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| Aurender N200 Congratulations and welcome to the Aurender family! TMR is also great to work with. Make sure you break the unit in for a few days before giving any initial impressions. You can just loop music or noise tracks nonstop for a few days and you’ll be ... | |
| Bookshelf vs diffuser panel. Who wins? It doesn’t accomplish the same thing but it might do the job you need it to do. Most formal diffuser panels are designed to scatter frequencies in a fairly uniform way, and many of them work from the midrange up. Properly placed, they will reduce ... | |
| Yamaha CD S1000 or S2100 as transport @output555 It's my pleasure. I find it fascinating how bad the product marketing is for most brands/manufacturers. Just a little bit of effort to help describe the benefits of each step up in their lines and a comparison chart would go a long way ... | |
| Aurender N200 @oddiofyl I’m an authorized Aurender dealer and am currently helping out two other A’goners decide on units, both are considering the N200. The N200 is an incredible value for a standalone streamer. Not only does it easily eclipse the Bluesound.... | |
| Yamaha CD S1000 or S2100 as transport @output555 In full transparency I am a dealer (and audiophile first) but do not represent or sell Yamaha. I’ve owned both units but didn’t A/B them to an external DAC, so take this with a grain of salt. I’m actually not convinced that the drive... | |
| Streamlining streamers @atlvalet In full transparency I am an authorized Aurender dealer. That said, I try to be as unbiased as possible in my responses across the forum. As said above, I used to own the M50.2. It was actually quite a good streamer and server in its da... | |
| Streamlining streamers I used to own the NAD M50.2 myself, and it was a massive step up from using the streamer in the Bluesound, both which were already hooked into a Luxman DA-06 and PS Audio DirectStream DAC at the time. If the living room is your new dedicated space... | |
| Aurender N20 vs N200 with a Berkeley Reference DAC 3 and Berkeley USB Interface Box @dciraldo I am an authorized Aurender dealer. The N20’s OXCO clock is a very high quality one and is worth using. You will get the best possible results sonically from you unit using it. Luckily your Berkeley also prefers an AES input, it should b... | |
| Toggle between amps Both options presented can work. If you plan to leave the amps on, a switch will be required, but if you plan to enable signal output by turning the amps on and off, a signal splitter is all you need. IMO you can get better signal quality throug... | |
| T+A elektroakustik HV Series Components @david_ten Thanks for the context. I 100% agree with your comments on the V / line stage section of this unit. I owned the P 3000 HV prior, and the preamp in the SDV is just as good if not better. I’ve never heard a preamp like it, and I’ve demoed... | |
| T+A elektroakustik HV Series Components @david_ten It’s actually really nice to hear from someone else who owns the SDV 3100 HV. I have not heard it with the Taiko, but I own the Aurender N30SA and the pairing is exceptional as well. That said, using the internal streamer in the SDV 310... | |
| T+A elektroakustik HV Series Components @david_ten Thanks for sharing. It’s great to finally see a great review on the DAC 200 from a U.S. source. This unit has been one of my best sellers, and I truly think it outperforms DACs up to twice its price or more. It is so natural and effortl... | |
| Sound quality of Roon @sonicfanatic "Timing" does not result in music going faster or slower - it is more about the interpretation of the data which as a result makes imaging more solid, or in the case of poor timing/clocking, makes the imaging sound more flabby or loo... | |
| Upsizing Capacitors @rickysnit It’s typically not good practice to increase the capacitance of any circuit by itself without adjusting the design of the rest of a circuit. In some cases, people may do so say in a speaker crossover, but it can introduce both improve a... | |
| Sound quality of Roon @sonicfanatic I always say bits are not just bits. Yes 0s and 1s are passed from a source and received at the destination, but the final result also considers timing (clocking) and the amount of noise (jitter, interference, power supply ripples, y... |