Aries mini. USB out to your own dac + 1 free year of Tidal. No contest.
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You know, if Auralic just made a player that was compatible with Squeezelite we’d be done! Squeezelite is an open source music player that runs on Linux and makes it behave like a Squeezebox. So many player appliances are based on Linux this is often rather easy to do. It also makes it rather easy to turn a Rasbperry Pi 3 to an Asynch USB 2.0 source. Best, Erik |
OP, are you stuck on Deezer Elite? "Deezer Elite is only available on your Sonos system." So unless Deezer needs to update their website, there's that. If not, I'd say Tidal opens up way more possibilities of compatible hardware. Cheers, Spencer |
Just thought I would respond to this thread as I now own both of these streaming devices. I bought the Auralic Aries Mini first mainly for the DSD capabilities of the unit. Also for the free year of Tidal Hi-Fi that was included in the deal. A nice bonus is that I can now play full 24/192 Tidal MQA content using the USB output on the Aries Mini and the USB input on my MQA-ready Mytek Brooklyn DAC. Sounds fantastic. I recently bought a Node 2 as part of a Sonos replacement setup. The Node 2 is great, but lacks a pass-through MQA function that would allow my external DAC to fully process the MQA signal. I have contacted MQA, Mytek and Bluesound about this and all three companies acknowledge the problem and say they are looking into it. One more note - you cannot get Deezer Elite streaming on any device but Sonos. A rep from Bluesound told me it would work, but it doesn't. Let me know if you are interested in further info/thoughts on this....
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