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.
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@oddiofyl Have you by chance compared listening to files played from your Vault to files directly from the N200? Did you hear any differences? |
My Aurender and Vault are in different systems. I can't really compare the two but I can say that .flac files pulled from the Vault played flawlessly and sounded excellent on my main system. I still think my transport sounds better than the Aurender with 44.1k material. The Aurender plays from a memory cache and sounds great whether its a stream, memory stick, USB drive .... all sound good with the Aurender.
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@oddiofyl Interesting you mentioned "I still think my transport sounds better than the Aurender with 44.1k material." I still own and stream allot of 44.1k material and think the same the same thing, but assumed it was my sub-par Streamer. It has made it difficult to leave disc-spinning behind. Thanks for input. |
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