Emerging from a quiet and dark background, the dynamics of CyberServer slowly fill my room. And then suddenly blooms into a full orchestra allowing me to hear every detail, yet not over bearing or etchy. The fact that I can get this sound so relatively inexpensively, is nothing to sneeze at. While it is true, that most of the cost of CyberServer is in its solid state disks and clever configurations of the buffer cache, the tweak-er-ing (that’s a cancatenation of a tweak and tinkering), is well worth it.

But, this blog is not about CyberServer, it is about computer audio.

The fact that I can have all of my music, regardless of sampling rate and resolution, at my finger tips without leaving the chair, is something to behold. Before this, the so called “wireless” servers, never sounded as good as our CD players. Thus, nice for background, but bad for serious listening. Well, that paradigm is changing. We expect more and more so called “quiet” servers – non-wireless servers with no moving parts, will be hitting the market soon. They will have astronomical prices. They will advertise in high end pubs and they will get their review. See Harry and Wes swoon.

But, there prices cannot fool me. Its just an AMD/Intel chip, linux, a solid state drive and a clock. That’s all it is. No big whip, and ergo no big price.