Early impressions, musings & pondering a Sub addition

[completeluxury]

i have never heard of twonky media nor any idea of what it does, how good/bad it is

Theres a few good choices in music player software: Roon, jplay with jplay streamer, jriver, foobar, hq player.

You can also look at room correction software like: Acourate, Dirac

jplay is actually really easy to set up but theres other peices of important software that help as well.

Audiophile optimizer
fidelizer
project lasso

all help streamline and strip away unnecessary processes and stuff that isnt required for audio pcs.

you say you have access to other pcs but what i mean by a well designed audio pc is not just the software on it but also the hardware!

fanless cases to reduce fan noise and EMI, low voltage ram, specialised audiophile USB cads, separate hard drives for your operating system and all other software, audiophile sata cables, specialised power supplies for each component (cpu, motherboard, hard drives and USB card), audiophile lan cable to link up your computers (if using dual pcs), audiophile USB cable, upgrading the clock on your motherboard.

those are examples of the different things you can do... to do everything i just mentioned would be awfully expensive, i dont dare tally up the cost of what my ideal system would cost i would probably cry.

I would start off by building one good PC instead of going for a dual pc set up. it means you will have a solid source which you can upgrade later to dual pcs if you were ever so inclined!