Unitiserve - does it benefit from placement on audiophile platforms?

personally i moved my unitserve from the fraimlite to the floor ( on a little marble shelf) because it is noisy....i didn’t noticed a change in the sound.

It’s just a computer in a posh suit. As you have a nas, why not sell the Serve and remove the issue altogether?

I didn't notice any difference between the locations - it lived on my rack, it now lives in a network-equipment room on a regular shelf. Sounds the same to me.
I use an SSD version, with a NAS residing in a network cabinet.

Adam

P.S. Happy to see that Nigel still recommends selling a US whenever it's mentioned  To make the picture complete, I of course advocate for keeping the UnitiServe.

I have mine sitting on the top of my rack, with its little power supply on another shelf being fed by a posh power cable. I can't really say wether it benefits as I haven't ever had it anywhere else, other than on another one of the shelves - which didn't sound as good.

main concern is that it does get very warm, putting it in an enclosed place might cook it.

Mine sits on my office desk now (with LPSU) - it used to sit on a Fraimlite shelf.

No difference in sound quality since moving, however less paranoia about RF noise affecting other black boxes on the Fraimlite rack!

(BTW, I’m with Adam in that music served from my US-SSD sounds much better than directly from my NAS alone - wouldn’t give the US-SSD up).

ATB. George.

Put it in another room. 

jon honeyball posted:

Put it in another room. 

thats how i have mine -- it shares one shelf of a cabinet with the NAS close to the virgin router and NetGear switch

enjoy

ken

Mine sits out of the way in a cupboard. I’ve had it on the rack, and on the kitchen windpwsill near the router. Can’t say I heard any difference when using it with UPnP.  

Vibration isolating platform for a UnitiServe ? I would expect that, when ripping, the internal (and audible) vibration from the Serve would swamp any external vibration. It's at knuckle whitening levels when ripping an off-centre CD, which in my house can be heard from the floor below...  Keeping vibration-induced ripping out of your system makes sense, if you rip while listening. 

Other than that use case, I don't see the point. Spending the cash on improving the power supply though is well worth it, but not discussable here.

Jan

Thanks all. An Audio Paranoid kind of a question I guess, but wanted to see if anyone had experienced a difference. I will leave as is, which is in a separate cupboard, well away from the listening room. 

It does run hot and sounds like a miniature washing machine when ripping and I too worry about RF, so no way it's ever coming near the system ????.

I regularly compare Unitiserve'd music vs direct from the Netgear NAS. I'm 100% in agreement that there's a worthwhile difference..