The Grimm wins hands down. Not so dry sounding as the others you mentioned and it runs Roon, which is a necessity in my book.
Why I Sold My Aurender N200
People seemed more interested in why I sold my N200 than wanted to answer my questions in my last post on streaming quality, so here ya go:
I recently sat down with my wife (who has a much better ear for sound quality than I) and we A/B tested back and forth between listening to the N200 and the Bricasti M1 SE II’s network card and heard no difference.
Just before selling the N200 I contacted a very well-known and reputable dealer for his opinion on this. If anyone would know about the sound quality of streaming, he would and I asked what streamer he would recommend. He sells Bricasti, Playback Design, Lumin and Grimm streamers. his response to me was:
"In my humble opinion, there is no need to get a dedicated streamer if you have the network board in the Bricasti"
Most member’s comments are very positive on their N200, maybe you guys have much better ears than us, so please enjoy, but in my case, I sold it and gave the much-needed funds to my daughter who is just about to start her last semester at law school.
End of story.
Hope you all had wonderful Christmas and here’s wishing you all a Happy New Year!
- ...
- 61 posts total
Best thing ever to give your daughter some well deserved cash for a good project.you should be proud of her.i still member the trauma of going through dental and because they wanted me to be the first with dds and MD in a new program not tested I just went to med school.bless the vets when I was at the va doing surgery the cafeteria would close prior to us finishing the surgery day.the vets would order extra food for us residents.we would our nightly rounds to check on patients and they would feed us. The cost of professional school is hundreds of thousands of dollars today.that deters some of our brilliant people.enjoy the music stay healthy |
Personally I would keep the Aurender because of the hard drive capability. In my Aurender N150 I have a few hundred albums on the SSD drive, my entire CD collection ripped in WAV format. I use the streaming with Qobuz a fair amount but mainly play my CD collection that’s inside the unit on the hard drive and that sound quality blows away anything streaming can offer. |
Try adding a Baaske MI2005 or MI1005 to the ethernet cable to clean up the signal before going into the Bricasti. |
- 61 posts total