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!

128x128navyachts

:) I love that cable and compared it to LinkUp and Supra. It beats both. But I’m fine with just one.
If you reach out to Purist they might make you a custom shorter version. I found the owner Jim to be pretty good on responding to emails and providing advice (I used to run Purist sp cables with my Martin Logans few years ago…reached out with a question and had an answer next day).

@navyachts 

Did you check with Bricasti if your network card has a built-in galvanic isolation? 

Ethernet offers galvanic isolation by design. All connections are transformed coupled. However this does not guarantee that no noise at all might creep into a networked device.

@lalitk this was Bricasti’s response to your question:

service@bricasti.com​

Fri 2025-01-03 12:18 PM

"there is no application for it. there is no power to isolate"

Similar to @welcher’s comment.