I guess we are being infiltrated by the minions of AudioPhool Style. Seems like the higher up the hifi chain you go the more disconnected with listening to music you become and listen to the hifi more and become obsessed with noise. Sad thing that.
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Youâre evidently a very poor judge of character.
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Maybe you can help by providing genuine facts.
In the whole thread I only hear subjective rants and not a single hint to facts.
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Iâd venture that every Extreme music server owner has had a NUC, Nucleus, SGC or similar as their Roon Core before buying an Extreme. And most Extreme buyers auditioned before purchase. Yes, itâs expensive. But in general the best stuff is.
And Iâll bet every one of you bashing the Extreme has never even heard it.
So instead of make snide, negative, price related and unfounded comments about it go listen to it first. Listen to what it does to Roon âŚand then come back and post founded commentsâŚ
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Another (probably unpopular) perspective: Bandcamp is offering 100% of revenue to artists on Fridays through July. I spent $100 yesterday, about 1/5th of the cost of my ROCK server (NUC with a ZeroZone LPS). Money very much needed by musicians and labels, esp at this time. I wonder how many with $24K servers spent $4800 on new music yesterday instead of listening over and over for almost imperceptible changes on that one Dire Straits track, thinking perhaps if they go with a $2k power cable instead of the $1k they already have it will be that much better? (and yes, Iâm generalizing so donât get TOO insulted).
I really do think far too often hi-end hifi has totally lost the plot in regards to actual enjoyment of music (and FTR Iâm one of those crazy people that hears a difference between ethernet cables and switches on my âlowlyâ $6K total system).
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I donât need to and can not hear a server. It would be like tasting a pot to judge the quality of a meal.
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Your lossâŚ
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Listening for the sound quality of a music server is like dancing about architecture.
AJ
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Itâs a windows server you canât âhearâ it at all. Well except maybe the power on beep!
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I donât doubt it sounds better (I would hope so!) but the question is at what cost? I think to most it seems extreme (pun intended) for the purpose it serves (pun also intended or not). But for those that have everything, and can afford it, I salute you.
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Donât feel it. I love to enjoy the meal and not the pot
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Anyone who would buy something like the Taiko server must be living on inherited money.
Old money 
If my main concern, while building a Roon server, was âRF Noiseâ I would run at lightning speed away from this Taiko Audio box. Itâs an RF nightmare. I wouldnât be surprised if the âBIOSâ fix was to turn off one of the CPUs, underclock the other one, and turn off HT.
Adjusting threads, or processes, to be better distributed across cores is unique to a high core count architecture. I donât see how it is relevant to a Roon Core running on recommended hardware.
Iâm going to go underclock my Roon server and reduce the core count to 1 now. Things will load slower but, according to what Iâve put together from this thread, my system should sound as good as a $24,000 server. Although, I could also ask my neighbor to host my Roon Core and use Wifi to reach it. The distance should eliminate any RF within the Core. Thanks for the suggestion.
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I absolutely cannot wait for being able to run Core in AWS and Amazon gets flooded with âaudiophilesâ demanding âlow noiseâ instances. Or the endless debates on which cloud provider sounds better. My bets on Oracle. Us Audiophiles might just save big red. Oh, the headlines that would make.
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What makes you think Amazon wouldnât provide such instances? For a markup, of course.
@Charles_Peterson. I promise you after my 4th Mccallan the band is playing in my family room. LOL.
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Sadly, I gave the sauce up a couple of years back, probably forever. But I know the feeling (maybe all too well)!