Only $91k. Yes ninety one thousand dollars.
http://www.monoandstereo.com/2016/11/lessloss-laminar-streamer-direct-drive_25.html#more
Keith
http://www.monoandstereo.com/2016/11/lessloss-laminar-streamer-direct-drive_25.html#more
Keith
Open source code hackers do this sort of thing daily the world over for FREE"(A) The Laminar Streamer was not based on any prior existing core technology except the FAT32 file system that the SD card has to be formatted in. Everything else was custom built by LessLoss from the ground up, which includes every line of custom LessLoss Direct Drive audiophile OS. Not based at all on Linux, MAC OS, or Windows, this is a completely purpose built endeavor, and costed LessLoss a lot of programmer time. It may not come as a surprise that professional programmers who can do such a thing charge pretty much the same for their time as well-established surgeons. And time it costed dearly, what with 6 years of development. "
But the thing is that they do take notice of the things that many listeners can hear ... and then charge staggering money for "solutions". Unfortunately, this tribal thing in the audio game is severely crippling the speed at which real progress in understanding what's important is made - it's tiresomely slow, takes decades for things to evolve ...LessLoss were at one point a joke They were of the Quantum things persuasion.. Might still be for all I know... they found a way to strike the right audiophile chords..
The thing is some will buy it and extol its "dark" background, galactic-wide soundstage and PRATT... Oh My!! What a pile of horse manure .. And of course the sound will change with Ethernet cables...