Under additional operations in the setup turn MQA pass through off and decoding method to auto. Auralic was one of the original members of the MQA consortium but dropped out after a fall out with the "King" of MQA. Prior to that they had developed their own software version of MQA and that is what is available with Lightning DS if it is still working. Back in the day when I owned a DAC with MQA certification the Auralic software version would trigger the MQA lights on the DAC so it thought it was receiving MQA audio.
Auralic Aries
Since getting my DAC I’ve been using Tidal via my laptop as my primary source, but the noise from the PC usb connection has gotten to be insufferable. So I’ve been looking at some dedicated streamers. The Aurender and Lumin gear seemed to be pretty much out of my budget, so I turned my eye to the Auralic Aries, Cambridge CXN, and Pro-ject Streambox. The onboard DAC and automatic upsampling on the Cambridge didn’t appeal to me, and I had I hard time seeing myself paying over $800 for Pro-ject’s suped up rPi, whereas I’ve read nothing but good things about Auralic. So today I won an auction for a pre-owned Aries with linear power supply for $695 including shipping. How’d I do? Seemed like a reasonable price to me...
Anyone know of any known issues to look out for on a pre-owned unit?
Anyone know of any known issues to look out for on a pre-owned unit?