All work and no play...
I'll try and answer some of the things discussed.
FLAC 5.1 24/96 verified into the HD621. The sound is fantastic!
FLAC 2ch into the HD621. Should compare well to the Oppo or other well made HDMI transport.
GUI for music playback, No it's nowhere near Sooloos in control and management of songs. Right now, think of it as a file directory of your music collection, nothing more. If you turn icons on you can have the coverart shown, BUT this is mostly a manual process, nothing is automated at this point.
What I find myself doing is to make a .m3u playlist of my favourites on my computer and play that playlist from the Dune. It's propably worse than squeezebox in this area. But squeezebox can't do FLAC 5.1 or Blu-Ray
Blu-Ray image quality should be near or comparable to the Oppo, one user could not see the difference. (I have not directly compared them so I can't comment).
As for NAS:
I would recommend a QNAP 459Pro/659 Pro if you're serious about getting audio and video stored centrally on a RAID5 and don't want to spend time managing your storage. If you need more storage just add another box when you need to.
Backing up your NAS is done mainly with a second NAS box from the same brand, check that it will do what you want before buying. This is a value add that the manufacturer might charge for or have included.
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