Melco Audiophile NAS

[simoncn]

My two-box solution has the music files and MinimServer on an N1A. The player is an N1Z and this is connected via USB to the DAC (a dCS Rossini).

I haven't tried separating the music files from the machine running MinimServer. My intuition is that this would adversely affect SQ but I can't be sure.

I have tried running both the server and player on the N1Z with the files there also. This had an adverse effect on SQ compared with my setup described above.

I am using optical links rather than wireless for network isolation.