Amberlamps
Formerly known as Phuca
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I was looking at this post last night, and working out how much it would cost, to build such a top end server.
The parts added up to 1770 euros + the case, so diy chasing a TOTL server is not cheap, but you will gain far more experimental knowledge about how to optimise your system, than many of the posters on head-fi.
I can do better, an intel nuc i7 8559u, 16 gig of ddr 4 sodimm, 128gig m2 ssd, akasa fanless case.
£638 all in and I have better specs than a roon nucleus+ which is using the same parts but an older generation of cpu.
I've decided, if this thing can be stuck in a fanless case and made to ****, thats the route i'm going, £650 quid and having a roon core thats silent and always on, it's game on, no way was I gunna trade H2 in and add on 700 ponies for a intel nuc with a fancy case.
If it works for roon, it will work for me, if not, I still have my hugo 2. But roon rock will run on this little bad boy, if not, windows and roon will, thank god for old technet keys. < a good thing that got spoiled.
Ideally, I would like an antipodes, I was checking out whazzzups server today and What, the dude has every right to keep speaking about it, the thing basically does everything that one could ask for. It's a roon core, if you want it to be, it can stream from abc and xyz, it has squeezebox support and a pile of others.
But it's £10 large for the dx version and that is out of my league, even their new cx and ex range starts off at 6 grand for one and 5 for the other and they are meant to be combined. If I had the cash I really would buy that server, why ?
The why is because ? It's because I have looked at servers and streamers all week and it was always a case of give and take, but I wanted it all, and so far, only the antipodes server has it all, there is possibly others but I haven't yet heard about or seen them.
I wish somebody would of mentioned antipodes servers earlier, or even made a thread about them for folks to read, but nobody did, shame on headfi.
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