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| Aurender N20 Streamer & Holo May DAC vs Analog The N20 is very sensitive to power cables. Use the best you have. | |
| Aurender N20 Streamer & Holo May DAC vs Analog @vonhelmholtz Is there an advantage to an external clock when the Aurender already has a quality clock and the May hasn’t any clock input? Is Silver critical with USB? A 10 mHz external clock helps the internal clock be more accurate. It make... | |
| Aurender N20 Streamer & Holo May DAC vs Analog To get the best out of the N20 you will need: 1. Get a 10mHz 75 Ohm clock, something like After Dark or Chinese will work, no need to spend $1000s, but a quality 75 Ohm clock cable is essential. 2. Hi-End power cable, $3-5k. For DAC too. 3.Silv... | |
| Ferrus, Mytek, gossip please They needn't have bothered to get all dressed up 😄 | |
| Wireworld Platinum Starlight 8 USB There are different grades of copper, silvered/tinned copper and solid silver. Only trial and error can bring the best results. Maybe consider Dueland ready made cable not expensive https://audiolund.com/ | |
| Share Experiences with Ethernet Switches, Ethernet Cables and USB Cables used in Streaming Without doubt the sweet spot is the Aurender N20. Other server/streamers maybe fractionally better but nothing will blow the N20 away. You'll need to spend at least twice the price to get any slight improvement. It also has a master clock input. ... | |
| New AES3/USB interface? How are you connecting because the Mutec only has a single AES output and the speakers need dual AES inputs. Do you connect the second stereo channel via ethernet cable? Denafrips and Audio GD make similar units to the Mutec. | |
| DAC Input Topology I've never for one moment regretted purchasing my N20, it's a fantastic machine that can only be truly appreciated by long term in home listening. Maybe you can get some better sounds by cobbling together this and that with various computer progr... | |
| To preamp or not to preamp. That is the question. There are basically 4 different kinds of preamps. 1. A pot in a box, it can be just a line level resistive rheostat or more favourably, stepped resistors. Totally passive, no mains power. 2. Line level preamp. No gain but a more sophisticated ve... | |
| Is a femto clock important if you aren't using asynch USB? Why would you want to buy a ten year old DAC with ten year old tech? Even if your funds are very limited you can buy a very good Chinese DAC with upto the minute tech. For around $3k you can buy a world class DAC, many cheaper options available. | |
| Aurender N200 @oddiofyl When I play a MQA track into my non MQA DAC it identifies the sample rate as 96k on the DAC but the Aurender says “44.1k MQA This is not correct, 2x 44.1k is 88.2k but MQA doesn't upsample. Maybe do a full shutdown and restart on yo... | |
| Jay’s Audio CDT3-MK3 wins over Aurender W20SE As @bigkidz said the DAC will have a big influence but don’t forget the W20SE has a 10MHz master clock connection. This makes a big difference. Also consider comparing files on the Aurender’s HDD to the CD player because streaming opens another c... | |
| Aurender @vonhelmholtz As said previously I have explored I2s in depth and I wouldn't get hung up on it and think you are buying into older tech such as USB, AES and SPDIF. The USB powerline interference has been mitigated by DACs using Amanero USB Boar... | |
| Aurender @dinov Thank you for sending me SEVEN notifications that I had corrected your inaccurate and grossly misleading post. Aurenders can utilise NAS, but as I said internal drives sound better. I have 4000 CDs (FLAC & WAV) and a few hundred SACDs ... | |
| Aurender @dinov Aurender is not NAS friendly, so I’ll look elsewhere. If there was that option, I’d highly consider Aurender. This is completely incorrect but downloading your files to the Aurender HDD or SSD will improve SQ. |