Are there any good dealers or online retailers for music servers?

amirm

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I think most people are putting their own together. I have not heard of a retailer specializing in high-fidelity music servers. To be sure, there are a number who sell "media center" type PCs. But none attempt to optimize their audio fidelity as such.
 

Bruce B

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Probably the best commercial server available that has been tweeked for high-end audio is "Blue Smoke Entertainment". They were playing our DSD files last CES.

Blue Smoke
 

garylkoh

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Most people I know are building their own, and I've instructions on how to build one, including all the tweaks, freely downloadable from my website. My dealers, as a service to their customers, make use of the instructions and build servers for them. Here's one of them:

http://www.kosmic.us/kosmic-server.html

Unfortunately, he doesn't make any money doing this because of the amount of support he has to give.......
 

Phelonious Ponk

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Unfortunately, he doesn't make any money doing this because of the amount of support he has to give.......

I suspect he's doing ok with the recommended options.

Tim
 

amirm

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Did I just read a review about them or some other who had done the same? I thought it was German company.
 

Jaguar

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