New streamers from Aurender!

[MikeJazz]

Not sure if this would be a contender for auralic aries, maybe price will still be far away...but looks promising!

 

Pros:

- good and stable software

- aurender proven track record

- very polished design and good interface and display.

 

Cons:

- lacks outputs (only usb).

- not open to standards and other controllers.

[MikeJazz]

One of the reasons I haven't considered their servers is that they are relatively low powered and don't allow for uses like DRC and upsampling to hires at the server. Doesn't look like the new streamer allows for this from the server either, if you can only use it with their app.

It seems to me that being low on power is a necessity to keep electrical noise down. At least some reputed designers follow this principal.

the aurender problem is that they gather server, storage and player in the same machine. I can only speculate that this took them extra measures and costs, to create enought isolation and keep the noise down. On the other side, it's very practical for high end retailers to be able to quickly connect and demonstrate with minimal setup.