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Roon Software Discussion ROCK

danny (Danny Dulai) February 15, 2018, 5:21pm 11

John_V:

I imagine you’ve answered this before, but comparisons of ROCK vs. Linux NUC with Roon Server? ROCK has skinny Linux (benefit: low CPU). Got that much. Anything else?

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