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RE: MELCO - Rufus McDufus - 19-Mar-2015 (19-Mar-2015, 18:01)Jnan_devi Wrote: Actually want to say "Congratulations" and "Thank you" . I truly humbly appreciate the efforts put in by G and R. read all posts. took two glass full of wine . SSD cache is fairly important for the Melco and I think the cache is pretty big on the SSD disks provided with the device. For actual storage N1Z has 2x 512G SSDs which unfortunately isn't enough for my needs as I have just over that. I'm not sure if further space is possible inside with larger capacity disks or more disks. There is external expandability which is pretty funky because it's simply a case of plugging an external disk in and the whole process of expansion (or in fact contraction if there's sufficient space on remaining disks) is invislble to the user. I'm not aware if they only recommend the same Buffalo SSDs for expansion - that would seem to make sense but I don't know if they're actually available separately. Putting regular consumer SSDs in the N1A may not necessary result in better sound quality, mainly because their controllers have the life-extending & speed-improving software built-in which is also (apparently) detrimental to sound quality. RE: MELCO - ogs - 19-Mar-2015 (19-Mar-2015, 18:23)weust Wrote: TCP/IP optimizations? You can optizime all you want, but that won't give you better audio quality. Weust, I am sure you where present at the listening sessions then? Many years ago I said to myself "no chance there is any difference on USB cables. It's only packet data" Today we know better.. RE: MELCO - Rufus McDufus - 19-Mar-2015 (19-Mar-2015, 19:31)ogs Wrote:(19-Mar-2015, 18:23)weust Wrote: TCP/IP optimizations? You can optizime all you want, but that won't give you better audio quality. You can certainly lower the load requirement on the target player by reducing the computation necessary to reassemble the TCP packets. [edit] Yes it's questionable whether it has a noticeable effect, but the end result of all these optimsations sound pretty good to me. RE: MELCO - weust - 19-Mar-2015 When a proper NIC is used, the controller handles that, not the CPU. And no, I will not waste time and money on that. And by that this forum from now on as well. RE: MELCO - Womaz - 19-Mar-2015 Great post, very informative. As a new 200 owner I find this type of post invaluable. RE: MELCO - Kunter - 19-Mar-2015 (19-Mar-2015, 18:19)Rufus McDufus Wrote:(19-Mar-2015, 17:54)Kunter Wrote: Thanks for the excellent write up guys. How about Melco - > Totaldac USB Input - > Devialet AES ? RE: MELCO - Jwg1749 - 19-Mar-2015 HEALTH WARNING: this post is slightly philosophical and a bit off topic. These questions about the optimization of digital transports are interesting. No doubt clever IT people can argue meaningfully about whether e.g. CPU drain could have any impact on data transfer and so on. I don’t know enough about it to have a view. What makes me sceptical about it isn’t the IT side, it’s the human side. One would surely want to weigh up the (well attested) inability of the human auditory system to make fine discriminations against the (well attested) power of the human mind to imagine things. It’s this mismatch between perceptual insensitivity and mental sensitivity that makes me sceptical. It doesn't make me a pessimist though. People sometimes say that expectation bias implies people are stupid. I look at it the other way: the fact that we can experience expectation bias shows how subtle and complex our minds are. Sorry for going off topic. Matt RE: MELCO - Charlemagne - 19-Mar-2015 It's pretty clear to me. Having NO SPEAKERS is putting you in a philosophical mindset. ;-) RE: MELCO - johnsap - 19-Mar-2015 Does MELCO give less details in comparison to AIR ? I found Moon to be less detailed than AIR ? Is it the same with MELCO ? RE: MELCO - Confused - 19-Mar-2015 There is no doubt that expectation bias exists, many truly scientific experiments have demonstrated the phenomena. However, there have been many times I have auditioned audio kit and the final conclusions have been very different to my initial expectation. Possibly this indicates that I am immune to expectation bias, or possibly it indicates I am slightly insane. |