I would be totally pissed at myself were I to drop $10~15k on a set up & then decide it was not the right choice for me. I know going into it that it is not THE way to go, but I do not have enough experience with the whole music server/streaming experience to justify, in my mind, going for broke. In my mind, going Mac-mini is precisely that. My nature is to be pretty fastidious with purchases, so I tend to dabble in the more shallow end of the pool until I decided whether or not to expend the capital to get serious.
I strongly suspect that your assessments & prediction are absolutely correct, I am refraining from doing so at this point in time.
