentially an Intel NUC PC and some tweaks. But that's just my opinion.
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Considering the number of hours one has to invest to produce such a thing.
In fact, one could make the argument that on might be better off starting from scratch rather than taking the time to optimize a production PC and production OS like Windows 10.
In fact, for the DAC that's what Playback Designs did, opting for an FPGA solution rather than an off-the-shelf DAC chip.
Like I said in another post below, there are pluses and minuses to each approach. Personally, I don't have $13,000 for a NUC PC and a DAC.
but I do understand why a NUC PC in a shiny box running stripped down Windows 10 MIGHT require a bit of tweaking and development work such that it would require a relatively high asking price for such a limited sized market.
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