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A principle guiding the wise audiophile life

There is one law, or best said a principle, guiding the wise audiophile life :
 
What matter is not the gear pieces price or his design, it is up to our budget limit to pick the right stuff for ourselves and our needs.
 
What matter is the way we installed together the mechanical,electrical and acoustical working dimensions of any chosen system/room...
 
As a consequence of this principle this is his corollary:
 
The mechanical electrical and acoustical controls,devices,tweaks, parameters, cannot be replaced by one another  if we want to reach an optimal result in sound quality.
 
Vibrations/resonance controls cannot replace or be replaced by acoustics parameters controls or EMI shielding and grounding for example.
 
The greatest error we can do is buying and  just "plug and play". Then upgrading a piece part by frustration or dissatisfaction, without learning how the whole system may,must,can behave in a  specific room for our specific ears (psycho-acoustics).
 
The other error will be to cure one problem with a gear upgrade before trying to understand what is the problem. 
 
 
This must be meditated by  any beginners before "upgrading" and after "upgrading"...
 
 There is no relation between a piece of gear or a system/room before and after his optimal mechanical,electrical and acoustical installation. None.
 
It is the reason why reviews do not tell all the truth there is to be tell ...
 
This resume what i have learned. 
 
What have you learned yourself ?
mahgister

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rbstehno
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This is why I will never use rock on their server or on mine. 
IMO, it’s foolish to take all of the Linux diagnostics out of the OS like rock did to save a couple cycles, and that’s why nobody will never know what is causing any problem you have.

If I’m wrong, can you tell me how much cpu usage % while running? Are you swapping/paging? How much of the mEmory are you using? Any disk/ssd errors? Ethernet/network errors? I have close to 4TB of music on my server.

I’m using Mint Linux for Roon and I have hundreds of diagnostic commands and tools to see exactly what is going on in the OS. I’ve ran Roon on OSX for years and I also had many diagnostic tools/commands to diagnose any problem I might have.

The OP and many others for years have reported problems they were having and most posters indicate that they think upgrading to the bigger server is what needed. This could be a foolish move because you don’t know what is causing the problem.

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