Takedown of pricey servers, streamers OCD HiFi guy

@mikepowellaudio thank you for your response.

Seems I have some studying to do beyond reading the posts in this thread.  Computer grung is real and measurable.  Soundings in Denver about 10 years ago was previewing a music server that if memory serves me correctly Boulder Audio helped them design.  Price point at the time was $1500.00 running Microsoft and dBpoweramp for 1tb of storage.  Stick in a CD and the system did the rest.
So just what is that last 10% worth.

I was ripping and streaming on a core duo with 8 gigs of ram about 16 years ago.

So let me see if I get this right.  Computer grung is real but no one seems to be addressing it.  The most important part of this process is ripping.  The reason we used Plextor drives back in the day when they were top notch.

@rego you can argue all you want.  You don't need that much horse power.