21-Jul-2015, 10:08
(This post was last modified: 21-Jul-2015, 10:09 by Rufus McDufus.)
(20-Jul-2015, 21:20)Foxman50 Wrote: I have had the weekend with a Melco N1A and Aurender N100 feeding a Hugo TT. Both were set to stream from my NAS drive, Aurender straight file access and the Melco streaming from Minimserver.
For me they are very very similar sounding units, but the Aurender has something extra. Its so hard to pin point it but each time i switched back to the Aurender it just put a smile on my face. One area that stood out was in cymbal decay, with the Aurender it just hangs in the air. It sounds very real, very natural, ultimately it involved me more.
Its more expensive but it pips the Melco, at least for me in my system
Foxman - it occurred to me, are you streaming from the Melco's hard disks? It was mention of Minimserver that got me a bit confused as it's not currently an option on the Melco and is being beta-tested, and will be very welcome when/if it's an official option as I hate Twonkyserver with a passion. Wondering if you were streaming from Minimserver on the NAS (the UPnP server) to the Melco (UPnP renderer) plugged into the Devialet by USB? If so you won't be hearing the full benefits of the Melco... The Aurender will probably sound better playing off its local disks too.
I use my Melco as a backup device for my NAS, as well as for playback. This is a bit of a faff but I rip music to the Qnap NAS and then sync it over to the Melco (using rsync on the NAS).
