Anyone using the McIntosh MS500?

I use remote almost exclusively.

Synology has their own RAID, and hyper back up. How do you back up these expensive streamers?

Are you suggesting that SSD keeps you from needing redundancy for data?

My RAID is no longer accessible due to Synology no longer supporting USB. Are these dedicated streamers arrays or single drive?

Anyone have experience using OPPO BDP-103 as streamer? I would have to move everything around and now I'd be competing with TV room for listening. Currently, TT2 is in wine loft. Would also lose use of my tube amp

Thanks for all the replies. I must have been incorrectly under the impression optical wasn't able to support the higher resolution files greater than 24/96 and DSD. I have as few DSD and 192/24 So must get USB streamer... Will need to get something on the cheap until after we move.

Maybe this is a lack of knowledge on my part, inputs on back of unit are USB, Optical and BNC?

Bad News, Bad News this is just terrible! Synology announced they will be discontinuing USB support with their new DSM 7.0 update. This will render my TT2 with no way to get hi res files. I've already complained but they seem not that interested in a work around. Short of buying a new source...

Ding, ding, ding... If I weren't on this forum zero.

I think the "need" for inter-connects will keep me from an M-Scaler

Thanks @JasonNYC this will help a lot.

Mine is doing it connected or not.

Most animals, unlike most humans, can move their ears. Therefore they hear in 3D. FYI

Ah, ah "Paul 2Qute" Choo Being an "old head" who went from stereo to Dolby surround to 5.1. The discreet center channel cannot be replaced by stereo. You can hear it sure, does it work, yes. Is it the same nope, not even close. Encoding is different. It may have to do with what is sent to the...