Dedicated Music Server/Player

tomic601  no Pandora yet after the New Year

Here is another option and review from Positive Feedback:

Euphony Audio Summus

@David Ten

I had heard of Pink Faux but in all my research it just did not come up.  No reason just so many others to choose from.  I do like the aspect of knowing who is building my equipment and that probably is a major reason I went with Lucas Audio.  That is similar to my Viking Acoustic Grande Voix Speakers and Canary Audio Amps.  In each case, I developed a relationship with the owner.  BTW, and I know this sounds crazy but all of my equipment was purchased without hearing it first.  A lot of that has to do with my confidence in who is building the equipment.  

WHY do you guys think a dedicated server makes a difference, IF you are using a separate streamer/player that is low noise, and only reads the data off your server (like a NAS)?

I am in the dilemma whether to get an Innuos with its own server, OR host all my music on my NAS server, and send it via Ethernet to a streamer like Aurender or Auralic?! I just do NOT understand, WHY, or HOW a file off NAS over ethernet can sound different, than Tidal stream going to the SAME streamer?!

Paul McGowan thinks NAS is better, as it's isolated away from the player/streamer.

@willgolf   Thanks.