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View Classified UPGRADED Auralic Aries G2.1 streamer with 4Tb SSD + music *CD player ripper UPGRADED Auralic ARIES G2.1 in excellent condition with Hi-End Hoer-wege POWER SUPPLY upgrade. I am selling this gem with BONUSes! - 4Tb Samsung 870 EVO SSD with almost 2Tb of music (around 4,000 albums), - remote control, ‐ external drive for CD playback and ripping. Read about this unique CD Player and Ripper functionality below. New cost $7000 Asking $4500 Also, I can offer for an extra cost two Hi-End cables: - USB cable Revelation Audio Labs Prophecy CryoSilver Reference PowerFree 1m or - AES/EBU Crystal Cable / Siltech Silver Reference 3m Most believe that Aries G2.1, which is a major improvement over the very high rated Aries G2, is the best sounding and most versatile streamer/music server available for a reasonable price. Auralic G2.1 has many features, including TWO SEPARATE CLOCKS and insane double Faraday cage to isolate critical circuitry. The only weak part in the stock Aries G2.1 is a mediocre noisy power supply. This G2.1 I'm offering has a professionally installed power upgrade from Stephan Hoer, the hoer-wege power board. The upgrade also included RF/EMI absorbing and chassis dampening material specific for Aries (inside the chassis). Now, this is one of the best streamers for sure when it comes to its sound quality, stability, features, software, and looks. The traditional digital brightness and thinness that people associate with streaming are not the case here. This streamer makes music uniformly more analog sounding. Not in a fake LP way, it just made the music sound more visceral and real, with greater solidity, image separation, soundstage width, depth, even height, and even more coherence, both in terms of frequency and timing. It supports Roon, Apple AirPlay, Bluetooth, and Spotify Connect as well as Qobuz and Tidal streaming, in addition to many other features. It has ) and is an extremely versatile device. - Wireless or Ethernet cable ready. - virtually every output imaginable: SPDIF/RCA, AES, USB, and Optical. - HDD USB input allows any usb storage device or thumb drive to be inserted and music loaded to Aries library with all albums organized with Lightening DS software. - Roon ready; recognized as a Roon endpoint, can use Roon software on iPad as well. - will download and display music library from NAS or other upnp storage device for easy playback. - flawless streaming Qobuz, Tidal and internet radio. CD PLAYER/RIPPER Unique jitter-reducing CD playback feature. By connecting a simple USB optical drive with a good external power supply, you will have a playback system that rivals many of the best high-end CD transports. This playback feature uses our advanced Memory Cache technology to compare multiple scans of the CD data, ensuring its accuracy. This process eliminates errors and drastically reduces jitter resulting in superior performance. When ripping, the streamer will read each data sector twice at the speed you select. If the two sets of data match, the read will be considered accurate. The streamer will save the data and move to the next sector. If the two readings do not match, the streamer will reduce its speed and re-read the data an additional 8 times. If all 8 readings are identical, then the streamer will save the data and move on to the next sector. If they are not identical, the most matched reading will be saved and the streamer will continue on. DESCRIPTION FROM THE MANUFACTURER Lightning OS is full of cutting-edge innovations that bring your music to life like never before. An extensive memory cache with bit-perfect functionality, and on-device playlists help you seamlessly experience and explore all your high-resolution sources. Take control with user apps like Lightning DS or Roon and meet true audiophile streaming. A 4.0-inch true color in-plane switching display with a resolution of over 300ppi provides complete operational feedback: playback status, configuration settings, and a full library view for browsing your collection. SPECIFICATIONS Streaming File Formats AAC, MP3, MQA, WMA. Also, AIFF, ALAC, APE, DIFF, DSF, FLAC, OGG, WAV, WV Sampling Rates PCM: up to 384KHz in 32Bit DSD: up to 512 Streaming Inputs - Network shared folder, - USB Drive, - Internal Music Storage (if internal SSD/HDD installed), - UPnP/DLNA Media Server, - Native TIDAL and Qobuz Sublime+ streaming, - Internet Radio, - AirPlay, - Bluetooth, - Songcast, - RoonReady Control Software **** AURALiC Lightning DS for iOS *** AURALiC Lightning DS for web browser (device settings only) ** OpenHome compatible control software (BubbleUPnP, Kazoo) * Roon (Roon Core required separately) Network Wired: Gigabit Ethernet Wireless: 802.11b/g/n/ac Tri-Band WiFi Seller Anton_s0s Date 01/13/24 Price 4,500.00 USD Category Music Servers / Streamers  

Hello everyone, I currently use an iMac as a streaming server (front end) to the sMS200. I think using an Ethernet LAN for streaming music is the best way as I do not have to locate my iMac close to the sMS-200 and the rest of my system. Most streaming servers have tiny screens that are not clearly readable from my sitting position (about 3.5 meters away) I run Roon currently but have tried, at various times, JRiver and Audirvana. My problem with these apps is their relative stability. I almost need to restart these apps about once wee. My iMac runs 24/7 365 days a year (unless Im on holiday). The iMac is a few years old so cannot install the latest MacOS and am stuck with Big Sur (11.7.8) not that this will improve things as I also run JRiver on another iMac installed with Ventura 13.5.2 and JRiver crashes randomly. I'm seriously considering replacing my iMac with a dedicated streaming server connected to the sMS-200 and was wondering what configurations other users have in their systems currently. I have looked at Innuos Zen Mini, Small Green Computer's SonicTransport. Are there any others out there with a reasonable price (~US$2k)? Any device must have an Ethernet port to stream, a good user interface to rival Roon (if possible), have a mobile app as controller, be sonically excellent (obviously), be able to play at least PCM 384k and DSD 256 (over DoP), have oversampling and downsampling features, connect via UPNP/DLNA, have Roon core (only grudgingly as I am not at all pleased to pay Roon's expensive licence fee. I do not need a built in DAC as my Bricasti M1SE is excellent sonically. Suggestions will be welcome and it would be great if you can post your working configurations that are connected to the sMS-200. Thanks.

All, I just found this on the web : https://euphony-audio.com/summus/ I have more questions than answers at this point. bob

"The Road goes ever on and on Down from the door where it began. Now far ahead the Road has gone, And I must follow, if I can, Pursuing it with eager feet, Until it joins some larger way Where many paths and errands meet. And whither then? I cannot say." I am continually looking for something that helps improve the sound quality of my system. But, I have gotten to the point of dramatically diminishing returns. "Begin with the end in mind. " My end-goal was to build a system for "Performace Listening" in my home. I sit down and listen to music, and that system has to sound Tony the Tiger GREAT! It also must be easy to use for the family. In this continuous learning world of audio, I have stumbled a few times. I have missed ideas along the way and had to go back to implement them. I bought the Kii Three speakers to place them near the front wall. I "forgot," I still needed to compensate for the room. I have learned to start with a targeted budget. I feel it is a huge mistake not to know where you are going. I'm not too fond of hard numbers, like spend 40% on your speakers. In my world of #FutureFi, that could be way off! I have worked to create a physical harmony with the room and the family. I built my system into my grandmother's Victrola cabinet as an homage. Located at the end of our living room, along with the speakers and other items, it provides a focal point. I have three sources in my system. My Rega Planar 8 turntable fits right into the cabinet where the old 78 record player was. I have added a Sonos Port to provide access to a wide variety of streaming services. I have constructed a computer system that provides a very high-quality music source using both local files and streaming from Tidal and Qobuz. I devoted a tremendous amount of time, energy, and money into multiple iterations of the computing part of the system. There is a balance I try to maintain that I am still tuning. Over the last two years, I have tested about six system designs using four different operating systems. I have also used two commercial systems as checkpoints for my designs. With a dedicated system and location, I have run a separate AC circuit to the system and use a hospital-grade outlet. My system power requirements are not dramatic, so I only ran one ten gauge wire feed and installed a 20amp circuit breaker. I have tested multiple AC power supply filtering systems and AC cables. I settled on Puritan Audio Laboratories cables and PSM-158 filter/distribution system. The Kii Three speakers do a fantastic job of adapting to room placement; they cannot fix "the room." I have recently applied a couple of tweaks that improve what the Kii's can deliver. First, when I provide each speaker and each BXT individual power cable, they sound better. This change was significant but not breathtaking. The second direct change for the speakers was installing a set of Isoacoustics GAIA-I speaker stands. I had forgotten how much of an improvement that these bring to the system. I have now reminded myself that addressing the floor/speaker interface should be one of the first things you do to the system. Do not wait a year, as I did! The Kii Three's do a great job of adapting to placement in the room. They do not correct for room acoustics issues. I do not use room treatments in the Living Room for esthetic reasons. I use RoonLabs Digital Signal Processing (DSP) in my system to help correct the reflections, etc.. I worked with @mitchcoto accomplish this. The disadvantage here is that the turntable and the Sonos Port do not have room correction. ---- I am amazed at the number of words written here on Audiophile Style about computers, networking, etc. I am not sure what to make of some of the results. Going back over what I have done over the last two years, I have a theme that has been working for me. Reduce complexity, remove hardware, and software not needed for operation. Then optimize from the new configuration. I have moved from macOS on a MacMini through many iterations to Gentooplayer on a PC style computer and keep the music stored on my NAS. With Gentooplayer OS, I get to switch between Roon and several other playback systems at will. The details might be interesting to some: Main Network is Ubiquity UniFi SM BIDI Fiber from the switch to a Sonore OpticalModule (FS.COM SFPs) Transparent Audio Ethernet to the Motherboard SOtM txUSBext PCIe card to a txUSB Ultra (modded) Asus ROG Crosshair VII Hero motherboard mounted on an Open BenchTable AMD Ryzen 7 7300x 16GB Apacer industrial spec RAM Intel Optane 32GB boot drive EVGA 1600 P2 Power Supply for the Motherboard HDPLEX 200 for the accessories. The USB cables are Ghent JSSG 360 between the two SOtM devices and a Moon Audio Silver Dragon to the Kii Control. AC power cables are mostly Puritan Audio Labs. Music is on a Qnap NAS located in the basement. --------------- I am in flux on the case for the computer; it needs to fit in my cabinet. I also know that there will be folks that do not like my power supply choices. I am pleased with the EVGA power supply, and there is no question that it is dramatically better. Staging, dynamics, detail all improve. I know that the HDPLEX 200 might not be the best supply for running all the little accessories. I have it, and it works. This system design is a part of "My Quest" for better sound, for fun in research and construction. It is even more fun to share with others. Just like other quests, there is always something over the hill and around the curve. Now and then, I worry that Smaug is around that bend in the road. Where do I go next? Do I try an EtherRegen? Do I get the new JCAT USB card? Do I get a different power supply or supplies? USB Cables? I am watching what @The Computer Audiophileis doing with "CAPS 2020." I follow along with the progress of @Nenon and the Dual Xeon Extreme crowd. Right now, I am just going to listen to the system. Yes, and with the help of @antonellocaroli there will be some Linux tweaking on GentooPlayer along the way. In closing: My warning is to beware of FOMO! My wish is that you can create the experience you want in your home. --- "The Road goes ever on and on Out from the door where it began. Now far ahead the Road has gone, Let others follow it who can! Let them a journey new begin, But I at last with weary feet Will turn towards the lighted inn, My evening-rest and sleep to meet." Roads Go Ever On - Clamavi De Profundis Bob Fairbairn