Sound Galleries Music Server

The Sound Galleries music server has been built around computer architecture. It doesn’t feel like using a computer anymore than your car or refrigerator though. Almost all electronic devices are “smart” nowadays, just like your phone.

You turn on the music server with a button on the front and turn it off by pressing the same button. In other words just like an amplifier or any other piece of HiFi equipment in your system.

Your interaction with the Sound Galleries Music server will typically be with an iPad or iPhone running the roon app. This has been designed around the desires of people who are passionate about music, rather than to please computer nerds.

The HQPlayer software used as an audio engine can look ahead into each music track while it’s playing, discover all the artefacts that were introduced in the recording process and eliminate them!

The roon software uses a sophisticated database to build information about the artist or composer whose music your are playing. It will show you all the meaningful connections to other works by similar artists or composers. These other works can be from your own music library or one of the lossless streaming services such as Tidal, which are perfectly integrated into roon.

HQPlayer’s sophisticated digital filtration, using advanced digital signal processing and roon’s sourcing and presentation of all relevant information and music, are both extremely demanding on internal computing resources.

The more demanding these computationally intensive tasks are the greater the risk of generating unwanted noise within the music server that would pollute the sound.

The Sound Galleries development team have solved these issues in three crucial ways:

1. Fully optimising the operating system to only run the processes necessary for HQPlayer and roon to work.
2. Building proprietary power supplies for the crucial components. Each power supply being dedicated to the task at hand.
3. Passively cooling with heat pipes and heatsinks. No fans!

Additionally a custom designed oven controlled clock is incorporated to ensure perfect timing.

Only the basic motherboard and CPU are off the shelf parts.

The operating system is a custom build of Windows 10. This is irrelevant to a customer of the Sound Galleries music server though, as he/she never needs to interact with the operating system directly.

Future versions of the our music server might make use of a different operating system; but this will not change the way our customers interact with the music server.

The Sound Galleries music server is a state of the art device for enjoying music, built and designed without compromise right down to every detail of its design.

Instead of comparing it to other “computer audio” products such as “streamers” and so called “music servers” it begs comparison with the finest turntable arm and cartridge combination you can think of. When you hear it you will believe it!