The best solution is to keep the sensitive D/A parts away from the very noisy spinning hard drives. Further, the QNAP isn't slave to the Meridian network. Meaning that the core would have to share the processing power of the QNAP with other applications requiring the resources of the QNAP NAS. I am not saying it wouldn't work, but I can assure you, it won't sound better. Thinking back to my Naim days. The system backbone that Naim used called Netstreams, always made a point of recommending that operators maintain separate serves for music, Video and other? I have heard others suggest this as well.

Primary: MD600, MS200 (SpeakerLink to AES), Trinnov ST-2, Ayre V6-xe, Salk SS8 3x LRC.
Secondary: MC600 (whole house).
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