Best streamer to replace my Mac Mini?

a 432 EVO standard at $3500 would be a great choice it is a high end server with a built in cd ripper, was designed as a Roon core, and it can be upgraded to a higher preforming server because a;; 432EVO servers are designed around a modular platform.

Dave and Troy

Audio intellect NJ

432EVO dealers

Bruno your comment doesn't make any sense the evos are as well built as an innous or many other servers

our aeon outperformed the more expensive Aurender n12 and matched or bettered a 25K Innous Statement next gen, so in terms of performance we deliver

Dave and Troy

Audio Intellect NJ

432Evo dealers

missti.

This client was venting his frustration when things didn’t go his way.

He was told by us, the importers of the server, to ship the server back to our offices and he was upset that he wasn’t told how to repair his server himself. So to save 150, in shipping costs he went to the forums for repair advice,

Even worse, he used an unauthorized power supply, when 432evo clearly states you must use our supplied power supply, as the product has been tested with the s-booster,

Other power supplies, even with the same voltage, may not have a power tip which fits correctly, this alone, can cause issues with the server’s functioning and reliability

We stand beside our product, so does the manufacturer,

If you purchase a product from anyone and you are told how to use it, then you don’t follow the manufacturers instructions and or recommendations, and the product fails, it may be your own fault.

Face the truth, and do not seek blame where it doesn’t belong.

We offered to repair it no matter what happened to the product or the cause.

The client is mad that our upgradable starter server is not crammed with expensive parts, {(the higher end models do., which accounts for their higher cost and exemplary performance).

When the ASR members looked up the parts cost, and were told these parts aren’t expensive they don’t understand that the operating system alone, took five years at a considerable cost, to get the server to sound great. Not to mention, that parts' cost alone doesn’t correlate to the final sales price, as dealers and manufacturers, need to budget in service costs and the required costs required to run a company.

When you consider all of these points, there are always two sides to every story.

Sincerely

Dave and Troy

audio Intellect NJ

432EVO dealers

the operating system is completely  custom based does a number of things designed to improve sound quality, for  example Roon or Logitech the music management software runs in its own core of the CPU, while other processes are run in a separate core, and caching files run on yet another core.

The software  also eliminates typical “chaos” found inside the OS of many other servers, by using advanced kernel & process tuning configurations further lowering software jitter by reducing unnecessary computing processes and minimizing noise. This is a remarkable achievement and key to it’s stellar performance.

Using custom BIOS and kernel tuning, the EVO actually shuts down chip functionality on the motherboard, so it acts like a software defined custom motherboard. The big advantage of this approach is that the server is future proof. If faster and/or better sounding main boards become available, the customer will be able to upgrade. We already offer this to existing customers.

We use a custom Realtime Linux OS, refined and tuned by 432 EVO’s owner Frederic Vanden Poel, who is also a senior Linux consultant building with 20+ years of IT experience. The EVO can be on 24/7 and will never run hot, always running cool while sounding analog and very refined.

the combination of custom software, a very quiet and fast motherboard, superb external power supplies, and in the higher end models, a  superb external clock board and USB sound card maximize the servers performance far exceeding the starter Standard.

Dave and Troy

audio intellect NJ

432evo dealers