Are there any good dealers or online retailers for music servers?

[Nicholas Bedworth]

Where are people purchasing their music servers? Any experiences to report? What's the best way to buy them?

 

[amirm]

I think most people are putting their own together. I have not heard of a retailer specializing in high-fidelity music servers. To be sure, there are a number who sell "media center" type PCs. But none attempt to optimize their audio fidelity as such.

 

[Bruce B]

Probably the best commercial server available that has been tweeked for high-end audio is "Blue Smoke Entertainment". They were playing our DSD files last CES.

Blue Smoke

 

[audioguy]

I purchased my Qsonix directly from the manufacturer.

 

[garylkoh]

Most people I know are building their own, and I've instructions on how to build one, including all the tweaks, freely downloadable from my website. My dealers, as a service to their customers, make use of the instructions and build servers for them. Here's one of them:

http://www.kosmic.us/kosmic-server.html

Unfortunately, he doesn't make any money doing this because of the amount of support he has to give.......

 

[Phelonious Ponk]

Unfortunately, he doesn't make any money doing this because of the amount of support he has to give.......

I suspect he's doing ok with the recommended options.

Tim

 

[Nicholas Bedworth]

How about Goodwin's near Boston? Robert Harley had one of their boxes, driving a BAD alphas as I recall...

 

[RBFC]

Nick,

Not sure if you saw this in another thread:

http://www.mach2music.com/

They are re-working Mac Mini computers to serve as stand-alone music servers. They're local to me, and I plan to drop in soon to check one out.

Lee

 

[amirm]

Did I just read a review about them or some other who had done the same? I thought it was German company.

 

[RBFC]

Did I just read a review about them or some other who had done the same? I thought it was German company.

Amir, I posted a link to them in another thread here. I'll be sure to post any impressions as soon as I can get out of the OR early enough to hear it.

Lee

 

[Jaguar]

I hope to find where people are purchasing them. My company, Jaguar Audio Design, is marketing our servers online now on eBay and Amazon. Feel free to contact me with questions (fork@jaguaraudiodesign.com).

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=230563375098


Cheers,

Darin