Hi,
I have a Marantz NA7004 downstairs and an MCR603 Melody Media upstairs. They both exhibit the same issue - the NA7004 was better until the latest firmware update, now it's as bad.
The issue is glitchy streaming from NAS drives on the network. Both players drop-out during play of FLAC files from a NAS drive making listening unpleasant and pointless. I assumed that it was a network plroblem so bought an additional NAS and connected to each in turn as directly as possible using just a cable and switch (tried different cables and switches to ensure they weren't the cause). This didn't fix it.
However, I noticed that when they do it, they both show 100% on the front (the buffer) so it's not a lack of data to the player, it's the player itself. Unplugging each and powering back up fixes both but on restart it does the full 2 minutes reconnection to the network. Trying to trck dwn the problem, I disabled Network Standby and the problem is fixed. However, every attempt to play music is now preceded by a 2 minute wait while the machine connects to the network.
Given both machines do it, I'm amazed I can't find anything on the internet about the issue as it looks to be a Marantz generic issue, probably introduced by one of the firmware updates as I don't think it would have passed it's original product testing in this condition.
Has anyone else experienced this and has anyone else been able to fix it without disabling Network Standby? Other than this I love both machines and would prefer not to change them. Any help gratefully received.
George
I have a Marantz NA7004 downstairs and an MCR603 Melody Media upstairs. They both exhibit the same issue - the NA7004 was better until the latest firmware update, now it's as bad.
The issue is glitchy streaming from NAS drives on the network. Both players drop-out during play of FLAC files from a NAS drive making listening unpleasant and pointless. I assumed that it was a network plroblem so bought an additional NAS and connected to each in turn as directly as possible using just a cable and switch (tried different cables and switches to ensure they weren't the cause). This didn't fix it.
However, I noticed that when they do it, they both show 100% on the front (the buffer) so it's not a lack of data to the player, it's the player itself. Unplugging each and powering back up fixes both but on restart it does the full 2 minutes reconnection to the network. Trying to trck dwn the problem, I disabled Network Standby and the problem is fixed. However, every attempt to play music is now preceded by a 2 minute wait while the machine connects to the network.
Given both machines do it, I'm amazed I can't find anything on the internet about the issue as it looks to be a Marantz generic issue, probably introduced by one of the firmware updates as I don't think it would have passed it's original product testing in this condition.
Has anyone else experienced this and has anyone else been able to fix it without disabling Network Standby? Other than this I love both machines and would prefer not to change them. Any help gratefully received.
George
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