Thanks Guillaume and Rufus for your excellent, detailed write-ups It would be interesting to know what numerical scores you would award the Melcos for sound quality
Again I do have to question the pricing - whilst the N1A seems to be reasonably priced the N1Z seems well over the top. Comparing the specifications it's difficult to understand why it costs nearly 4 times as much as the N1A. I know the N1Z has dual power supplies and SSD storage rather than HDD but you can buy 2*512GB Crucial SSDs for £240...
Did anything else come up in the discussions to explain the difference?
[EDIT: re-reading Guillaume's first post I saw that he said that the SSDs cost $1k each to make which accounts for part of the cost difference between the N1Z and N1A]
Thanks
Again I do have to question the pricing - whilst the N1A seems to be reasonably priced the N1Z seems well over the top. Comparing the specifications it's difficult to understand why it costs nearly 4 times as much as the N1A. I know the N1Z has dual power supplies and SSD storage rather than HDD but you can buy 2*512GB Crucial SSDs for £240...
Did anything else come up in the discussions to explain the difference?
[EDIT: re-reading Guillaume's first post I saw that he said that the SSDs cost $1k each to make which accounts for part of the cost difference between the N1Z and N1A]
Thanks
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