Yes, exactly. But what the el cheapo crowd doesn’t understand is that in the high end world, right or wrong, those manufacturers and customers believe that well engineered, audio specific music servers do sound better than a regular computer and they’re willing to pay big money for those sonic, looks, functionality, quality etc improvements.
That’s how the high end music server market operates. The Titan comes in at the very least expensive tier for high end servers which can stretch up to $30K or more. That’s the market which cares little for what the bits are bits an $89 WiiM Pro is all one needs crowd thinks.
It behoves Roon to make a case for why their server is engineered to sound as good as or better than other servers in the high end market. It’s not just about looks to that crowd. And it matters little whether they are right or wrong about the sonic benefits.
I can say from personal experience that once one hears those high end servers, it’s difficult to argue that they don’t sound better than a computer. Whether or not they’re worth the money for the improvement is a different issue.