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Music Servers-Why so few?

With the explosion of Dacs and discussions of computer audio one would think the server market would flourish as well. Where are all of the "big" names and their offerings? They can certainly produce Dacs. With the exception of Bryston, it seems the small companies are the only ones who offer something and then its a crapshoot as to who will be able to answer an email or have a decent website with useful information. Where are they?
stl114_nj
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bhobba
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I owned an Auraliti and its quite good - but my Mac Mini running Audirvana was clearly better as a source.

The reason I think there are so few Music Servers is a Mac Mini and a Ipad Mini as remote is really good, very convenient, fairly cheap and a lot of work has been done in producing high quality players like Audirvana. Why bother with anything else?

Thanks
Bill
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lalitk
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IMO, Auralic and Aurender pushing the envelope in ease, quality and wide range of price levels. 

The Aurender N100H is practically a 'steal' for anyone wants to own a high quality streamer as an alternate to mac/windows based system.  



mitch2
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Agree with Audioengr, the Antipodes DX was a significant improvement over a pretty good Mojo mini in my system.  Better body, tonal density, dimensionality and quieter.  The DX has two USB outputs, one that is powered and the unpowered output I use since my DAC powers the USB internally.
riffer
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If I had the free cash, I would go with the Antipodes as well into a good USB interface.  Granted, the Antipodes is a glorified Vortexbox with very good dedicated hardware, but there is something to be appreciated about that sort of refinement.

Sadly, new speakers will eat up most of my budget next year.

P.S.  Another Squeezebox Touch into a good DAC user.
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jayrossi13
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I agree with lalitik, at $2700 the Aurender N100 is a steal; it was significant upgrade over my previous Mac Mini/Audirvana/NAS solution. 

The Aurender app is incredibly well thought out, the integration with Tidal is really nice too.  
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