29-May-2015, 17:10
I bought an N1A. I love it! Brilliant device, very easy to use and just sounds great. Again the first thing I thought when hearing it in my system (as opposed to the demo unit I heard at Guillaume's) was 'analogue'. It is the closest to vinyl I've heard so far from a digital source, it's very smooth indeed, yet very detailed too. It's one of those components I just went re-listening to old familiar recordings and hearing the differences I hadn't heard before. I'm thoroughly impressed.
I kept my Qnap with the music on it and use the Melco as a backup device with the Qnap as the 'primary' source that I rip tracks to, so my usage is slightly unusual in that respect but it's handy to have multiple sources (I also backup music to another external disk plus a cloud backup just in case). The Melco simply appears as a SMB share on the network so is easy to deal with. As a result I'm not actually using the other methods of getting music onto it such as from USB stick but my old habits are hard to break.
I kept my Qnap with the music on it and use the Melco as a backup device with the Qnap as the 'primary' source that I rip tracks to, so my usage is slightly unusual in that respect but it's handy to have multiple sources (I also backup music to another external disk plus a cloud backup just in case). The Melco simply appears as a SMB share on the network so is easy to deal with. As a result I'm not actually using the other methods of getting music onto it such as from USB stick but my old habits are hard to break.