Dear Srajan, I just read the feature on your new iMac and the companion piece on Audirvana Origin. Very interesting! I know of your allergy to WiFi which you've mentioned repeatedly over the years. I can appreciate how that makes it difficult navigating modern streaming with its ever increasing reliance on wireless connectivity. You've found a clever way around it which, I must admit, also looks very attractive and doesn't cost nearly as much as many of the audiophile streamers you love to take to task for their pricing. I appreciate the time you took to write these two features, explain your thinking, make compelling arguments and present a roadmap that others so inclined can follow. I'm now thinking about it myself. Nicely done old chap. James
Glad to hear you found those articles useful. Again, my solution doesn't rely on Apple hardware should one prefer Windows. I simply find particularly Apple's iMac platform superior to Windows-based alternatives at that price. What's lovely having moved past iTunes as library host is that I can buy music as .flac to suit both my Win 10/64 work desk and music iMac since Audirvana is codec agnostic. Before I'd download .flac to my Windows machine, transfer the files to the old iMac, then convert them to .aiff. Dealing with DSD was still more protracted whereas now it's child's play. And I can take my 4TB SSD upstairs and plug it into that system. I really thought over the alternatives I could afford and this was by far the most attractive option. Srajan
