With Network media player is fast gaining momentum to be a popular household media device, I create this topic to gather the feedback from mainly the Hi Fi players who can give feedbacks on its Audio quality, after connecting the device in existing Hi Fi system.

Anyone has done any comparison test would also be greatly appreciated.

It should be different. I think due mostly to circuitry quality and decoding capacity. But it could only be apparent if the media is connected to a fairly efficient Audio system with good speakers.

So far, other than the video file type and audio file type handling, none has been said about its audio quality.

Video quality on the other hand, was much more emphasised.

You mean even for the mp3's, or flac files, or the normal wav files will not be decoded in anyway before being played thru the media player?

I do understand that the DTS etc are mostly being pass through without any processing.

Thanks. Almost all the items with good audio decoding appeared to be pretty rare on our shore.

There are lots of made in China products around now.. it seems that no one has done any audio comparison among them.

Ic.

My curiosity is this, if we were to set up the chain like this :

NAS > HTPC > AMP > speakers.

vs

NAS > Media Player > AMP > speakers

my common sense tells me that this media player will play a role in affecting the quality of the audio files. As compared to the HTPC, of course the media player will have a shorter signal route with less interference due to the simplicity of the circuitry itself I suppose. Am I right in saying that?

So the Media Player will have its role in making it sounds better or worst. Has anyone compared that before?