Hi,
I hope someone posts the answer. I have been considering the Sooloos and despite much searching have found little information in the way of how the unit handles classical music metadata. Your post confirms my fear. Meridian use All Music Guide for their metadata and from I was told by a dealer, the Absolute Sound reviewer (who did not mention this issue at all) did tell Meridian that they need to have more fields for classical. Supposedly AMG have data which is not being used by the server vendors (read this in an interview with the AMG people somewhere).
I am experimenting with an Olive Opus which does have multiple fields but the auto entry generally misses things and the interface for editing is slow. I am thinking about going back to a Mac Mini as my server - it's fast, you can edit or enter data manually and NOT let the machine screw things up.
I've also thought about Qsonix but I don't think they handle classical music well, either. The one other system I've tried is Naim and they seem to be okay and geared towards classical. Good luck with finding help.
BTW, you have a nice system. I have MBL speakers and am very enamored of the radial imaging, such as you have with your GPs.
Bill
I hope someone posts the answer. I have been considering the Sooloos and despite much searching have found little information in the way of how the unit handles classical music metadata. Your post confirms my fear. Meridian use All Music Guide for their metadata and from I was told by a dealer, the Absolute Sound reviewer (who did not mention this issue at all) did tell Meridian that they need to have more fields for classical. Supposedly AMG have data which is not being used by the server vendors (read this in an interview with the AMG people somewhere).
I am experimenting with an Olive Opus which does have multiple fields but the auto entry generally misses things and the interface for editing is slow. I am thinking about going back to a Mac Mini as my server - it's fast, you can edit or enter data manually and NOT let the machine screw things up.
I've also thought about Qsonix but I don't think they handle classical music well, either. The one other system I've tried is Naim and they seem to be okay and geared towards classical. Good luck with finding help.
BTW, you have a nice system. I have MBL speakers and am very enamored of the radial imaging, such as you have with your GPs.
Bill