Regrettably it’s software is proprietary, which means that if I want to expand my HD I need to buy Melco HDs and daisy chain them. The Melco comes with a 3TB HD and that should be adequate for a while. I can in most cases go to my shelves and find the relevant CD before I can locate it in Bipolar Bison. The Bryston sounds far better, has been more reliable, but the Manic Moose program is terrible. My first streamer is Bluesound, which is reasonably priced, will stream high resolution recordings, but I had some reliability issues. I still enjoy playing CDs, and the only reason that I wish to move them to a HD is that in a few years I anticipate we will be moving to smaller digs and I don’t want to clog the new place with my collection (I will still have SACDS and Blu Rays to store). He seems like a stand up guy with great reviews from the site, and he is giving me a fair credit value for the Bryston, but still I always wish that I had a real person in front of me. Melco dealers are thin on the ground here and I am dealing with a vendor in Connecticut. Melco is touting their current management system (a combination of Minim Server and SongKong) as being geared to CM, and after watching a few You Tube Videos it does look a lot more promising. As will be familiar to most of us who have tried to burn any CDs to any HD, the music management systems are geared to pop, and while one can edit the files, it is a time consuming and often frustrating process, and with a large CD collection it just isn’t feasible. The main reason for this is the Music File management software. I just made the decision to swap my Bryston BDP3 streamer for a Melco Server/Streamer.
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