I find the wording of the article interesting.

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A third new product is the $15,000 Reference preamp 818, shipping in February. It controls the company's Sooloos music servers.
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Controls the company's Sooloos music servers?

I see something functionally like a cross between an AC200 and headless Control:10. Whether the core would boot without discs I do not know - maybe a flash drive of sorts. Just add external disk storage/network, an iApp and some DSP speakers and you have a complete Sooloos system.

But of course, marketing fluff and reality may be quite different.

Meridian owner since 1992
Prime & PSU, Focal Elear headphones, Roon (ROCK 8Gi5 NUC), Explorer 1 & 2, F80. 200/203, various Sonos (via Roon).