Synology

[magister]

Quote:David - its great. I've been breaking mine in for 24 hours a day for about 9 days now. It has totally smoothed out. I am currently running a CAPS 3.0 into it (and JRiver). I have a Synology 1812+ NAS. Would love to bypass the CAPS 3.0 all together....hmmm....no luck so far. The only downside is that the ipad apps for NAS-->music server kind of suck. JRemote spoils you.

I prefer the Mac Mini/Apple Remote setup, but there is no denying that the CAPS 3.0 sounds better. Much better. ARGH.

I also did have the Red Wine PS and it did improve things, but I ended up returning it because it was more of a pain then it was worth. I kept forgetting to flip the switch!

Thanks Mike -- this is great info. I owned (briefly) a Marantz NA7004, so I know what you are talking about re the Marantz remote app. Of course, you can use any control point you want to control your music (Kinsky is nice), as long as you don't need to do anything Marantz-specific like switch inputs. It's interesting that the CAPS server sounds better than the Mac; did you try optimizing it for audio? I have my music on a Synology NAS so I wouldn't use a computer except to run MinimWatch. I run Win7 so I can't help you with the firewall issue; hopefully that is the source of the problem, not something more difficult to fix. In July I will probably spring for a new Marantz or some other solution since I've had it with the lack of gapless play (and larger-than-usual gaps between regular tracks) on my PS Audio PW Dac/Bridge combo -- even though the sound quality is superb.

David