Those of us (well me!) who lack a dedicated room for our audio toys have to share the entertainment space with the entire family. In my situation, I use a Mac Mini with an attached Thunderbolt array to store all of my music and my other iTunes library for movies etc. I know of no current product (that I can afford) that would allow me to remove the computer entirely from the equation and serve up both music and video to the house as the Mini currently does. Innuous comes pretty close but speaking with them in Munich, I would have still needed to leave the Mini in the system.
Sure I can kludge a few products together to get what I need but it's not going to sound much better than what I currently have and it will most likely be a lot harder to use. Between Roon for music and AppleTV for everything else things work pretty seamlessly and have been bulletproof in that in 3 years i have had one drive replacement and no major computer glitches for a system that is on 24/7.
Verdict for now is that an audio server just isn't worth it right now, and the Mac will stay in the system for now.
Beau
Beau,
In which way the Innuos wouldn't work for you? I've picked up the line, and I'm *really* impressed by it. Sound quality, build quality, ease of use, features, it's all there!
They have specific models for movie serving, which I haven't explored yet, but I will, since there's a lot of demand for that. So I'm curious about how it wouldn't work for you...
Thanks
Alex