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I have to agree with rick_m

"Tweaky and buggy" no, tweakable YES. I had my music server set up in no time. It worked great the very first day. The past few weeks have been spent experimenting with tweaks (DAC) to improve the sound quality, not due to any bugs.

"do you turn on your computer and wait 4 minutes for it to boot"

This is a non-issue. I just timed my Mac Mini. It took all of 40-seconds to boot from a cold fully powered down state. But who would do such a silly thing anyway? Just leave it powered up and let it go into "sleep mode" after an hour of inactivity. From "sleep mode", it comes right back up in a second. Same thing for a Windows PC, don't power it down completely.

"I just think that a lot more people will listen to music that way when someone make a box that does all that but doesn't take 4 minutes to boot and comes with redundant hard drives and transparent auto-backup."

There's little magic to it. Anyone can build one, commercially or at home.

Mirroring disks is so easy to do and there are PC's on the market that already include this feature. Good automated backup software can be had for $50 to free. On top of that we are seeing Solid-State Disk (SSD) prices plummet to the point where noisy spinning rust disks will soon be obsolete. Well, maybe in a couple years. A good 250GB SSD can be had today for under $500 retail, chump change to many audiophiles.

PC audio IS ALREADY main stream. I bet there are many users under the age of say 25 who have never bought a CD or a CD player and never intend to.

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