I see some of these responses and some people just don’t understand what a streamer is. A streamer like the Aurender/Lumin/auralic are all computers. A lot of them run linux, who cares? 99% of users of these streamer servers can’t even spell linux, so what can they do to fix these streamers if they have any problems? How are these users going to backup their attached disks? How are they going to restore this data?
Most of these streamer manufacturers claim you need all of this cpu power to handle streaming services or large ssd drives for cache. Far from reality. I run multiple Roon endpoints simultaneously and cpu is fairly light.
I’ve ran Roon on both a Mac and on linux, no difference in sq. Put my TB of music on hdd and on ssd with no difference in sq. (Quite a few others have also stated no difference in sq in different operating systems or preference of what media the music is stored on.
The biggest difference you will see in sq is quit using usb to your dac then you can keep your server out of the audio room.
Most of these streamer manufacturers claim you need all of this cpu power to handle streaming services or large ssd drives for cache. Far from reality. I run multiple Roon endpoints simultaneously and cpu is fairly light.
I’ve ran Roon on both a Mac and on linux, no difference in sq. Put my TB of music on hdd and on ssd with no difference in sq. (Quite a few others have also stated no difference in sq in different operating systems or preference of what media the music is stored on.
The biggest difference you will see in sq is quit using usb to your dac then you can keep your server out of the audio room.