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Bought a $65 SSD kit that came with torx tools and an enclosure for the old drive. Just wanted to follow up and say thanks to all who graciously offered help on this project. I wrote a 200 page thesis on a 16mhz machine with 8meg of ram and 40meg hard drive, how times have changed. My ancient old macMini is a marvel, and the supercomputer in my pocket is unbelievable. What used to be done on a DEC or a Sun workstation that cost as much as a house, can now be done on a $3 system on a chip.

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IF you do get it, try the trial and see how it works for you.Īs an old guy who was doing computational fluid dynamics in the 80’s and 90’s, all these computers these days are just stupid fast.

So if your needs are reasonable, you could be fine. So other than Roon it wasn’t doing much heavy lifting.

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My mac mini is headless and acting as a web and file server for our house and it torrents british TV shows. It could be a tiny bit more snappy than the mac, but certainly not significantly so. I bought a NUC8i5 when I paid for roon and moved to it. I would stream to up to two zones at a time and didn’t do DSP. I have a library of about 33000 tracks and it worked well for me. I used a 2010 mini (with SSD and 16gig ram) as my core when I was doing the demo before I paid for roon. Interested to get people’s thoughts on which of these ideas might work better… or if either will yield an appreciable improvement over my current situation. The only catch there is I live in an apartment and there’s no way to run Ethernet to the stereo rack, so any network bridge would need to be connected to Ethernet via an apple airport express that I already own, or be WiFi enabled on its own.Įither of these options would be followed at some point by a major MQA-capable DAC upgrade. One thought is to put the mini in the rack, with a wyred4sound recovery or similar usb isolator/reclocker and possibly a diy linear power supply like the teradak.Īnother is the mini on the Ethernet switch in another room, with a streamer/bridge like the Allo or Micro Rendu in the rack. If so, what’s the best setup, assuming I’d put another $350-ish toward accessories? I’d rather spend money on cartridges and records.īut recently a friend offered me a mid-2010 Mac mini for free, which has filled my head with all sorts of diy ideas, so I’m posting to the community for advice:įirst, is a mac mini with a 2.4 ghz core 2 duo a feasible Roon core? Since the computer is free I’d throw $150 at installing a 256GB SSD and 16 GB ram. I’ve thought about upgrading my digital rig, but I’m about 95% vinyl and have probably 15x more invested in my analog setup, so I’ve never been able to justify pulling the trigger.

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The machine is still used for various other purposes and has a lot of other software and files on it.

This runs roon core, streams Tidal and has a smallish FLAC/mp3 library on the built in 256GB SSD. My current setup is simple compared to many here – 2013 macbook air, OS sierra, core i5, 8GB ram.

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