Going Mac

Should you be satisfied with 16-bit sound, a basic Mac with 3 GB hard drive is a good way to go. The iTunes application will serve as your primary music server, and you can add add-ons to improve music latency.

The iMac at $5000 USD is a great application for music, while the Mac Pro at $10,000 USD will serve audiophiles with a need for cohlea-level technology.

Each Promise Pegasus 2 R8 24TB will add $3,599.00 USD to either system, while each Sharp 32" 4K display (necessary for Mac Pro option), will add $3,595.00 USD.

Those with an Audi R8, will naturally want to go for the Pegasus option.

As the compact disk (16 bit, 44 kHz) is about 700 MB each 3 TB will hold 4285 compact disks, enough for the music enthusiast.

A SACD is about 4.7 GB so you'll get just 5000 DSD recordings for that Pegasus 2 R8 choice.

iMac Retina with 5K Display 4.0GHz Quad-core Intel Core i7, Turbo Boost up to 4.4GHz $250 32GB 1600MHz DDR3 SDRAM - 4x8G $600 1TB Flash Storage $800 AMD Radeon R9 M295X 4GB GDDR5 $250 Apple Magic Mouse + Magic Trackpad $69 Final Cut Pro X $300 Logic Pro X $199 Aperature $79.99 $5,047.97 USD [$2499 base]

Mac Pro 2.7GHz 12-core with 30MB of L3 cache $3000 64GB (4x16GB) of 1866MHz DDR3 ECC $1200 1TB PCIe-based flash storage $800.00 Dual AMD FirePro D700 GPUs with 6GB of GDDR5 VRAM each $600 Apple Thunderbolt Display (27-inch) $1000 Apple Mouse $49 Apple Keyboard with Numeric Keyboard - English (USA) $49 Final Cut Pro X $300 Logic Pro X $199 $10,074.98 USD [$3999 base]