It has another trick up its sleeve in the form of a USB output, another first. Additionally MinimServer, the audiophile’s friend for reasons of metadata and browsing management as well as sound quality, will be shortly available as a very simple installation. The UPnP server is a heavily modified Twonky build that’s optimised for classical browsing and is DSD capable. This is one reason why the N1A sounds so good, the difference between the two approaches is very clear indeed. So the signal goes straight to the streamer yet the streamer can still ‘see’ the network via this path. Melco puts a network connection and a player connection onto its drives and isolates one from the other. This means that the audio signal has to go through a network that is polluted by noise from basic switching power supplies and data for other applications. Commercial NAS drives have to be connected to a switch to get the signal to the streamer, and the streamer has to be connected to the network in order for it to be controlled. As well as paying attention to the engineering of the drive and the way its managed Melco has devised its own unique approach to signal connection. Having spent time with the more affordable HDD variant I am intrigued about the potential of its big brother. There are two Melcos, the N1A that has spinning drives and 4TB of storage and the N1Z with SSD drive and a mere terabyte of space. The advantage is that switched mode produces relatively low heat which increases reliability and longevity for the whole device. The supplies are switched mode types but ‘properly designed’ examples of the art, something that both Chord Electronics and Linn have proved can be done. They don’t have wall warts but use onboard power supplies, which means that they’re earthed. The Melco drives are so audio dedicated that they should be used to store video or pictures, lack of raw speed being the main reason for this. But audio applications do not require speed they require low jitter clocking, low noise and maximum data integrity. A regular NAS is built for speed of data access, it doesn’t need maximum data integrity because it can always re-read the drive if anything crucial is missing. They could have modified a commercial NAS but instead decided to build a ground up design whose aims were fundamentally different to those required in a computer NAS. With an audiophile at the top it seems that it was only a matter of time before Buffalo began building drives dedicated to audio purposes, and the Melco name was revived. The guy who started it became the chairman of Buffalo the Japanese computer peripherals company that specialises in data storage. No power amplifiers ever emerged as the Melco Company moved into IT and computer products and became Buffalo. Maki Electronics Laboratory Co was set up in 1975 to make high mass turntables with outboard motors and silk thread drives along with line level preamplifiers.
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NeST Software is the software division () of SFO Technologies and is part of the NeST Group of companies (With some of the world’s leading corporations as customers, NeST has business operations in the United States, Canada, Japan, Germany, Sweden, the UK and the Middle East, apart from a notable presence in the domestic market.A former turntable manufacturer turned data storage giant has built an audio oriented NAS drive that gives streamers a real shot in the arm. NeST Software (Network Systems & Technologies (P) Ltd) is a technology company which offers customised software and hardware development services for engineering applications and product development services for customers worldwide.
We are really excited by the development of this relationship,” said S Sasi Kumar, president of NeST Software. “With over 1,500 engineers in Technopark, working on cutting-edge technologies in VLSI, hardware design, software and algorithms development, NeST is a natural choice for developing complex audio, video and navigation systems for companies like MELCO.
With software requirements for the transportation sector increasing day by day, NeST considers this relationship to be strategically important for its ambitious growth plans in engineering and software services,” said N Jehangir, vice-chairman and managing director, NeST Group. “The setting up of this exclusive development centre is a milestone in the relationship between NeST and MELCO. I’m indeed happy that an exclusive development centre for MELCO is being established within NeST,” Morikane San said. “We have been working with NeST for over five years and are very impressed with the capability of its engineers and their commitment to quality and delivery.
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