{/sarcasm}
The silk fibers, formerly embedded for superior sound, don’t cut it any more!
Now, synthetic composite electrolytic mica paper, newly developed AI-Foil and formation methods are the hot stuff of the day.
All these new developments culminate in a bright, smooth, clear and far-carrying sound field with a quality sense hitherto not realized.
Some of the range now even sport lead wires of oxygen-free copper to further reduce distortion, finally making high resolution sound quality a reality!
All these adjectives are excerpted from the flowery descriptions in the catalogue, arranged by me for better appreciation. {sarcasm/}
I have a discontinued Signature Sonore Music Server with their Deux power supply. Basically, a fanless Intel dh77df Mini ATX board with SOtM USB card and SOtM SATA power filter. Originally it had vortexbox 2.2 on a 3TB music drive. I installed an 80GB half size SSD card for the boot drive and a 6TB music drive. I upgraded vortexbox to latest version at the time 2.4
All was well until I tried to install vortexbox 2.5 beta. Instead of going back to version 2.4, I tried Roon Rock and it worked. I upgraded the SSD card to 128GB. Pic kind of dark. Hard drive sits in an aluminum heat sink enclosure.
Purchased used, so I cannot verify if PS was as delivered by manufacturer.
If those really are the original innards of the power supply, I’m officially shocked by the poor craftsmanship of the manufacturer.
Especially the breadboard linear supply and AC wiring job…
ROCK installed on a 2012 Apple Mac Mini with Intel Core Duo dual-core Intel i5.
This Mac Mini is so old it only supports MacOS “Lion” 10.3 and was effectively useless.
Initially it didn’t work due to a network error but plugging in a $20 Cisco/Linksys USB Ethernet adapter solved the issue.
I only use Tidal with no high use of DSP when I listen and despite the older hardware, I get 70-90X “processing speed” when listening.
My initial Google searches on if ROCK would work on a Mac Mini didn’t look too promising but I’m happy to have gotten it working… and working well.
As stated above I have built a successful roon rock computer using b550i Mobo and Ryzen 5600g CPU. Unfortunately I required a USB dongle for Ethernet and roon would not recognize the HDMI port. Can someone please confirm if a b450i Mobo would work given it’s 1gb lan and HDMI 2.0 (as opposed to HDMI 2.1).
I have a 2014 Mini which I’m tinkering with 2.6 gHz i5 256 SSD. Big Sur installed so drive is APFS. Tried the method you describe. Choices are boot drive or Windows. Selecting Windows displays no bootable device. Waiting does not show other options.
I just installed ROCK on my Mac mini from the usb boot image. Installed fine but it didn’t boot all the way into Roon due to network error. Adding the basic USB network card fixed it.
The boot drive or the USB? Already formatted the USB as MS-DOS FAT and flashed it with balenaEtcher. Formatted the USB as FAT-32, when it’s flashed it becomes FAT-16.
others have done so I assume the steps are good, not sure what you missed. MSDOS partition might be it, I did this quite some time back and the system as I noted needs a manual boot via option key held down and a monitor too…also the ethernet via USB too
AMD 5600g on 450m mobo supports roon rock but NO HDMI. Back to the drawing board. Will try a Linux install. Otherwise what is the most recent intel chip supporting roon rock and HDMI?
The only reason for HDMI with ROCK is to witness the installation process and note the IP address of the finished installation. None of that is ever needed again unless you get a fault. I’d just get a remote set up on phone or tablet and go from there.