Auralic Aries Mini

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Apologies if this was posted already.

 

From this interview:

AURALiC Mainman Talks Aries, Roon, MQA (kinda) | DAR__KO

 

It does sound like RoonReady is never coming to the Aries Mini. They want you to have SOME reason to pay more for the standard Aries (besides sound quality/industrial design apparently) so they are restricting RoonReady to that higher price point device.

 

Bummer, I was somewhat interested in setting up Roon. I guess there's always the microRendu for going that route at an affordable price.

Yes very disappointing!

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Auralic clearly hinted that the Mini would get Roon at a later date by writing:

 

"Both these eagerly-awaited technologies will be demonstrated at the 2016 CES, and will be available soon afterwards via online firmware update. MQA decoding will be available for all three AURALiC’s lightning streaming devices: ARIES, ARIES LE and ARIES MINI. The RoonReady capability will initially be available for the ARIES and ARIES LE."

If I knew they would change their mind I would never have bought the Mini.