I first got an Aurender N100 for my headphone system while I had the Aries G2 in my main system… I was really impressed… it is really quiet with natural sounding stable images. I felt Aurender is in a whole different class than the Aries. I always felt the Aries was noisy and images in the center stage were very confused. I started realizing what was possible, I listened to the N10… and immediately bought the W20SE. I had read… and quickly confirmed there was a big jump in sound quality between the N100 —> N10 —> W20se. I can now attest to that. My streamer digital end is now at the level of my analog end, and I have a new Linn LP12 and an Audio Research Reference 3 Phonostage. I listen to streaming most of the time now… Qobuz. If I feel nostalgic I will play a vinyl disk. I have a couple thousand clean, many audiophile recordings that a fun to listen to. But at the same fidelity I now have access to hundreds of thousands of albums… so, much music, so little time
