CDC2,
super curious, do you work for the center for disease control? If so, we may have a friend in common!
my Mac mini is also old - vintage 2010, las of the onboard optical drives. I also struggled with it for a while, trying J River, Audirvana, pure music, etc.
Roon was the game changer. No need to do the shared screen thing, Roon works with a controlling device (phone, laptop, tablet) which in turn communicates with the source Mac mini. I leave the Mac on at all times, and set it to restart once a day at 4am, and install any updates automatically. I upgraded the internal hard drive to solid state, and maxed up the ram. Solid!
roon is the best app/software for music that I have ever seen. Sonos has a great app. Roon is better. The fact that they are a software company is significant. They have to keep customers! A hardware makers app doesn't require the level of development and improvements that a software subscription will require. I challenge anyone to use Roon for a month and find better software.
i adore my dac. It is the PS Audio Perfect Wave Dac mkII with Bridge 2. Hard core stuff. $4800 new, can be found for way less of course now as it is showing it's age a little.
The Roon - PS Audio Bridge 2 combo is deadly. Bridge 2 is also available on newer PS Audio products. It allows one to bypass "playing" the music on the computer and instead the Bridge network card "plays" the music. ( need Bridge 2 for Roon). The connection is via Ethernet.
Feel free to call me, I'd be glad to share more details
super curious, do you work for the center for disease control? If so, we may have a friend in common!
my Mac mini is also old - vintage 2010, las of the onboard optical drives. I also struggled with it for a while, trying J River, Audirvana, pure music, etc.
Roon was the game changer. No need to do the shared screen thing, Roon works with a controlling device (phone, laptop, tablet) which in turn communicates with the source Mac mini. I leave the Mac on at all times, and set it to restart once a day at 4am, and install any updates automatically. I upgraded the internal hard drive to solid state, and maxed up the ram. Solid!
roon is the best app/software for music that I have ever seen. Sonos has a great app. Roon is better. The fact that they are a software company is significant. They have to keep customers! A hardware makers app doesn't require the level of development and improvements that a software subscription will require. I challenge anyone to use Roon for a month and find better software.
i adore my dac. It is the PS Audio Perfect Wave Dac mkII with Bridge 2. Hard core stuff. $4800 new, can be found for way less of course now as it is showing it's age a little.
The Roon - PS Audio Bridge 2 combo is deadly. Bridge 2 is also available on newer PS Audio products. It allows one to bypass "playing" the music on the computer and instead the Bridge network card "plays" the music. ( need Bridge 2 for Roon). The connection is via Ethernet.
Feel free to call me, I'd be glad to share more details