Need advice on what to purchase to hold 1TB of music and connect to my new Innuos Pulsar.

@chilehed 

Well, I sold it. 

Im lot saying that a LPS used with a NAS doesn't make a difference in SQ

I am saying to appreciate it that far upstream from the audio components would take a system and ears beyond what I have on both things

Understand.  Hope you are correct! Thank you @phishhhhh4 

@grannyring :

The Pulsar is like a Zenith 3 plus Phoenix in sound quality or so I read. Not sure this is really true. I loved my Zenith 3 and will miss its ease if use with internal storage. The Zenith 3 also rips CDs and auto loads them. The Pulsar costs some $1100 more than the Zenith 3 with no CD ripping ability or storage.

I currently have the Zenith MK3. It will go nowhere until it breaks. When the Pulse series came out, I cannot say I did not consider purchasing the Pulsar. I decided against it for these very reasons you describe. Unless of course I had a second system to use, which I don’t. So Zennith remains. And I have owned and used the ZEN, the Phoenix USB, and the Statement in the past. Let’s just say I am back to Zenith and happy with it.

@grannyring, bummer. I just checked the Innuos website and understandably the prices have increased significantly since I bought my Zenith Mk3 back in 2019. If I had to replace it I am not sure what I would do. Like @thyname, I also owned the Phoenix USB but sold it. I only use 60% of the 1TB storage I have on my Zenith but honestly my streaming SQ is so good I rarely play local files. I'm fortunate to have a couple Innuos dealers nearby so if I had to replace it I would do an in-store comparison of the Pulse vs Pulsar and then put the winner up against the Zenith in a home demo. I already have my library backed up on SSD and buying media is mostly in the rear view for me so the server functionality of Zenith is less of a requirement. If Pulsar won the SQ home bakeoff I would connect the SSD to one of the machines on my home network and map it to Pulsar. I'm guessing there would be a SQ compromize compared to playing from a Zenith, but in my case it would only be used for music not found on streaming services or the rare case where my external network to my ISP is down.