A few comments about this video . It is true that servers are computers and most of the time are built with parts that you can buy of the shelf except for company like aurender,melco,auralic....
This is just a fraction of the cost .Very good power supply are expensive and computer audio requires some very specific and very good psu .
Another big cost is the development cost for a well tuned software. What makes very good digital front end is these three points : the right pc parts ,excellent psu , well tuned software .
with that you can achieve really magical level of sound quality that I felt was impossible to reach with digital audio .
In my own diy efforts server-player , I have about 5k invested in parts only ... I get excellent sq but at a cost .
This is just a fraction of the cost .Very good power supply are expensive and computer audio requires some very specific and very good psu .
Another big cost is the development cost for a well tuned software. What makes very good digital front end is these three points : the right pc parts ,excellent psu , well tuned software .
with that you can achieve really magical level of sound quality that I felt was impossible to reach with digital audio .
In my own diy efforts server-player , I have about 5k invested in parts only ... I get excellent sq but at a cost .