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		maybeJDMurphy on Dec 26, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Blackcandy: Self hosted music streaming server The audiophile market often seems to work like this. Insanely overpriced for marginal or nonexistent gains in quality.

gffrd on Dec 27, 2024 | [–]

It’s not unlike sports cars: most have them for the _pursuit_ … and where that emotion is involved, price and realized benefit become decoupled.

dymk on Dec 27, 2024 | [–]

You don't understand, Roon's source code is gold plated and that means there's less line noise buzz in the playback or something

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