Wouldn't the transcoding be done on the server, w/ better hardware resources than on the Atom PC which is only acting as client to the DAC?
Larry Crimmins
A little confusion maybe in terminology between "media server" and a file server? There is even a program that is part of JRiver which is called MediaServer.exe to make semantics a bit hairy
Actually you would (normally) want to have the PC attached to the DAC as both media server, renderer, and one (probably) of the control points (the shared library would be located on this PC not the data files) . The Other PC could be set up either as a simple file server/"dumb" NAS or could easily be set up also as a client to do tagging admin and as a second control with local playback . If you had a real NAS you wouldn't install JRiver on it nor would it hold the principal library (it would hold the media files though). You would need to install MC on both computers (you can do this with one license).
So with this simple config, you'd want the "renderer" which is basically the last element in the digital chain to have the most powerful CPU. If you are referring to the DSD in DoP format as transcoding, that is in the config of the rendering PC under output encoding. Why I suggested taking the load off the network connection by plugging in the media directly to the PC connected to the DAC, but this probably would conflict your set up for the logitech part of the system.
Thanks for the link by the way -- I do have a problem with the article but it was interesting. O.T. - not sure I buy that converting PCM flac to DSD is worthwhile, but that is for another post ... if you get a chance 623... read the article like to here what you think having the Teac DSD Dac