Melco Audiophile NAS

[DavidHB]

(13-12-2014 19:05)simoncn Wrote:  

(13-12-2014 18:17)DavidHB Wrote:  Which version are you testing? If it is the HDD version, is it suitably free of mechanical noise so that it can reside in the listening room?

It's the N1Z (SSD version) which is fanless and completely silent.

... and costs £6,200. Ouch. How much of the benefit does one get from the £1,600 N1A, I wonder?

(13-12-2014 19:05)simoncn Wrote:  Melco is the parent company and produced some serious hi-fi products in the 1970s/80s before they created the Buffalo brand and headed in a different direction.

Thanks for this correction, and the information. Up to now, I have only encountered the Buffalo brand.

Quote:I have Gardiner's first Vespers recording on LP and the second is clearly superior. I was fortunate enough to be at the Proms for Gardiner's live performance on the penultimate night in 2010, so I know what it really sounds like.

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.

David