8/1/2023 0 Comments Songkong reviewThe second port is the player port, if you are using a network player instead of a USB-DAC (like a Naim ND5XS for example) you connect your Naim to the Player port and the N100 acts like a switch and isolates the Naim from the network, it still has full access to the outside world, but it is isolated from noise and pollutants on the network to help improve performance, it’s a great function and it works really well. The other 2 USB sockets can work in a variety of ways, when you connect a drive into them the front panel asks how you want to use the connected drive, to import music from, to use as a back up or to act as an expansion drive, nice and easy.Īs with all Melco’s there are 2 ethernet ports on the rear panel, the LAN port is for connecting to your network/router. In terms of connectivity the N100 has 3 USB sockets, 1 on the front panel and 2 on the rear, one of the rear sockets is a dedicated USB-DAC connection. An as an example I have a folder on one of my demo machines with 132 HD albums, this folder is 155GB in size so it is more than double the space of conventional CD rips. Whilst a 2TB drive may seem small for storing music these days in reality it is plenty for most people’s collections.Ī 2TB HDD will easily hold the best part of 3500 albums, downloaded HD music takes quite a bit more space than conventional CD’s so that can eat into the storage somewhat but 2TB is fine for most users. The N100 features a single 2TB hard drive, mounted in the same anti-vibration hard drive cradle you will find in the much more expensive N1ZH, N1ZS and N10 machines, this cradle is designed to ensure the hard drive is isolated from vibrations and to help offer the very best performance. Priced at £2000 the N100 is a brilliant product, build quality is fantastic and the architecture and software that drives it is identical to all the other Melco models, this is no half-measure compromised machine and it has won plenty of awards since its launch. The N100 visually matches the D100 Optical Drive, E100 Expansion Drive and the new S100 Dataswitch. The N1A has traditionally been the entry level Melco model has been incredibly popular, but last year Melco launched the half width N100 to sit below it in the range at a new entry point. With the 3rd generation of machines now upon us with the all new EX software and the Melco Intelligent Music Library the functionality has now improved even further. Melco have been the go to choice for music servers here at Audio Therapy for the past 3 years and for good reason, at each step of their range they offer superb performance, great features and functionality and are really ease to use.
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