Media Server Reviews

Music Server: IBM X30 laptop with 1.2GHz Pentium 3 processor, 788MHz system board, 760MB RAM, and 80GB hard drive running Windows XP (v.2002, Service Pack 2). WiFi network comprises D-Link Airplus Extreme G DWL-G640 Wireless 108g Notebook PCMCIA adapter with D-Link DSL-G800 AP Wireless Range Extender. Music-server music library: "My Music" subdirectory on IBM X30 laptop. Music-server software: Windows Media Connect 2.0, Firefly, Slim Devices SlimServer.
Analog Sources: Day-Sequerra Signature 1 Reference, McIntosh MR-78 FM tuners.
Digital Sources: Krell KRC-28 CD player; Sony SCD-C555ES multichannel SACD/CD player; Slim Devices Squeezebox network music player; Bryston B100-DA, Adcom GDA-700 D/A converters.
Preamplifiers: Bryston B100-DA, Krell KCT, VTL TL-6.5.
Power Amplifiers: Bryston 4B-SST & B100-DA, Mark Levinson No.334, Krell FPB-600c, VTL S-400.
Loudspeakers: Quad ESL-989, Revel Ultima Salon, Velodyne DD-18; REL Studio III subwoofers.
Cables: Digital: Wireworld Starlight coaxial. Interconnect: Red Rose Silver Ones, Krell CAST, Mark Levinson Silver single-ended, Bryston balanced. Speaker: Ultralink Excelsior 6N OFHC, Coincident Speaker Technology CST 1.
Accessory: RadioShack 33-2050 analog sound-pressure-level meter.—Larry Greenhill