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Aurender

I have a Korean car, watch KDramas and even listen to some KPop, but I don’t get what Aurender is doing.

I’m currently in digital hold given that my new Holo DAC died, but intend on listening to my IFi Zen stream and look at upgrade paths.

Some of the most respected members of this forum swear by Aurender, so it must deliver, but here is my point of confusion:

1. Coax and AES are the preferred outputs, but higher bandwidths require dual AES out, but I don’t have dual in on my DAC.

2. Aurender’s top models claim to have great clocks, so why not pass this on to the DAC via I2s?

3. Top Aurenders accept external clocks and I assume this is used with a DAC that accepts external clocks, but why bother when I2s would take care of this?

4. The argument against I2s is that there isn’t a standard, but this isn’t a problem in most implementations.

I’m sure that I have misrepresented things above, so please correct my understanding.

vonhelmholtz

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bigkidz
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we can repair you Holo DAC if you are looking for that.

 

PM me - we are located in New Jersey.

 

 

bigkidz
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@vonhelmholtz - glad they are taking care of you.  The R2R DAC has everything one could ask for.  It is a reference quality DAC.  Substituting chokes in place of other parts improved the sound more then we imagined and the use of V-Cap ODAMs took it over the top.  We have had almost every DAC on the market at our Listening Room in Northern New Jersey (everyone is welcomed) where we enjoy listening and repairing equipment.

Happy Listening.

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