Here is mine:
Mac Mini 2007 (mid year model) $799.00
4Gig mem upgrade $114.00
M2Tech Hiface (BNC) $180.00
Western Digital World Book Edition (horrible naming) 1TB NAS
$229.00
Airport Extreme Router $179.00
ChannlD Pure Music Software $129.00
iTunes (included with Mac purchase)
Total:$1,630.00
As I bought everything as it came out, I paid pretty much retail. But heck, when you can pay $3000.00 for a power cord all day long, I am not complaining.
Not going to include the cost of my dacs, because I owned them already :)
This combination sounds better or as good as any source I have ever owned including a former Wadia 7 and Levison 31.5 as well as many others. I have it connected to a 42" plasma and I also watch Netflix/Hulu and my nearly 250 movies which are on the HDD using PLEX all controlled from my iPhone or iPad.
There is NO reason to buy these so-called Music server which are nothing more (99% of the time) than a repackaged pc runnning XP or Linux. But they want to charge you $20k for them. My system using Pure Music when in memory mode completely buffers the ENTIRE song to memory before ever playing the track.
I am building a second system based on a 2009 Mac Mini with a 400GB SSD drive and 8GB of ram, and it will still be under $2800.00. To quote l.Fishburn from the movie School Daze... Wake UP!!!!! LOL! :)
Mac Mini 2007 (mid year model) $799.00
4Gig mem upgrade $114.00
M2Tech Hiface (BNC) $180.00
Western Digital World Book Edition (horrible naming) 1TB NAS
$229.00
Airport Extreme Router $179.00
ChannlD Pure Music Software $129.00
iTunes (included with Mac purchase)
Total:$1,630.00
As I bought everything as it came out, I paid pretty much retail. But heck, when you can pay $3000.00 for a power cord all day long, I am not complaining.
Not going to include the cost of my dacs, because I owned them already :)
This combination sounds better or as good as any source I have ever owned including a former Wadia 7 and Levison 31.5 as well as many others. I have it connected to a 42" plasma and I also watch Netflix/Hulu and my nearly 250 movies which are on the HDD using PLEX all controlled from my iPhone or iPad.
There is NO reason to buy these so-called Music server which are nothing more (99% of the time) than a repackaged pc runnning XP or Linux. But they want to charge you $20k for them. My system using Pure Music when in memory mode completely buffers the ENTIRE song to memory before ever playing the track.
I am building a second system based on a 2009 Mac Mini with a 400GB SSD drive and 8GB of ram, and it will still be under $2800.00. To quote l.Fishburn from the movie School Daze... Wake UP!!!!! LOL! :)