Melco Audiophile NAS

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(27-06-2018 21:50)Gandharva Wrote:  On another Melco thread, I mentioned the use of a travel router to control the Melco. This is something Alan Ainsley mentioned, but did not go into detail about, at a recent dealer demonstration I attended.

I thought I'd experiment, and purchased a a TP-Link AC750 Travel Router from Amazon, and it works! This keeps the Melco and my PS Audio DirectStream DAC completely off the Internet and my home router.

For anyone who is interested this is how I configured the router.

First of all I moved the 'mode' switch on the travel router to AP/Rng Ext/Client setting and, using my PC, configured the router to 'Client Mode'. Unplugging the travel router, I connected it by Ethernet cable to the 'Lan' port on the Melco, in place of the Ethernet connection to my home router.

Once the travel router was connected to power and it booted up, I connected to the router from my ipad, started 'Mconnect', the app I use, and the Melco could be controlled as normal.

Please enlighten the uneducated, why would you want to do this? I thought the selling point of the Melco was that it isolated the music output from the general network traffic. What you are implying to me by the use of a travel router is that there is a discernible SQ improvement from isolating the Melco itself from the network. Is this really the case?