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.
Android has now been fully upgraded to the same level as Apple. I've used Android Conductor App for almost a year and it never bothered me, because I use Folder View, which lists your ripped files by name only without album covers. Much quicker to search a large library. |
I’m in agreement with @baylinor I have the new node with a Teddy Pardo LPS and it sounds fantastic! I am using the DAC in my Boulder 866 as well. Happy listening! Ron |
I own an N100H 4TB and it has worked flawlessly for me. The N100H is USB only. I have a PS Audio DirectStream Sr. DAC which requires an i2s connection to play anything larger than DSD128. I put a Matrix X-SPDIF 2 DDC in my chain so now I can play DSD256. I have never had a problem with Conductor as well. My music gets backed up to a QNAP NAS every night and I have a 1U Tripp-Lite UPS in my audio rack specifically for my Aurender. |
@vonhelmholtz - glad they are taking care of you. The R2R DAC has everything one could ask for. It is a reference quality DAC. Substituting chokes in place of other parts improved the sound more then we imagined and the use of V-Cap ODAMs took it over the top. We have had almost every DAC on the market at our Listening Room in Northern New Jersey (everyone is welcomed) where we enjoy listening and repairing equipment. Happy Listening. |
