A/B Comparison On A Pair Of Moderately Priced Streamers

I have owned both the Aurender N100, and the Innuos Zen Mini.

I ended up with the Innuos because it allows me to integrate 2 systems, whereas the Aurender does not.

Both are very good units. If you don't need to add other systems, and don't mind being locked into either Qobuz or Tidal, then the Aurender makes sense.

For me, I like to have more options. The Innuos allows you to use Roon- which I find to be quite a nice piece of software. And, though I hate to pay for more stuff, I really think it does a remarkable job of doing a lot of things in an easy to use package.

If you want a streamer with a lot of options, the Bluesound Node is probably the best one out there. Though I would get a nice DAC. Well, I would get as good a DAC, as possible for any of the choices I have given.

Bob

Glennewdick is dead on. I will save you the long speech about my experience, just look at my house of stereo system. My streaming is now awesome without adding any expensive streamer. Just upgraded the NODE 130.

As far as DAC, upgraded from Aries 2 to Gustard X26 PRO.

Latest Node 130 works extremely well as long as you match it to a proper DAC

I think you pose a good question. It has not been addressed directly. I will try a bit better.
 

I looked at reviews of the Inuous. I have to say researching many streamers and owning a Aurlic Aries G2, and Aurender N100, N10 and W20SE, I would go with the Aurender. They are top notch sounding streamers from a company that only does streamers. I can’t recommend them enough. My Aurender W20SE and Audio Research Reference DAC CD9 sound equivalent to my Top notch $45K vinyl end. I think that shows what Aurender is capable of.