Recent content by lazyade

Thanks for your comments, I've now fixed this an can play FLAC from the Synology. I did install Audio Station on the NAS but that didn't work straight away. After searching through the Synology Help on Audio Station it reminded me I needed to map the Folder (where I had saved the High Res...

Having just read the January article on High Resolution Audio download services I thought I'd buy my first FLAC album from 7Digital. I planned to play the FLAC audio from the amp's music server - connecting to my NAS. Downloading all worked well and I got the audio copied on a newly created...

I have had a handful of NASs over the past few years (Netgear, LG and Synology), the Synology is way better than the others; mainly down to its interface which is excellent and very easy to use (and regulalry updated). I have the 413j with 4 x 1TB drives, 2 set for RAID backup (can't remember...

Thanks to all that have shared an opinion. I was happy to shell out the £250 for Sonos Connect, but wasn't sure if it would degrade the quality of the music - doesn't sound like that's the case. Interestingly, after posting this I discovered that purchased songs from iTunes don't download as...

I have a Yamaha RX-V479 amp (with Q-Accoustics 3050 speakers, 7000 sub and 2020 surrounds). I have most of my music stored on a Synology NAS (and the amp is hard wired to my router / NAS). Most of my CDs have been ripped to Apple Lossless. I also have a few Sonos components in other rooms...