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1. #JRIVER MEDIA CENTER 21 UPGRADE INSTRUCTIONS SOFTWARE#
2. #JRIVER MEDIA CENTER 21 UPGRADE INSTRUCTIONS PC#

Nothing sounds better than an Apple Mac mini so I gave up on anything else. I have built hundreds of PCs and Macs for many years now. Ive tried MANY combinations since the early 90s. I do that on a Hackintosh with an ASUS BluRay drive. Sounds better than any other and the tagging is pristine. Best and most logical format, why use anything else?

#JRIVER MEDIA CENTER 21 UPGRADE INSTRUCTIONS SOFTWARE#

I think Amarra Luxe software is by far the best sounding.

Not for Use for anything else but music and maybe YouTube music video.Įxternal drives have complications like the cords and power supplies that intrude of fidelity, waste of time and money better spent on a good machine. Not any other reasons without much compromise.ĭedicated to audio playback. If your interested in what actually sounds best then here's my 2 cents.īut this is about tweaking for near best quality.

#JRIVER MEDIA CENTER 21 UPGRADE INSTRUCTIONS PC#

So even if I wanted the Bluos environment I would probably still purchase a mini PC and a Node 2i instead of the vault because of the greater flexibility. The Vault is a very cool device, but it is more like a typical NAS than a media server and does not support connecting your DAC via USB but the coax works pretty well (never really used the optical). Roon also allows you to group multiple versions of the same album together, something I find very useful.Īll of my current endpoints run Bluos so on the rare occasion I want to use a different service, I just switch to the Bluos app. But Bluos does not have play tracking and that is a major feature for me. Roon is really for local media, Tidal and Qobuz, whereas Bluos (Bluesound Node 2i etc) seems to support just about everything. Roon is a pretty nice media manager, but it really shines when you start using the DSP functions. You would also need a ROON subscription at $12.99 a month or $120 a year. You will need to connect the ROCK to your network with an Ethernet cable instead of WiFi, but if you have fast WiFi an Ethernet bridge works quite well. The rock will also act as a bridge for your USB DAC. I am no longer using it this way, but you can attach a USB DAC directly to the ROCK. You could of course attach external storage or use a bigger SSD, but it was all the storage I needed and using an internal drive kept everything very compact. The computer is very small, never makes any noise and works great. I purchased a Lenovo M90n (they go on sale all the time) for $350, added a second 1TB M2 SSD for another $150 or so and then loaded ROCK (Roon Optimized Core Kit).