23-Jan-2016, 12:57
(This post was last modified: 23-Jan-2016, 21:18 by Axel.
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Well, it's been a couple of months since my last post here and there are now several sellers with stock, so I was able to pick an HS251+ for under three hundred quid and loaded it up with two WD red 6 TB drives. It is quiet enough to live on the rack with the rest of my gear and is connected to the D with an Audioquest Forest USB cable. There are plenty of apps available for home or business users and as the OP pointed out JRiver is available, so I'm using this as I have a master license for it and know my way around it fairly well. The manual for the NAS is some 370 odd pages long and a large portion of it is mandatory reading before tackling the software side of things. Once set up though, sound quality is fantastic. I can thoroughly recommend this setup to anyone who is thinking of getting more storage for the ever growing size of today's high resolution files! I'm willing to buy a Jitterbug, to see if it improves SQ, but is there a kind soul out there who would be prepared to lend me a Regen to try, pretty please?
One question that I'd like to ask though: the NAS has USB 2 and 3 connections. Is there any practical reason as to which one to use to connect it to the Dev?
*Edit* before this, because Air was not working, I was running my hi-res files from my Mac using JRiver 21 to my Oppo via Ethernet and then on to the D, again via Ethernet. Not ideal as the signal was going through two DACs. Now, the signal goes straight from the NAS into the D's DAC.
Cheers all!
Al.
One question that I'd like to ask though: the NAS has USB 2 and 3 connections. Is there any practical reason as to which one to use to connect it to the Dev?
*Edit* before this, because Air was not working, I was running my hi-res files from my Mac using JRiver 21 to my Oppo via Ethernet and then on to the D, again via Ethernet. Not ideal as the signal was going through two DACs. Now, the signal goes straight from the NAS into the D's DAC.
Cheers all!
Al.
Project Eperience X Pack with Ortofon Rondo Red MC, Oppo BDP 105D, 2 x Sonos Connect, QNAP HS251+ NAS with 2 X 6TB Western Digital Red, Mac 5K 32GB running Lifetime Roon, iPad Pro 12.9" for remote control. Etalon Ethernet Isolator, Devialet 440 Pro CI, Sonus faber Olympica ll with Isoacoustics Gaia ll feet, Auralic Taurus Mkll headphone amp., Denon AH-D5000, Sennheiser HD600 and HD800 with Cardas cable, Van Den Hul The First Ultimate and Crystal interconnects, Furutech power cables, GSP Audio Spatia speaker cable.
South Coast England
