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Upsamplers, DACs, jitter, shakes and analogue withdrawals, this is it.

The Aurender W20 has a PC at its heart.....

...and a 3.5" computer hard drive. Your DCS doesn't have a PC motherboard but it appears to have an ARM SoC board in the center of the larger board.

Aurender W20 with bespoke aluminum HDD cover


Aurender W20 mini-ITX PC motherboard

The mini-ITX PC motherboard is hidden at the very bottom of the chassis. It has that small black heat sink on it, long white unoccupied PCI slot, and magenta colored DVI connector. No, that connector and others are not brought out the back of the chassis but there's no denying that this $20,000 bespoke piece of audiophool electronics has a PC at its heart.

Another bespoke computer based music server:

Antipodes DX Reference music server above
mini-ITX motherboard upper left, SoTM PCI USB card (white) plugged in horizontally on top of motherboard via PCI riser card, Samsung SSD with Antipodes label on it (black) left side up against the front panel. CD drive, power supply transformer to right of CD drive, bridge rectifier bolted to the chassis bottom, linear power supply board consisting of IC voltage regulator and two pass transistors bolted to chassis bottom.




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