Recent content by Bill Allen

I finally got around to importing my 4TB+ music library, took 10 hours, another 2 for Sense to finish compiling. Decided to pull the music from my archive drive vs a questionable network transfer from my Roon Rock ... I wanted it raw! This USB spinner is an absolute mess of random unorganized...

Woke up today in Kona, HI to sunshine, fresh coffee, and Sense 3.3.0. Performed my normal post update ritual, unplugged all cables from the Zen Streamer, re-powered 'everything' including my Ubiquiti router. Queued up my favorite Qubuz playlist, whoa, Innuos has indeed re-raked my Zen Garden...

Yes it's hard to be clear with only a few words, an analogy. First off, I'm suggesting there is only one Zen Streamer. LIke the picture above, you can start with a basic Zen Garden, adding features should not change the name. I suggest they drop the NG! I mean look at the fossil record of...

I see the Zen Series Streamers as a never ending pursuit of musical perfection, never fully achievable, but with continued stilling or pacifying of external noises one could reflect on a near approximation. The Zen Streamer should be totally customizable, add, or even remove features to match...

The Innuos Zen Streamer Imagine if you will a Zen Garden, various material features surrounded by small stones, raked to perfection to achieve harmony with its surrounding that one can reflect upon. If one built a new garden would you name it a 'next-gen' Zen Garden? No ... size...

I am tiptoeing through the tulips here, but the sound quality changed immediately after I installed the two 4TB storage drives. Darker, with less leading edge attack, I was forced to swap over to a 'solid silver' AQ Diamond USB cable just to liven things back up. This cast a shadow on my mood...

With the next-level-sound firmly planted in my head ... time to pop the hood on this hot-rod 4 bolt main. Where the heck is that OS SSD that runs on 1/3 watt, there it is hiding in the corner, a thumbnail sized 120GB SataDOM. Very surprising, very clever! Dead center sits the massive heat...

OK I've been too busy listening to worry about storage SSD's. While there was some ups and down sound quality wise as it ran-in, my Zen Ng finally settled down after a week of 24 hour play, having never stopped once on its own. (A hat trick my Roon Severs could never pull off) I found .75m...

Thanks for clarifying my concerns regarding M.2 SSD drives for music storage. Unfortunately for me the WD RED M2's top out at 4TB size, as I explained I need 8TB, Western Digital does make the Black 8TB without heatsink. What are your thoughts on this drive? For those following along that...

While I was still pondering what 8TB SSD to use in the M.2 expansion port the UPS delivery man arrived with my Zen NG. My hard drive storage concerns can wait, let's fire this puppy up! Took less then 10 minutes to unbox, sign into Tidal & Qobuz, imports my online playlists, and press play...

Good stuff Stephen. That's why plugging a storage SSD straight into the PCIe directly adjacent to the OS SSD is super critical. That brings us to M.2 drives. I have nearly 6TB of music stored on a Sata SSD inside my Roon Rock, without access to the internal PCIe buss I am forced to focus on a...

Understood! No doubt Innuos spent endless hours perfecting the balance of the NG's and the last thing you need is someone installing a jack hammer of a SSD directly into the PCI bus on the motherboard. I have measured many SSD's and Jack Hammer is not an exaggeration at this level of the game...

Long time owner of Zen Mini MkIII & Phoenix USB, awaiting the arrival of my new Zen NG w/SPDIF Card. (No internal storage drives fitted) I would like to install my own SSD storage but the website does not clearly explain the location & arrangement of the internal SDD's. I understand there are...