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Back with a short update although way too early for a proper review. Keep in mind that my listening impressions might well be affected by expectation bias. I'll be brief, compared to Manhattan one the upgraded one is better or significantly better on all points except the loss of the FireWire input/output. Soundwise it's clearer and easier to place location of vocals, instruments and other sounds, yet it is smoother. Noise floor seems lower, especially listening through headphones. New menu system is easier to use and it is easier to use in general including the much improved Mytek Control Panel for both MacOS and Windows. Finally, the new USB implentation works much better for Mac (I suppose Linux too) and Windows. For the latter, with both the Win 10 Generic UAC 2 driver and also with the Mytek supplied driver. To sum up, the upgrade is well worth the Money, at least it was for me.

I got my Manhattan back from upgrade this morning. I can confirm that you can disable MQA, which BTW also is stated in the manual since a while. One very pleasant surprise was the new Theatre Bypass function! As for the sound, it's too early to say anything more than my first impression is that smoother and clearer than before the upgrade.

Looking forward to reading the review too then.

Thanks Ted! I read some review, where they were using Aries so should work or have worked perhaps. Looking forward to hear if you get it to work with any of them. On that topic, did you finish the review?

Tried with some older Firmware versions, i.e. 1.0.7 & 1.0.8, with no luck. Still have to try with 1.0.9 but don't have much hope.... It should work according to Jesus and it is indeed the same USB drivers as for the 192, which worked for me as well. May I have to go back to even older FW versions.

Thanks, Firedog. The SMS-100 is supposed to work but for some reason, it doesn't.

Apart from the obvious Windows and OS X devices using drivers from Mytek - Does anyone knows which player/render devices that works with Mytek Manhattan?

Unless you have send it back right away, may I suggest that you give it some time? Also, it's not clear if you tried the headphone output on the Pro-ject. That said, the HD-600 are a bitch to drive.

Hindsight is always 20/20! You're welcome!

That's great! We should have checked what versions each of us were using, right?

Amen! And thanks for sharing.

Glisse, Yes did mean RAID 1, thanks for pointing that out. I partly agree with you but for someone new to NAS, 6 TB of storage will probably last a while. When that is full, one can always create a RAID 0 volume on the disks and restore the data from the backup, right?

A smiley, that's better. Of course it works. sudo route -nv add -net 224.0.0.199 -interface eth0 (or whatever if the NAA is on) For Mac with OS X Internet sharing. i.e. Bridging sudo route -nv add -net 224.0.0.199 -interface bridge100 (or whatever bridge the NAA is on) For Mac with normal multiple networks sudo route -nv add -net 224.0.0.199 -interface en0 (or whatever if the NAA is on) To make it persistent through you have to add it to some startup script that either runs at boot, your login or when you start hqplayer.

The old Mac Mini would still be a good NAA, renderer or DHCP server (LOL) with 32 bit UNIX or Linux, don't you think?

Just want to comment on RAID 1 vs RAID 0. Yes you lose write performance with RAID 1 bur depending on the RAID controller, read performance can be as quick with RAID 1. It's true that RAID 0 does not negate the need for backups but in most cases, such as failure of one disk rather than both, it really does give you an advantage. As for performance when rebuilding a RAID, it depends, it can be very slow and it can be quite fast. For disk systems with lots of write it can take a very long time but for this applications which is probably 95% to 5% write, if not more write, it is usually not that bad. You can fit 2 6 TB disks and even with RAID 0, which gives you 6 TB of storage space, you have plenty unless you already had a NAS or multiple disks in a computer, that us quite some space even if you choose to use uncompressed file formats rather than FLAC or similar. Personally, I've had two disks report problems one different occasions since beginning of 2011 (in a DS1511). I was fortunate enough to get the notice before failure and could replace disks, without any loss and without having to restore. Saved me quite some downtime and as for performance during rebuild of RAID 5, the performance was still good enough for multiple players and LMS as well as a pure file server (NFS and SMB) for XBMC with BluRay rips and all my normal needs. So it's not all black and white and the ability to still use your NAS and not having to restore from a backup, which might be corrupt, RAID 1 and upwards is often quite good. FTR, I also migrated from 2 TB disks to 4 TB disks, that really took a while, but during the conversion the system was up and usable all the time. Cheers