Well, I have to throw my hat in the ring for Aurender. I set mine up and haven’t had any issues since and that is probably 2-3 years ago. I find the conductor app. to be easy to use and I’m very pleased with the sound. Would love to have a W20 but it’s way too rich for my blood. On the other hand, Jim Salk @ Salk Sound has developed a custom hand built unit that is quite affordable and offers very unique features hmmm......
Aurender vs. Roon
I would greatly appreciiate any input on something I was told yesterday by a learned audiophile. A) that aurenders conductor app is inferior to roon. That is probably a given. However, I thought Roon will interact with the conductor app. so if that is the case then you can have the best of both worlds. Also, Roon has better audio quality the Aurender? Aside from that, is the landscape moving toward Roon? Reason I ask is I have been looking at Aurender streamers to purchase and there seems to be more and more of them for sale on Audiogon and US Audio Mart etc. Is it possible Roon Ready devices are going to be the newest frontier so why bother with Aurender if they are not going to support it? Thanks in advance for any insight or suggestions.