karmanfamily Posted December 2, 2016 Share Posted December 2, 2016 I have tested both setups side by side: Aries (the fancier one) with a Vega and an Altair. Both with an exact copy of the same music files from MP3 to 24/192 FLAC on a Tosshiba 1TB external hard drive, using the Lightning app. Let me put it this way, I kept the Altair. Selling the Aries and Vega and buying the Altair left me enough $ to take a vacation... Sound quality? In my ears the same, maybe a little detail gets lost. NOT $3,100 worth of difference... Of course Auralic can't say that the Altair practically sounds the same as the Aries/Vega combo. For 99% of the people that have a decent setup it will sound close enough to use an Altair over the Aries/Vega combo. (self conducted survey with 1 person asked the question...) Happiness is wanting what you have. Link to comment
karmanfamily Posted May 9, 2017 Share Posted May 9, 2017 The one issue that's really a deal breaker for me is the reset that you have to do when you have to reboot your wifi... They know about that already... Happiness is wanting what you have. Link to comment
karmanfamily Posted August 13, 2017 Share Posted August 13, 2017 On some audio shows Auralic has shown a whole new series 2 of all their models. Happiness is wanting what you have. Link to comment
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