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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?

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Congrats on your Aries! I've run an Aries Mini for 5 years now with no complaints. The only negative I've heard on the Aries is that some of them have needed their wireless cards replaced. The Auralic support forums are a great place to do some reading some very good folks there.

https://community.auralic.com/
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No noise from my Aries Mini whatsoever.
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@ghosthouse Glad to hear you’re still digging your Mini and don’t worry I always get blamed ;) And I am with you curious about a G1 in my case mostly because my Mini is now 5 years old wondering how long a lifespan it has.


@kmmd Agreed the Auralic forums are a nice place to hang out and I think LDS is one of the best streaming apps out there.
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Here is the thing about noise floor the noise floor of a device like a streamer is likely considerably lower than the noise floor of the amp you're using. So perhaps it's a lower noise floor but likely its just a better more transparent component.
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My Aries Mini did fine with wifi almost never a dropout now it's hardwired and even more rock solid.
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