Help designing mac mini music server


I want to set up a mac mini as a music server. Looking for recommendations for set up including 'cost effective' DAC, connections to external drives etc. Pointing to past posts is fair, as I would guess this has been asked before.

Have several music systems, so long term wouldn't mind being able to use multiple audio systems in the house. Main objective right now is to set up the server.
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Take a look here for some good information and discussion:

computeraudiophile.com

It all depends on your budget - what quality you want to achieve and how many systems you want to set up and in what quality. For a single system the Mac Mini works very well for me - I use a Weiss DAC2 with the Mac Mini for example. but that may be more than you are are willing to spend.