"Dedicated" Streaming LAN...

ken c posted:

Mike-B posted:

Hi Ken,  all good advice in the thread,  but why do you want to do this ??? 

Simple. To learn something new...

OK,  I'm a great believer in learning, something new every day etc..    Your system can run without internet, there's nothing new with that,  but whats internet doing to your system that will make it better without it ????

ken c posted:

james n posted:

Ken - i'm not quite sure what you are trying to achieve with this setup but can i suggest you have a chat to your dealer and borrow a Melco Server. This will store your music and has two Ethernet ports on it. One connects to your router to allow normal wireless control of your NDS via the naim app, the other connects straight to the NDS ethernet port and is designed to keep unwanted network traffic off this 'isolated' side.

Alan Ainslie from Melco is a very helpful chap (IIRC he worked with Naim during the early streaming and Naimnet days). There are a few of us on the forum that use these Melco servers (both as UPnP and USB sources). Bert Schurink and Jonas Olofsson use their NDS streamers in this way so maybe they will chip in and comment 

James

James, many thanks. I believe i have answered the 'why' bit -- i am curious and if i manage to achieve this, i believe i will understand a lot more than i do now (not hard, given that i know naaaaaaaarthing! ...). The simplicity of a streaming network controlled by single switch and no other net hardware (other than the US and NDS of course) is very interesting to me.

I dont know anything about Melco and i am not looking to change any hardware on my network. 

enjoy...

ken

Ah ok, understood ken. Just thought i'd plant the seed 

Mike-B posted:

.....  but whats internet doing to your system that will make it better without it ????

the primary aim is not to make my system "better".  i have no idea what difference this will make sonically. But i think i will understand a lot more if i manage to set it up. whether i will adopt this as final solution is an entirely different matter. My system more than OK as is.

enjoy...

ken

james n posted:

Ah ok, understood ken. Just thought i'd plant the seed 

just as a matter of digression (after all its my thread, right? ) why is the Melco approach relevant here and why is that "a good thing"? Just very briefly -- dont want to start a whole new discussion here...

enjoy...

ken

Hi Ken - from your original post i thought you were looking at network simplification.  The advantage here is that you can have the Melco directly feeding the NDS and no external switches etc required between both components. Whether it would be better than what you have at the moment you would need to try but given the level of your system it could be beneficial. It also plays nicely with the US. 

James

PS - Take a look at this thread for more Melco info and user experiences with Naim streamers. 

https://forums.naimaudio.com/to...21#51407790457318221

Thanks James...

enjoy

ken