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I was having one of those evenings when you sit back relax and put on some amazing music to take you into that place of karmic zen. I was reliving the wonders of Portishead - Dummy (a truly amazing album). I love this album and Roads is by far one of the most beautiful songs I have ever heard. My issue with it though are all the pops and crackles. But it's not their existence that bother me they give the song soul and feel. My concern is how it's affecting my speakers. I don't like funny noises, clicks, buzzes coming from my speakers they make me think my tweeters are yet again blown (I have gone through a fair few on lesser non audiophile systems) Another album I am always cautious of turning up the volume on is Kanye West - 808's and Heartbreaks due to the noises that make you think your speakers are about to blow. I'm running my music as either FLAC (24/******) or Apple Lossless (16/44100) through Linn Majik DS which is hooked up to a Roksan Kandy k2 -> Bowers and Wilkins CM5's which are perfectly matched power wise. I rarely take it above 50% volume as I don't want to damage a pair of £800 speakers. Can sounds like these create excess stress and potentially damage the speakers or am I just being overly cautious and paranoid at every abnormal sound I hear? I greatly appreciate anyones 2pence/cents on this.

Running the Drobo FW800. Almost got the Majik DS-I but would have resulted in my Kandy K2 being obsolete. Will defiantly read your review. The droboshare allows apps such as : http://www.drobo.com/droboapps/downloads/index.php?id=14 Also would I need to reformat my drives, they are currently OSx Extended Journaled)?

I currently have all my music in apple lossless and FLAC (for 24bit) stored on my Drobo (running 2x 1TB Western Digital Blacks) I have the drobo hooked up to my iMac in which I run twonky media server to stream it to the Linn Majik DS. I don't like leaving my mac on all the time and it gets annoying when the media server doesn't start up properly because of the constant start/stop so I was looking at the Droboshare. Unfortunately I have only heard bad comments about this piece of hardware saying its slow. However speed isn't an issue as long as it's capable of streaming 24/192 files without ruining my listening experience. Has anyone had any experience of using the drobo+droboshare as a media server? Any input will be greatly appreciated.