Sounds great. . .
After six weeks; so far, so good. I’m only using this as a server/DAC. . . I spent almost four days loading 388 CDs in wav format into a 1 TB Samsung 850 Pro SSD I installed in the unit. The unit froze after I ripped the first compact disc but after a reboot I’ve had no problems of that nature since. The good news is the sound is as good as the CDs sound from a player. The only complaint is the meta data is not shown reliably on Rose Connect. . . about 40 disc show as “unknown”. I thought I could correct that later, but if you don’t edit while ripping, you are; for the moment, out of luck. Hopefully this will be corrected in later updates. (UPDATE: after two software updates to Rose Connect I can now edit the photo, album and artist name.) No issues connecting to Network either through cable or Wi Fi. I love that I can use Rose Connect through my PC instead of trying to deal with a phone app. One other quirk while ripping disc was that every 4 or 5 disc it would revert to the home screen and then do a media search update. . . when you returned to the CD ripping screen it would require you to select the SSD, as if it forgot you only have one SSD inside the unit. This got old in a hurry, but you keep plugging along and eventually I got all the disc ripped to the drive. HiFi Rose seems to be trying to make their customers happy but of course some of these software tweaks require time to achieve. Getting Rose Connect to operate reliably will apparently take a little time but progress is being made. Very good looking display on the unit and easy to read from average viewing distances. All in all I recommend this unit, I had seriously looked at some more expensive competitors and I am happy with my decision to purchase a HiFi Rose RS151.
