ssd high end nas?

Posted by: French Rooster on 16 March 2017

i don't know and don't understand why there is no high end ssd nas. There is melco, aurender, innuos, unitserve , core...which are nas and also streamers. But just high end nas, to associate with streaming dacs as nds, ndx or other, i think they don't exist. It is curious. 

When naim nds is associated with unitserve or core in ethernet mode, we don't need the streaming part of the serve or core, just the nas ( and perhaps the ripping part).   I just find the kstore ssd nas, but no reviews  of it...

Posted on: 28 March 2017 by Jonn
Harry posted:

Sounds like my HDX needed a service. However, having taken it out of the loop, had I not been able to hear a difference compared to Minimserver running on our NAS, our decision would have been the same.  £5.6k versus a voluntary donation ? For the same result?

But each to our own as always.

When Jason came over to rebuild the system he took the HDX-SSD out of the rack. Best put elsewhere was the advice. So we did.

I just tried the same comparison with "Another Listener"whose usual response is it all sounds good. However in this case AL did give a preference to the HDX routed track saying it sounded richer, which tallies with my feeling that there is slightly more body compared with Minimserver route.

So I'll continue to use the HDX in preference to Minimserver for the NDS. This makes sense as I use the HDX in a separate system so not duplicating sources and I do value the ease of use. If the NDS was my only source then I  would probably just Minimserver.

Posted on: 29 March 2017 by Simon-in-Suffolk
Solid Air posted:
Mrs Wogan's lemon drizzle cake posted:

Simon,    You are saying file formats have varying levels of quality (which is easily measurable and provable) so therefore "you are going to most likely hear the different sonic footprints of media servers" which is not measurable or provable.   

 

Simon said he was measuring different NAS media servers, not different file formats. I am assuming the files were the same, and the servers different, so any difference in the TCP trace can be deemed to be due to the different servers.

Correct, I was measuring the flow and timing of frames/packets containing payload chunks of sample data and their acknowledgements. It's the network dynamics I am interested in and the interaction with the network protocol machines and the payload encoding is largely irrelevant.. this is about how the TCP/IP protocol machine reconstructs the sample data from the network data and the side effect noise 'signature' in doing so. This effect is not dissimilar to the processing noise generated by decoding FLAC, ALAC and WAV payload data and the different sonic signature produced.

I am a design engineering architect, and had been working on an enterprise audio quality solution design issue for a large global client... and this got me thinking and adapting my investigatory and measurement techniques for our simple home Hi-Fi streaming setups... and there were unsurprisingly some interesting similarities..