HDX and Unitiserve: does the music stored onto NAS sound the same?

Posted by: Alan Paterson on 13 July 2011

Ok, i am not too sure about the streaming methods available as i have only used cd. I have read here a while back and also on a dealers site and also in hifi+ iirc that the HDX ripped music sounds better than the Unitiserve ripped music. What i want to know is if the cds were ripped using a Unitiserve onto NAS and played through the NDX would the music sound better if it were ripped using the HDX to NAS and played through the NDX? Does the HDX sound better because it rips better or because it replays better? Have i got this all wrong?

If i bought a Unitiserve and NDX, ripped my cds to NAS and in the future got the HDX would i just connect it with the NAS or would re-ripping the cds through the HDX bring benefits.

What i am getting at (hopefully) is if i were going down this route i would want to rip my cds only once and then box them up. 

Posted on: 15 September 2011 by Alan Paterson

I see that the unitiserve and NDX combo got a good write up in Hi-Fi World.