Perhaps I’m just getting paranoid in my old age! When I had a much more upmarket Naim system I once borrowed a Melco and some very expensive Ethernet cables and really struggled to hear any significant differences so this is bizarre for me. I know the temptation is to think it’s all imagined, but I’m not one to look for differences of these sorts usually preferring the simple life. That was certainly not what I wanted to hear! (Identical Ethernet cables used on both to same switch. To complicate things further, I reconnected my Sony laptop with USB hard drive using Asset which I had been using for the last year, and to me this sounded just a touch more natural and relaxed than either uPnP option on the QNAP NAS which sounded more analytical. To put this into perspective, I would now concede the differences aren’t quite as huge as I’d maybe intimated in my initial amazement at noticing any difference at all, but in my set-up I think do exist.
Asset upnp vs minimserver download#
I usually feel MinimServer has a bit more body to the sound - for example listening to a Brandi Carlile 24/96 download of ‘Every Time I Hear That Song’, when the bass comes in, it seems there is more of it - which can be initially impressive but Asset seems slightly easier to listen to, especially on some vocals. There appears to be pros and cons for both. The latest news is that although I’m still convinced there are differences, it’s less easy now to pick a clear favourite. I have to say I wasn’t expecting so much interest and so many responses to this post and wondered what kind of monster I’d created!
I’m in the process of moving back into my house after a year away and am still unpacking and sorting things.
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