Great to read about this positive experience for you. I think this is what most 'philes expect when they invest in a quality piece of gear. -Glad you are up and running again. Enjoy the music!
Great customer service from Auralic Ltd.
I suddenly ran into a problem(s) about 10 days ago with my Auralic Aries G1 music server: contant buffering when trying to listen to music on Tidal; music library on hard drive abruptly empty (though the G1 still showed some 8000+ files present); the G1 unresponsive to the DS Lightning app on my iPhone.
It turns out all this was caused by two things going wrong at the same time: 1) Our Xfinity high speed router needed to be re-booted; 2) the 2TB Seagate hard drive with my ripped CD files on it was dying/had died.
Hind site is a wonderful thing but none of this was obvious late in the evening on Saturday 10/8. I submitted a service request to Auralic on Sunday expecting to have to ship the 6 month old unit in for service. I got an automated acknowledgment that same day and on Monday, 10/10, received the first of what would end up being 8 almost daily emails from Xuanqian Wang (Mr. Auralic) written in response to my observations following implementation of the various trouble-shooting steps he was suggesting.
Ultimately, and early on, his suggestion to re-boot the router restored access to Tidal. But it took a new hard drive, re-freshing cache and erasing the Library Index before a functional music library was re-established on the G1.
I greatly appreciated Mr. Wang’s patience, responsiveness and guidance in getting the G1 back in working order. I thought his efforts went above and beyond what might normally be expected by way of customer support. I’ve been very happy with the Aries G1 since purchasing. Based on this experience with Auralic’s customer service, I wouldn’t hesitate to recommend them to anyone looking for a piece of digital audio gear.
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Awesome resolution Ghosthouse but sorry about your hard drive dying! And you can also always post over on the Auralic forums https://community.auralic.com/ There’s a ton of knowledge there and Xuanqian frequently responds himself. And how are you liking the G1? Still running my aged but reliable Mini here! |
Great hearing from you guys. Might be a normal expectation, @pokey77 but as you know expectations ain't always met. There's something to be said for dealing with a company managed by a "sole-proprietor" and not a board of directors. The former tend to have "skin in the game" and take things personally (in a good way). @jond - I've said it before in these forums. This whole Auralic thing is your fault! ;-) I actually still have the Mini and it works just fine. Used it when the G1 was down. Firmware updates seem to keep it sounding fresher than you might expect for its age. The Mini has got to be one of the best values in audio. My ears, my gear but it seems to do maybe 80 or even 90% of what the G1 does. Don't get hung up on those %, just trying to make a point. And that performance for what price? As originally priced the Mini was maybe 1/5th the G1's cost. I almost didn't keep the G1 (30 day return option on an open box unit from Audio Advisor) because the Mini sounded so close. What took me a while to appreciate is that while the Mini covers much the same frequency range; i.e. the two "sound" very similar tonally, the G1 presentation is more transparent; more "air & space"/stage depth; a little sharper in sonic images; the music is more "3D". So maybe more "refined" covers it. But I won't lie, it's not something that hits you over the head from the get go. It took me a while to appreciate what it was doing because initially I was so focused on comparing the tone which like I said seemed much like that from the Mini. Anyway, missed it when it was gone and glad it is back. I'm not crying about the mechanical hard drive. Switched to solid state: SanDisk - Extreme Portable 2TB External USB-C NVMe. SSD Prices have come down a good bit. This one was on sale at Best Buy for just a little north of 50% the regular price. 5 year warranty. Bottom line, don't be apologizing for your Mini! but if opportunity presents itself you might enjoy a G1 (or now, G1.1).
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Great to hear you had a great experience with Aurlic (Aries G2). I sure didn’t. First, running the player is contingent on them approving you using it through the internet. For whatever reason mine was locked and would not function. My dealer contacted them and after a couple of days “unlocked it”. I spent thousands to own a player… yet they still hold the keys to allow it’s use. That was completely unacceptable. Then, while it did sound much better than my Mac as a streamer… I still felt there was noise level too high. I swapped to an Aurender and the sound improved significantly… first a N100 then a W20SE. Great to hear you are having better luck with Aurlic. |
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