A principle guiding the wise audiophile life

First I would advice to read Robert Harley audio book. It did help me the rest I did it it one my own like  listening skill. After I learned how to match my system then final tweak made me slow down in buying anymore stuff. Money matters in this hobby not always. This year I went to axpona to listen to a $125k set up it sounded very good after I went to a friend house to listen to listen to his $22k system? The difference is not much at all.

This is why I will never use rock on their server or on mine. 
IMO, it’s foolish to take all of the Linux diagnostics out of the OS like rock did to save a couple cycles, and that’s why nobody will never know what is causing any problem you have.

If I’m wrong, can you tell me how much cpu usage % while running? Are you swapping/paging? How much of the mEmory are you using? Any disk/ssd errors? Ethernet/network errors? I have close to 4TB of music on my server.

I’m using Mint Linux for Roon and I have hundreds of diagnostic commands and tools to see exactly what is going on in the OS. I’ve ran Roon on OSX for years and I also had many diagnostic tools/commands to diagnose any problem I might have.

The OP and many others for years have reported problems they were having and most posters indicate that they think upgrading to the bigger server is what needed. This could be a foolish move because you don’t know what is causing the problem.

@rbstehno 

I don't know enough about Linux to use it with Roon. So I used ROCK on my NUC instead. I have an internal SSD for music storage. Been using it for a few years now without any problems. 

So, I guess I trust my ears in the end, but I don't trust them without some skeptical testing and re-listening.

I act the same...

This is pretty basic stuff. The OP wants to convince everybody that you can buy a $500 amp but put a $10 worth of isolation feet on it, it will perform like the $60,000 amp. You know this isn’t possible.

I presume you are a remote viewer of a palm reader ?

If you are you read my mind in a distorted way....

i always specified that basic optimization is only that : basic optimization principle which apply to any system at any price...

Only an idiot will think that price never reflect the design quality  of a piece of gear than a better potential performance...I am not this one idiot...

only an idiot will claim that price is all there is to know about the gear before plug and play ... I am not this one idiot...

Read others mind ... Thanks...

only an uninformed person  will also  claim :

For good stuff it takes money.

Now after accusing me of repeating common place facts you yourself impose on us your "axiom" which is the most erroneous one peddled in all audio thread...

Sorry but optimizing a system /room is very complex job with his 3 working dimensions and buying costly acoustics panels do not replace acoustics controls ( complex one as filters or mechanical one as mine) and knowledge...

Buying is not enough...

And yes a low cost system can be relatively good when the designed parts are good and when they reach their optimum even if no peanuts cost system can replace very costlier one.... Am i in the obligation to repeat this in each post because a twisted mind reader will put falseties in my mouth ?