Recent content by Magic 99

It is quite possible. Hard for me to say, but likely in that I don't find that this is system dependant. It is just that some sound brighter and appear to escape the speakers more fully than some older stuff. On the other hand, for instance, I have some old Jack McDuff that sounds amazing at...

It is quite possible. Hard for me to say, but likely in that I don't find that this is system dependant. It is just that some sound brighter and appear to escape the speakers more fully than some older stuff. On the other hand, for instance, I have some old Jack McDuff that sounds amazing at...

It is actually the quality of the CDs that gets me. Some sound so much clearer, brighter, etc. and I wonder how the internet radio stations pull it off. I have no issues with dB power amp, but on the radio stations, many of which are not well funded, how do they afford to pump it all out...

I would say it is classical music that makes the Zensor really shine, for me.

If you could up your budget just a bit, try Dali Zensor 1s I have an old DM37 with Wharfedale 9.1s but was amazed when I swapped my Zensor 1s over from my other system. The DM37 has quite a rich ouput to my ears anyway and I assume the DM38 might be similar. If you are planning to upgrade in the...

Ever since MP3s came out, I felt that one day there would be a use for it all, besides which I was sick of losing CDs, being unable to find same, or finding that the one CD that you really wanted to listen to was in the car, which would miraculously be elsewhere. Anyway, over the years, I kept...

Fan noise from all but the fanless solutions is something to consider, but you can lose a NAS anywhere you like and the noise isn't that great. However, some locations will make that noise more or less apparent and it is the same argument as that for speaker placement, so if anyone IS finding a...

"Recommend an external HDD backup as well Matthew. Just in case...! Always, always have a backup." Give that man a biscuit! RAID is all very well, but for me anyway, I think a better bet for a music library is to back it up to a seperate disk in another location. That Gigabit port would have...

Matthew, go ahead and plug any NAS into that gigabit port, but I assume that your PC is Wifi? According to the confusions that came with my MCR510 (and I therefore assume the same with your 610) that if you are running FLACs everywhere that it could splutter and fart a little, so a wired...

Thinking further on your post, you mention buffering and if that is currently a problem, is more likely to be an issue on your network than to do directly with Nas, etc. Now, I don't know the Homehub 4, but wonder if it is like the home hub 3 and only has one gigabit socket at the back? If it...

Look at the Zyxel NSA325, which has Squeezebox Server built in to handle the DLNA server bit.. It works a treat with the Marantz and bloody fast too. Mine runs with a 3TB WD RED Hard Drive but it is very unpicky with what you may choose to put in it.. I use Bubble UPNP with my Android Tablet to...

And as a PS, my own sub hardly has to do a thing on music with the Z3. Everything is really screwed down compared to Z1 but that wonderful clarity is still there with Z3, so don't worry about losing the character or nature of the sound. Good luck!

Fascinating question and being an owner of both Z1 and Z3, it was one I had idly pondered. If it weren't for the fact that I hate films, I might be able to give a more useful answer. However... Whareas the Z1 is a bit light on bass for some, the Z3 certainly ain't. It should offer cracking...

The Zyxel NSA325 is a cracking little NAS and I have been using two of them for a year. Has the Squeezebox server built in and this beams everything through Ethernet to my Marantz m cr510 beautifully. It also serves an Onkyo crn 755, Squeezebox and of course all PC's on the network being fast...

Edited because this forum doesn't seem to like my tablet.