What should my mac mini have if primarily for music?

I'm planning on purchasing a mac mini for the primary reason of storing and playing music on my home stereo.  While I know that there will be the occasional time when I'll use for browsing and email, it will be used with AppleRemote to play music usingh iTunes as my music manager.
That being said - I have three specific questions.
Does CPU type and speed matter and if so, in what way?
Will I benefit from a Fusion drive and if so, in what way?
Will I benefit from adding more memory and if so, in what way?
TIA - JP

If you purchase the current model, or any Intel Core 2 Duo Mini the baseline CPU, memory, and standard disk drive will be fine. You will not see any real improvement with more memory better processor or Fusion drive.

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