Melco Audiophile NAS

[simoncn]

(13-12-2014 19:39)DavidHB Wrote:  ... and costs £6,200. Ouch. How much of the benefit does one get from the £1,600 N1A, I wonder?

I would also be very interested to know the answer to this question. Apart from the SSDs, the main difference seems to be the power supplies (potentially quite significant). The N1Z also has a Linn Klimax-style thick aluminium case.

Quote:Well, the Albert Hall (in any of its acoustic incarnations) is not like St Mark's - where Gardiner was also free to play around with the spacing of the performance - but I know what you mean. There's an interesting account in Gardiner's recent book ("Music in the Castle of Heaven" - it's really about J.S. Bach) of his pioneering performance of the Vespers in Cambridge when he was still an undergraduate there.

There is also a lot of space in the Albert Hall and it was used very effectively by positioning a few musicians (a mixture of vocal and instrumental, different for each piece) in remote locations at varying distances from the main stage. Very effective and an experience I will never forget. It puts the limitations of any hi-fi system in their proper perspective.