Melco N1Z/2EX-H60 Server

This digital music library from Japanese company Melco offers a simple space saving way to play and store your large CD collections. It comes in very good condition, with original factory packaging, mains cable, Schuko cable, ethernet cable, USB cable and of course our standard 3-month warranty.
Melco Say….
The only Hi-Res digital music source for every application. New EX Series with Melco Intelligent Music Library for simple and powerful browse and search.
Melco will store your Hi-Res or CD-quality music and stream to a network streamer. The unique Melco PLAYER Ethernet port enhances sound quality compared to computer or conventional NAS storage by eliminating any IT components in the music path.
Melco will play your Hi-Res or CD-quality music into a USB DAC with no configuration – simple plug and play. Melco supports all Hi-Res formats with astonishing sound quality.
Internet streaming sites can be played in standard or Hi-Res into a USB DAC. Melco uses unique data reconstruction that significantly lifts the sound quality of streams which have been right around the globe.
Melco additionally supports streaming of both locally stored music and network-stored music on PC or NAS and streaming sources to multi-room systems. Multi-room support at the same time as all the other functions.
The Melco music library provides archival storage of digital music including all Hi-Res formats with playback into both network streamers and USB DAC.
Built in Japan to the highest standards, Melco combines extreme high performance with simplicity of installation and operation, and avoids the need for computers in the audio process.
All Melco models avoid the obvious compromises of using IT components for hi-fi playback, revealing the true capabilities of today’s Hi-Res music formats.
Melco is not a modified computer in a nice case – it is designed from the outset as a high-performance audiophile source with attention to detail ensuring an extremely low noise and low jitter environment, in a low vibration chassis with simple control from the front panel or Melco App, with audio performance worthy of the finest audiophile systems.
Everything about Melco is simple: simple music importing, simple CD importing and archiving, simple music downloading without a PC, simple safety backups, simple capacity expansion for the largest music collections.
EX series with Melco Intelligent Music Library extends simplicity to browsing your music collection, even if Classical or Jazz. Welcome to Melco – the only truly audiophile Hi-Res music source and library.
Conventional IT music servers connect to the residential computer network to gather and distribute music.
This severely limits the performance of network-connected music players or streamers due to the action of network switches and presence of unwanted data streams.
Melco has the dedicated PLAYER port; music is internally cleaned and rebuilt and unwanted traffic is eliminated, resulting in a huge sound quality improvement.
Internally stored music, whether HDD or SSD, is protected by a journalled data storage system and the dataflow is more akin to a high-end CD transport than a high speed burst-data noisy computer system.
Melco also connects to the network for control, and also for access to streaming services such as TIDAL and Qobuz.
ISOLATED operation allows the use of network streamers without any network connection for extreme performance.
Melco will play into a USB DAC with auto selection of down sampling to match the DAC capabilities if necessary. DSD can also be converted to 32-bit PCM if the DAC does not support DSD, or if the DAC internally converts DSD to PCM.
Advanced DACs capable of supporting marker less DSD are catered for as well as up to 384 kHz/32-bit PCM and Octo DSD. Control of the USB DAC player is from the Melco App, most DLNA or OpenHome Apps on Android, Apple or PC / Mac, the from the Melco front panel display.
Music on drives or USB flash drives is easily imported with one button press.
Melco’s internal music library and also all user settings are conveniently backed-up on a USB-connected HDD. A single button press initiates a full incremental backup. Restore of music or data is a single button press.
All Melco music libraries offer substantial capacity for growing collections. As a collection approaches the capacity of the Melco, an expansion drive can be added to increase capacity without the need for any settings. Operation is confirmed on the front panel display.
Hi-Res music downloads from partner vendors can import directly into the Melco rather than into a PC and then needing to be located and moved on the network. Aside from the convenience, this allows Melco to verify the file integrity as well.
Hi-Res music playback normally requires an IT network or Wi-Fi. Melco will play into a network streamer even though there is no network – the Melco creates the necessary connectivity. Melco will also play into a USB DAC without any need for a network – an iPad or tablet PC can still be used to browse and play music and connects directly to the Melco, or the Melco front panel can be used to select music for play.
Digital music has been with us since the introduction of CD. With the constant advancement of file formats and increasing resolution, computers have long been able to play digital music. But improved data formats conceal the reality that computers are unable to play music to audiophile standards. No audiophile would ever seriously play a CD on a computer other than as background music. CD players simply perform so much better.
The same is true for Hi-Res digital music. You could use a computer, but Melco performs so much better.
Everything about Melco is dedicated to sound quality, from the audiophile-grade power supplies to create an electrically silent environment, to the clocked data structure exactly as in a high-end CD player, the Melco has none of the multi-purpose characteristics of computers – fast noisy data paths, multi-threaded processors and burst data – all fast, designed for high-speed office processing or gaming, not for the simple delicate task of playing music.
Not all computers look like computers though – some alternatives to Melco are based on hobby-level computer platforms, tell-tale signs being unnecessary RS232 or VGA ports, for example.
The internal construction of Melco is not an adaption of any IT component such as a data PC or an IT data server – it is designed and built for audio, and only audio.
Digital music storage and replay requires use of software – in the case of Melco this is dedicated to music playback of the finest quality, and is written by the specialist design team at Melco in Japan. There is no equivalent for computer use as those requirements all centre around multi-media A/V experiences. Melco is dedicated for high-end audio only.
As well as a dedicated high-quality playback environment Melco addresses the importing of existing digital music from other environments such as CD. Because Melco is not a general purpose computer it is not supplied with a CD loader – that would be an internal IT device of limited performance and reliability. So we support connecting a simple external CD loader or optical drive with Melco CD Import software, but for high-quality archival loading we have the D100 which ensures that a CD import is the best possible and cannot be bettered.
Some Hi-Res music sites now allow direct import into Melco without the need for a PC, not only very convenient but also, the Melco is able to make a quality check on the data and correct any errors – not possible when downloading onto a PC.
Since launching in 2014, the Melco N1 series has become the established benchmark. The de-facto standard in Hi-Res music serving and storage. As our range extends, the N1 series becomes no less established in its music delivery and still maintains its darling status with the audiophile awards judges. Timelessly packaged, any N1 makes the perfect heart of your system.
Melco’s high-end Z series chassis is housed in a substantial extruded aluminium case (black and silver) with an internal rigid H frame for vibration isolation with Melco’s heavy brass HS3 drive mounting. Low noise is ensured with twin power supplies and audio-grade film capacitors and power filters. New processing logic with precise slow data-writing and accurate high-speed data retrieval and self-integrity check contributes to exceptional audio performance and stability.
Specifications:
Music Storage: 2 x selected SFF HDD 3 TB – Total 6 TB
Network Connectivity: LAN Port-Gigabit Ethernet (1000Base-T); PLAYER port; Gigabit Ethernet (1000Base-T); DHCP server in isolated mode
USB Connectivity: USB2.0 port USB-DAC dedicated; USB3.0 backup port; USB3.0 expansion port; USB3.0 port for music import & CD drive
USB Player File Support: DSF, DFF, FLAC, WAV, ALAC, AIFF, AAC
USB Player Sample Rate Support: 16 – 32-bit (PCM) to 384 kHz – auto down-sampled to suit connected DAC; Gapless PCM supported; 1-bit (DSD) to 11.3 MHz Quad DSD; Marker-less DSD supported; DSD to 32-bit PCM conversion selectable; Gapless DSD supported.
Power Supply: 100 – 120 VAC, 220 – 240 VAC; 50/60 Hz
Power Consumption: 60 W (Max.)
Dimensions: 350 (W) x 370 (D) x 75 (H) mm
Weight 8.5 kg

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