Thanks Dave, I am lucky enough to have heard a lot of equipment in the last few years and lots of configurations using DACs, servers and NAS. I know some folk run MacBooks with Audirvana into DACs and get very good results and would like to compare this set up against a dedicated music server and see if there is a big difference.
I like the idea and convenience of products like the Melco and the Innuos servers and again wonder if they are a better digital audio implementation rather than a more complicated separate music server, router, music player and NAS or hooked up via Ethernet cables. An all in one server gets rid of a lot of connections and possible routes for RFI!