Trying to Decide on my next Purchase

Dave and Troy,

Thanks for the prompt response and advice.  In your opinion, is the Innous Zenith SQ noticeably better than the 50.2?   Can you answer my NAD questions :-)

Base on your recommendation and reviews on this site, I will definitely give the Innous Zenith serious consideration.  

Roon is not a consideration.  I tried it and it's great software, but LMS fits my needs well enough.  I have over 16K music files on my NAS with 25 custom playlists of my favorite jazz and old school R&B artists.  I have about 1200 vinyl albums, about 1000 CDs, and a couple of cases of 10-inch reels.  I still, occasionally, rip a vinyl album or song to add to my collection; play a single CD or album; or play a reel when I want to back to the glory days!

Thanks again for the advice.

Regards,

Johnnie

The Innuous is way better sounding then the NAD in our tests a $3,500.00 Zenith MK II came quite close to the $15k Baetis Ref, however, their have been a score of improvements in the current Baetis that pushes that unit up even further in the reference class food chain.

The difference in digital severs is quite spooky and quite honestly we don't really understand why there is so much difference between digital sources but there are. 

The Innous is designed to run Roon, got no idea what you mean by LMS fits my needs well enough. Roon is one of the best music management softwares out there and you can do extensive playlist creation.

If its any considertion we have an nice eight bay QNAS with 21TB in a raid 5 configuration, and yes we still play vinyl, very rarely we will actually spin a CD we do have one of the world's best CD/SACD players the T+A PDP 3000.

Dave and Troy
Audio Doctor NJ

The Innous is designed to run Roon, got no idea what you mean by LMS fits my needs well enough. Roon is one of the best music management softwares out there and you can do extensive playlist creation.

I've been using LMS for a very long time.  LMS works for how I want to listen to and manage my music library; it also allows me to manage my whole house music setup with ease. 

I reviewed Roon and realize it has many features that LMS lacks, and that I can manage my music setup with Roon - but I have no desire to change to Roon or any other music management system.

Are you referring to Logitech Media Server or the LMMS software platform?

My sense is that the bigger decision for you centers around choosing a software platform. Let that drive your component choice.

Innuos does support Squeezebox.

I’m referring to Logitech Media Server.  And you are correct on software being a major factor.

I have Squeezebox Duets and Raspberry PI players all around my house.  I use a Duet with my M12 most of the time.  When listening to Tidal masters, I use the M12’s BluOS module.  

I’m giving the Innuos serious consideration.  With it I could kill two birds with one stone.  Get a CD player for my new gear, which I need, and Squeezebox player, which I don’t really need but would eliminate the need for the Duet.