Cleve Wrote: > Here's a review of the McIntosh MS300 music server. Sounds like it makes a nifty $5100 boat anchor:
If you run out of disc space, you can't add another hard drive - you have to buy another $5100 component, LOL There were dropouts playing directly from the HDD. What's that about? The drive can't serve up 800 kb/s cleanly? You have to run ethernet to the playback location, or you won't get CD info lookup - even so, the lookup was inaccurate and incomplete, especially for classical discs. The thing is useless without a video display. And if you use a modest LCD like a 15", you'd probably still have to walk over to it to read the small fonts. The generic remote was cheesy and hard to use. Beginning and end of some tracks were chopped off. Recording of internet streams is purposely crippled. FLACs created and served with it sounded worse than CDs. BUT the reviewer said it makes for a fine-sounding CD player if you just want to play a CD from the tray. I dunno, this really struck me as funny. Gee, for $5100, you could get your whole house wired for ethernet, buy 5 SB3s, a terabyte of storage with RAID on a high-end server, AND have Slim rip and tag a few thousand CDs for you. -- Pale Blue Ego ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Pale Blue Ego's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=110 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=21700 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
