News Fanless Music Server for Audiophiles Launched: The Undentia Cirrus7-SE

[Admin]

Undentia's Cirrus7-SE Music Server is a silent PC which can stream your media and be used like a regular desktop PC.

Fanless Music Server for Audiophiles Launched: The Undentia Cirrus7-SE : Read more

 

[gg83]

250gb ssd is enough to hold 1 album in FLAC format. Lol. Would you store the music on a NAS or something and stream it to the "music server"?

 

[OriginFree]

250gb ssd is enough to hold 1 album in FLAC format. Lol. Would you store the music on a NAS or something and stream it to the "music server"?

Even allowing 50gb for the OS, formatting and other software that leaves 200gb.
Assuming that's 200GB, that is one Loooooong album.

 

[krimarai]

What's so music oriented about it? If it came with preinstalled good audio card, amplifier, and cheaper CPU to balance out the cost it would be more reasonable to call it audiophile's music server.

 

[Nick_C]

An audiophile and their money are soon parted - just organise a sighted listening test, bump the "better" system's output by a few tenths of a dB, then enthuse about all the things that can be "heard" in its output.... 😉

250GB is enough to hold around 28 days of CD sourced FLAC.

 

[hallby81]

What's so music oriented about it? If it came with preinstalled good audio card, amplifier, and cheaper CPU to balance out the cost it would be more reasonable to call it audiophile's music server.

That's exactly what I was thinking. Where is the included external sound card (lets face it, this thing isn't going to get an internal card). Its a stretch at 1800 dollars to call this a "music" media center.

 

[gg83]

Even allowing 50gb for the OS, formatting and other software that leaves 200gb.
Assuming that's 200GB, that is one Loooooong album.

I was exaggerating. 1 album is about 1gb at 24-bit. Its very easy to hit 200gb with a halfway decent music collection. I hit a tb when AudioGalaxy was around.

 

[Wtcher]

What's so music oriented about it? If it came with preinstalled good audio card, amplifier, and cheaper CPU to balance out the cost it would be more reasonable to call it audiophile's music server.

Adding an audio card and amplifier would limit it as an audiophile device (though yes, it would turn it into an all-in-one media device). At the high end, audiophiles include people who have already spent 7 figures on the amp by itself.

Keep in mind the audiophile industry has people buying thousand dollar rolls of CAT6 (I've seen it in person... alright, it was $999 for ten or twenty feet, I think?) and thousand dollar audiophile-grade PC power cables (yes, from your wall outlet to your PC; https://www.gcaudio.com/products/category/power-cords/ has a selection).

I've also witnessed people eschewing optical cabling because "the light bouncing around in the cladding introduces delays".

 

[Fleshharrower]

Hi friends. This is a solid waste of money. I run my own Intel NUC with an external HDD array with 6TB of raid 1 storage. The NUC itself is a few generations older and i5 based but it was less than $400 . The Roon Rock OS itself is free but the subscription is either $12.99 USD per month or $699 per year. I don’t use Roon myself as I have windows on the box and use it to serve my old DVD and CD rips (from my library). Frankly most of the time the box is playing Amazon HD Music streams these days as both the convenience and quality are there.
For a sound card...as an audiophile, we usually use an external DAC via USB or coax/to slink then into our external amp(s). In my case, this part of the setup is where the money went.

 

[jose81216]

All the respect to the people who designed this, but I honestly don't thing it was intended for audiophiles or media server. They could had cut the CPU to 2C/4T and pump the storage to at least 2TB NVME or SSD drive. Also where is the DAC? I'm confused why are they calling this an Audiophile music server.

 

[spongiemaster]

Also where is the DAC? I'm confused why are they calling this an Audiophile music server.

Any audiophile looking to use this would want to buy their own DAC. Their is no DAC that could get bundled with this that would make more than a couple people happy. As tribal as PC enthusiasts are, it's 1000 times worse with audiophiles.

 

[DaveTea]

250gb ssd is enough to hold 1 album in FLAC format. Lol. Would you store the music on a NAS or something and stream it to the "music server"?

What rubbish. Even a double album, uncompressed WAV would EASILY fit. I think ur getting ur Gb mixed up with your Mb! I have over 20 FLAC albums on a 32Gb stick!

 

[DaveTea]

I was exaggerating. 1 album is about 1gb at 24-bit. Its very easy to hit 200gb with a halfway decent music collection. I hit a tb when AudioGalaxy was around.

That wasn't exaggeration, it was pure bollocks, or Trolling. Why even say such a dumb thing if you supposedly know better?!

 

[DaveTea]

What's so music oriented about it? If it came with preinstalled good audio card, amplifier, and cheaper CPU to balance out the cost it would be more reasonable to call it audiophile's music server.

Maybe because it has no spinning fans or HDs to introduce electrical noise into th system? There must be some rational reason that's not mentioned , otherwise it's expensive BS.