Sorzy skrev:
Noen som har testet Serve mot andre streamere, fortrinnsvis med samme DAC?
Jeg venter på en UnitiServe til å koble sammen med Naim DAC selv. I følge enkelte forum i UK hevdes det at UnitiServe/DAC låter bedre enn HDX. Hvis det holder vann så er det en fin start! Jeg fant ikke igjen akkurat det innlegget, men her er et annet som er relevant:
Naim's local dealer was kind enough to allow me to test the Unitiserve (SSD version) at home (home demo is not a common practice among HiFi retailers in this part of the world), spent my weekend with it. My current setup is MacMini(Apple Lossless files)-Hiface-Naim DAC-Supernait(with Hicap).
1. Music ripped and played from Unitiserve's hard drive - much better than MacMini(Apple Lossless files)+Hiface. Soundstage improved, more details heard.
2. I then transfer the ripped files from Unitiserve to my NAS (Netgear ReadyNAS Duo) and streamed thru Unitiserve, sound quality was comparable.
3. After that I copied some Apple Lossless files (ripped from the same CD, using itune) to my NAS and streamed it thru Unitiserve, sound quality was not that much different from that of my MacMini(Apple Lossless)+Hiface setup.
4. Ripped the same CD using itune in WAV format, then transferred them to NAS and stream. Slightly better than my MacMini(Apple Lossless)+Hiface setup, but not by a big margin. The Unitiserve is still way better.
5. Use the Unitiserve as a CD transport - play direct (no ripping) from it. Very good sound quality, comparable to 1. (the salesman at the shop said he found it even better than rip n play from Unitisever's hard disk, I do think the two are quite similar though.)
The Unitiserve is definitely a very good product and even my wife can tell the difference between it and my current setup. I am not a technical guy but my impression is that both the ripping process and the handling of the transfer of the data file to digital output contributed to the improvement in sound quality. In order to get the best out of it, you need to rip and play, not just streaming non-natively ripped files. The problem with me is that it can not recognize/display Chinese characters(album/artists/track info etc) and I have quite a collection of Chinese CDs that can not be ripped or streamed by Unitiserve!