Have you considered Antipodes Audio?
I am very happy with my K41 (Gen.4), with self installed (very easily) 2 Samsung PM 893 SSD’s.
Unfortunately, the price of these SSD’s (and most others) has sky rocketed in recent years!
Antipodes will be launching a new range of servers and players later this year, plus upgrade options (Gen. 5) for existing owners, so there may be some of the current range of servers available at discounted prices…
Yes, but this is not as sophisticated as dbpoweramp where the feature AccurateRip compares your rip with thumbnails of samples from many other rips of the same material. Here you go:
Sourav, I’m not sure about the current generation of Melco HDD based platforms, but with the first generation, the HDDs were not the typical HDD you might find in consumer PCs and whatnot, they’re Enterprise-grade high-reliability HDDs - with MTBFs about 3 times that of regular consumer HDDs - designed for 24/7 continuous Video recording.
The HDDs were also mounted on rubber grommets rendering them quite silent within the Melco chassis. The only way to know that it has a mechanical HDD is to either put your ear against one, or feel the gentle “purring” vibration with your hand on one.
Thanks for this input.
I understand in the latest architecture they have also added a special chassis, HS3, for holding the hdd.
Regards,
Sourav
Any pointers to reading about it?
I was checking this https://dela.global/dela-n5/.
This is the part I’m referring to - “This HDD is installed in a uniquely designed storage mount called HS3 (Highly Stable Storage System).”
Regards,
Sourav
I finally decided on getting the Dela N5 for my music library. It is now 7 days old, sitting on my rack.
Honestly, I have not heard USB input to Rossini Apex dac sounding so great before. The sound is super controlled and meaty.
Sound through Ethernet/NW also seems to be better. But I have to listen to it more.
All software (Songkong, Minimserver) came properly installed. Upgrade worked without a problem. I could set up the music download from Qobuz without much of a problem (don’t use any special characters in the password - that does not work).
The UI is a little inconvenient, but it does what it is supposed to do without any problem. The navigation is intuitive enough. No sound of the hard disk drive spinning, even when I come close to the unit.
The Roon Ready endpoint seemed a little clunky. Got into n/w congestion. I had to restart the unit.
Overall, super satisfied so far. Thanks @Anupc, and all for your inputs
Wondering if N1 (at $6K more cost) can provide any substantial improvement over N5 ?
Regards,
Sourav