You need to look deeper. The parts count alone on the lampi and Mikes PC will likely exceed your €3K budget! Then you add software, labour, transportation costs and support. Can you playback Bughead Emperor controlled by JRiver, for example? Do you have an 8TB internal drive? Do you run AO in core mode with a wifi hotspot still enabled? Can you run in full battery mode? And its not a small PC, apparently the Chassis will be huge to accomodate the 9 separate power supplies. Not everybody is included to build for themselves and keep up with the latest software tweaks.
No, the parts are just regular pc parts. There are more then enough shops that built to spec. if you ask, and they will only charge you 50 euro's more to put everything together.
Don't get me wrong, I am not here to bash Lampizator. I am really keen on computer audio, and can only encourage people to participate in this part of our audio hobby.
I took a look at the website and can tell you the following. The mobo is just a normal workstation one, just like the processor. They even use a normal samsung SSD. The case from Streacom, but with their own logo. ECC server memory is also available for everybody. These parts cost actually less then the ones I use.
Nothing is ordinary about it. Most of the parts can’t even be bought in regular computer stores. Even on-line it is very hard to get. So this is a bit far from the truth, but hey, a company has to do some marketing right?
I will show some parts I use, which are more audiophile orientated, and will make a nice difference in SQ.
Mobo: This is also a normal mobo, but with an upgraded clock. A TCXO clock, running on 25,000000MHz. Very precise, and far better then the regular clocks found on all mobo's (also the workstation ones)
SSD: Same story with the mobo, a SSD with an upgraded clock.
USB card: This one runs laps around the JCAT
The dual pc setup I use do run on Windows server 2012, with AO, JPlay, Bughead Emperor. The SSD and Compactflashcard reader setup have their own battery psu, so does the USB card. To power the mobo I use lineair psu's, but could easily switch to batteries. I also use different sata and power cables then stock, they cause quite a bump in SQ.
Regarding the 8TB, I have no use for a disc like that but can easily hook it up if I want. But I don't want it because I built this pc's to be free from mechanical moving parts. Mechanical moving parts are causing electrical noise in the system, and also just noise when you are inches away of it. That's why you do not want a normal HDD or blu ray discplayer in your system. You don't want wifi because that is not a really "clean" connection either. I rather use an "audiophile" ethernet cable that comes with it's own test protocol:
@bonzo75: This is just ethics? I just quoted some sentences that do not really make sense with what I wrote above in mind.
Here it is - our Windows 2012 R2 Server machine that is as no-compromise and as high specs as possible.
Nothing is ordinary about it. Most of the parts can’t even be bought in regular computer stores. Even on-line it is very hard to get. A machine as such can’t be bought anywhere even at much higher price - simply speaking noone makes such machines and especially the real IT people would tell you it is insane.
The mother-board is the best, of professional breed, with guaranteed shop life span of 7 years in case of failure, dedicated to Intel processors and and to the Windows Server 2012 with professional XEON 4-core, multi thread processor (XEON is again a professional line of processors, which enable us to use Windows 2012 and server motherboards and Windows Optimizer).
You can even run Windows server on a Intel Celeron.... And unfortunately all parts are ordinary...
The only thing I can not comment on is the psu, because it is not shown in pictures.