In Reply to: 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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