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Streamer recommendation

Hi all. 
 

Looking for a streamer recommendation. I love my primary system. Have an Aurender W20 with their additional master clock feeding into my D’Agostino Momentum HD and M400 amps to drive my Wilson Benesch Resolutions with REL 32’s. Have that for my primary space. 
 

Had a great opportunity to build a secondary system in a huge room that is our living room, family room, and kitchen for listening while entertaining or even just casually during the day. I have a pair of Focal Diablo Utopias (and a B&w DB1-D for a sub) fed by a Gryphon Diablo with their integrated DAC. Also using the theater pass through to run a 7.1 home theater using a Marantz Cinema 30. I have very limited space to keep the wife happy. It’s an open room so do t want a bunch of stuff cluttering her area. 


The Gryphon is tucked away in a AV console with the center channel and the Marantz and Ethernet switch are in a pantry closet.  Would like to have a decent streamer. Love the aurender conductor app. Would like some build in storage space to keep the music files built in. Would a Bluesound Vault be enough?  Should I just bite the bullet and get another aurender like an N200?  Or are there some more reasonably sized ones you like?

Your input is greatly appreciated!

wjcasey3rd
ghdprentice
8,005 posts
 

Come on Casey. You know the answer to that question. The Aurrender. The rest of your equipment shows you are not into cutting corners. I am sure you have proven to your sell that the high quality stuff is worth it. If you get a BlueSound... you will be wondering and eventually brake down and get a Aurender. 

I have a W20SE for my main system, a N100 for my headphone system and a Bluesound Node for miscellaneous components... which I swap around and use for breakin. 

The Bluesound is a great sounding sub $1k streamer. But it is not in the same category as the lower tier Aurender. 

 

 

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audphile1
5,664 posts
 

Aurender N200 is really nice. Use a high quality USB cable to feed the Gryphon DAC module and you’re set. 

gramophone_canada
64 posts
 

Have a look at the Volumio Rivo +. Connected to your Gryphon DAC - awesome and not expensive.

bassbuyer
497 posts
 

Consider Innuos.  They make excellent streamers.  They just upgraded their line.  They have built in storage up to several TBs with a CD ripper so you can store any CDs you may have.  Their Sense app is easy to use with Qobuz.  Qobuz has now added Innuos so you can select the Innuos as the output from your Qobuz app too.  

mahler123
3,626 posts
 

For giggles why not get a Wiim?  It will be way out of line price wise with everything else but it probably won’t cost more than your cheapest interconnect.  The app is fun and you might be surprised at the results.  If not go back to Aurender

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