Aurender vs. Roon

Fza your post seems rather malicious, this video has been proven to be bunk  and has been discussed before. The video has also been discredited as a smear campaign by a guy who discredits much of the industry, The same guy who rails against profit and over charge, sells is own line of very expensive cables which cost very little to make, yet are priced at many times the cost of his materials, where is the integrity in that?

Back to your video points to consider:

One:  looking at a products guts on line does not verify the sound quality of the piece.

Two: OCD facts are wrong, the MK III units all use a custom mother board, custom power supplies, proprietary software, their own very high quality USB board with very low jitter in the Statement, ethernet incomming and outgoing filters depending on models, custom cases and footers.

Three: OCD guy never brought a unit to test his comments that he can home brew a comparable unit for less is like postulating my souped up home built Honda racer will smoke a 2019 Porsche 911 Turbo, and even it it did it wouldnt mean that the home built car is reliable, resellable, servicable, and in said example perhaps when you factor in time and parts build the savings on home built unit may not equal much.

Four: The Innous products are some of the highest rated digital streaming products on the market and have been heralded in every review as being great sounding, reilable, products that have been advancing the catagory of digital streamers since they came out and each successive generation is a noticable improvement over the last.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RlCG2fK-abo

Lets see what Mr. Darko a respected reviewer of all things digtial says.

Dave and Troy
Audio Doctor NJ Innous dealers

So, question is, was the video accurate in determining the cost ($600-$700.00) of the innards and or production of unit?  

So, question is, was the video accurate in determining the cost

($600-$700.00) of the innards and or production of unit?  

If it's in the Internet, it must be true, right?

determining the cost ($600-$700.00) of the innards and or production of unit.  It could very well be that the internal components of the Innous does not go above $500-600.  However, a HUGE part of the factor is the engineering and R&D to put all these together into a manufacturing process.  Add in the manufacturing of the case itself, which can be somewhat costly.  This cost is increased because these items are not massed produced like a cheap sony bluray player would be.  So, the company has to custom manufacture about a 100 at a time, maybe less.  You cannot send 50,000 units through an automated robot manufacturing process like Sony bluray players.  You're looking at 50-200 manufactured items at a time, probably hand built.

Additionally, there is a huge cost in the development and engineering of the software, which is not anything like a standard JRiver server.  This Innous product also has a custom internal network protocol that allows it to communicate directly to other Innous agent/players (the streaming port).  So we are looking at probably a minimum 2-3+ years of software development labor.  Part of this is wrapping the software into an automatic O/S, probably a thin version of Linux or similar.  This is NOT an out-of-the-box Windows installation.


So, this is a DLNA type music server.  It does require a "DLNA type renderer/player device or a USB DAC.  For pricing, it is comparable to other players, such as Bryston BDP-3 or any Aurender or Auralic type device.


In comparison, I think Bryston puts together about 20-30 devices at a time during their manufacturing process at their factory.
While OCD Guy does have some good ideas if somebody wants to create a "freeware" self-built self-engineered Windows/Linux server, it requires a level of computer/software/electronics skill and it is not going to be a "black box" with the specific features of the Innous.

As far as his rant on "big processor is better because it's faster", for a music server, there really isn't a whole lot of CPU processing that is done, even on a custom implementation of JRiver, so the engineering choice of their specific CPU choice should be just fine.