19-Mar-2015, 18:30
(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 .
So its
N1Z, X100 at the top of the line followed by
N1A, N100.
Couple of questions:
1) I wonder if Cached SSD mattered for SQ, then N100 better than N1A because N100 does have 120G SSD which is more than sufficient for audio files?
- i m sure about from SSD there are other component to snub the noise, to keep power supply as quite as possible for separate sections in N1Z etc. but SSD might contribute too.
2) If there is SSD NAS replaced with HDD then it should also improve for N1A ?
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.