Ouch, this stings a little. As an owner of a MC600, I would have liked this info a couple months ago. I guess we now know what is keeping the lights on at Meridian.

Also, why stop at QNAP? It's not like QNAP's NAS technology is anything especially cutting edge. Why not just open it up. Presumably, Meridians offing is just a plugin.

QNAP's Long List of Plug Ins

Most of these NAS hardware manufacturers have these plugin options. Not sure I get the point of locking it down to QNAP.

Primary: MD600, MS200 (SpeakerLink to AES), Trinnov ST-2, Ayre V6-xe, Salk SS8 3x LRC.
Secondary: MC600 (whole house).
Zone one: 568.2, G57, MS200, Spatial Hologram M2SE.
Zone 2-6 (Awaiting assignment).