Streamers, servers, players - woefully overpriced??

"Melvinjames, you’ve got some pretty impressive connections in Tech Support.  I invoked Moses to help me with my streamer but he was busy with the Jewish Holidays...."

Couldn't stop giggling!

I agree, somewhat.

I enjoy using a Roon Nucleus Plus server.  I could have gotta a maxed out Intel NUC and installed the Roon software and probably saved some coin.  But I didn't want to mess with that.  As well, the Roon version of that seems really upgraded, and the USB ports are "dead quiet".  So, I probably did spend more than I could have, building a server myself, but ended up with more time to enjoy the music.

in_shore, I was being facetious... Anyone, can build a server or streamer on their kitchen table in a few hours... Anything from $99.00 on up... Its just a bunch of parts tossed into a box isn’t it... ;^)

Yup 👍 

My experience with Small Green Computers has been just the opposite. I was getting some issues while running Qobuz on Sonore opticalRendu, so I contacted them. I got a reply from Andrew and Jesus within a couple of hours. We  exchanged 7-8 emails on the issue. The issue was eventually resolved -- turned out to be a problem with my internet connection.