aurender n10 or....?
USB is horrible - you don’t want that. Asynchronous usb has come a long way to date. Even Thorsten Loesch of AMR/iFi fame, recommends usb over s/pdif despite his newly designed s/pdif Purifier :- http://www.digitalaudioreview.net/2016/05/ifi-audios-spdif-ipurifier-debuts-at-fujiya-avic-spring-20... "....... Loesch says this new unit isn’t for everyone. He still recommends end users go with USB should it remain available to them." |
N10 is a amazing digital player with superb iPad app. As previous goner suggested, I love the ease of switching between Tidal and music stored on its internal hard drive. Antipodes garnered some rave reviews, so I would highly recommend the operator to audition both DX and N10 and decide what sounds best with the Berkeley DAC. Mike at Verastarr is a great resource for Antipodes. |
http://www.digitalaudioreview.net/2016/06/reference-grade-roon-with-the-antipodes-dx-gen-2/ I second the Antipodes suggestion. Here's what the chief audio engineer/designer at Antipodes has to say about usb...... "According (to) our man in New Zealand the argument against Ethernet (and for USB) runs like this: compared to Ethernet, USB has the potential to carry more noise from the server to the DAC but generates less of its own noise inside the DAC (think: receiver chips). Ethernet remains a good strategy with a noisy server. However, it can be bested by USB when a low noise server with a decent clock is present. For more tech info on the why, consult Gordon Rankin’s take on USB audio here." |
