Audivarna Pus and Aries Mini.

[torcik]

15 hours ago, el_cato said:

Things evolve quickly, I think Miguelito's answer above is outdated.

I'm using an Auralic Aries Mini with firmware v5.5.1 and I am using Audirvana Plus 3.2.8

The Mini has two work modes, Lighting Device vs UPnP.

To switch between them:

Within Lightning DS app, access Settings wheel (bottom left), press "Additional Operations" at the bottom of the Settings window, access Streamer Setup in the left column, scroll down to Streamer Mode/Work Mode, choose UPnP Renderer.

It will interrupt the other input methods listed above the Streamer Mode box (AirPlay, Bluetooth, Roon and Spotify all need the work mode to be "Lightning Device" to work).

But, it will make the Mini visible within Audirvana_Plus/Preferences/Audio_System/Preferred_Audio_Device ?
CQFD.

Now, a few caveats:

1. I have a headless MacMini connected to the same Ethernet switch as the Mini, so no issues of bandwidth since the switch just establishes a "straight pipe" between the two devices;

2. Auralic does not encourage using the UPnP setting, they explicitly state that they prefer customers using the Lightning DS and Lightning Device mode... And Audirvana does play fine mostly, but sometimes the album stops after the end of a track and you have to restart the next track manually, so it's not seamless...

3. My Ethernet switch is connected to the network using a Netgear Powerline 1200 (brick walls are bad for wi-fi and bad to pass Ethernet cables!), so the signal is somewhat poor and when I tried to stream from my iMac over wi-fi to the Router to the Switch to the Mini, the signal drops off quickly even if Audirvana on the iMac can see the Aries Mini.

4. I haven't done any sound comparison yet. Too much gear and too many options! I was about to sell the Aries Mini precisely because of its inability to stream from Audirvana, but now that that's resolved, I have to compare it to the Sonore MicroRendu (the sound of which I love, but I find impossible to play reliably to, I can't get both the DLNA and the Spotify Connect apps to be easily swapped in and out of, the UltraRendu was working great, and now that I've update the DLNA app, I can't connect to it! arrgh...)

That's it for now, hope that's helpful to someone...

 

 

[torcik]

Just the answer that I was looking for. I just bought a used Aries to get into the streaming game. I am using Lightning DS which works fine, but wanted to see if I could Audrivana to work and you gave  the right answer. Thanks