I'd be careful buying this, at least if you'd like to run it as a Roon Server.
Stumbled at a review in a Polish magine (in English, see: http://www.highfidelity.pl/@main-726&lang=en) and saw the Zenith mkII has an off the shelf Supermicro X10SBA-L motherboard (about 160 store price,see: http://www.supermicro.com/products/mothe...0sba-l.cfm) with integrated Celeron quad core 2.0GHz CPU. The Celeron CPU is a very low cost entry CPU and way below recommended Roon specs.
Besides this I don't see anything special about this server. There's a cheap PicoPSU ATX dc-dc converter powering the mainboard though they also separately power the CPU directly from the build in linear PSU. The PicoPSU also seems to power the optical drive and/or the SSD.
Can't see anything that warrants the claim of "ultra low noise USB outputs", looks like they're using the motherboard USB outputs and can't see any mods or specialist USB cards/circuitry.
Regarding the "dual isolated ethernet ports'...well duh! All regular ethernet ports have isolation built in. Again no special mods or hardware to be found except a pice of copper strip connecting the ports tomthe chassis.
Personally I think this is way overpriced and underpowered (hardware wise, don't know anything about the software) and would never buy/recommend it, not even to people who don't want to or can't build their own PC's.
Stumbled at a review in a Polish magine (in English, see: http://www.highfidelity.pl/@main-726&lang=en) and saw the Zenith mkII has an off the shelf Supermicro X10SBA-L motherboard (about 160 store price,see: http://www.supermicro.com/products/mothe...0sba-l.cfm) with integrated Celeron quad core 2.0GHz CPU. The Celeron CPU is a very low cost entry CPU and way below recommended Roon specs.
Besides this I don't see anything special about this server. There's a cheap PicoPSU ATX dc-dc converter powering the mainboard though they also separately power the CPU directly from the build in linear PSU. The PicoPSU also seems to power the optical drive and/or the SSD.
Can't see anything that warrants the claim of "ultra low noise USB outputs", looks like they're using the motherboard USB outputs and can't see any mods or specialist USB cards/circuitry.
Regarding the "dual isolated ethernet ports'...well duh! All regular ethernet ports have isolation built in. Again no special mods or hardware to be found except a pice of copper strip connecting the ports tomthe chassis.
Personally I think this is way overpriced and underpowered (hardware wise, don't know anything about the software) and would never buy/recommend it, not even to people who don't want to or can't build their own PC's.
PS Audio P3, Shunyata ΞTRON Alpha Digital and HC/Furutech power cables, Paul Hynes SR7EHD-MR4, DIY Roon Server & Roon Endpoint running AudioLinux Headless, Phasure Lush^2 USB cable, Audioquest Diamond RJ/E ethernet, Uptone Audio etherREGEN, Mutec MC-3+ USB, Shunyata ΞTRON Anaconda Digital XLR AES/EBU, Devialet Expert 250 Pro CI, Nordost Tyr Reference LS cables, Von Schweikert VR-5 SE Anniversary Edition, Anti-Mode Dual Core 2.0, JL Audio Fathom F112. More detail here.
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