I bought the Mac Mini when Apple rolled out their hi-res lossless Apple Music service mid year 2021. My dedicated music room has a fairly advanced 2-channel hifi system and I’ll probably play around with Dolby Atmos multi channel music soon.The Mac serves all my needs for digital music sources… digital radio, various digital music downloads and streaming services.Using an external USB DAC, the Mac serves up anything I want to listen to from Apple Music and my small collection of hi-res digital music files I’ve acquired using Pine Player and others. The built in digital to analog sound output isn’t horrible, but even a modest priced external DAC will sound better. So, the path is: Mac source to DAC to hifi audio preamp.Using the free iTunes/Apple Music remote app on my iPhone gives me full access to my Apple Music library and streaming services, plus provides a volume control.  I used our older 1080p 50” television as a wall mounted monitor which shows current music selection and serves as a monitor to the Mac as a computer if I want it as a normal display.Additionally, video streaming services like YouTube go to the TV display and sound goes to the sound system. Simple and neat.Everything worked without any glitches, which is amazing considering this is a completely different chipset than Macs have used before.The supplied software is pretty complete for regular users right out of the box. Pages for page layout and word processing, Numbers for spreadsheets, etc…. Most people probably won’t need anything that isn’t already installed!For me, it’s a pretty terrific music streaming server and control center.