Mac AIR v MiND 180 v Auralic ARIES v totaldac d1 server

[GuillaumeB]

It doesn't look like you have many doubts about the Totaldac's performance! Sounds like it was very impressive. What lead you yo trying this particular bit of kit in the first place? There are many, many, devices of this type about at the moment, some from more established manufactures such as Naim, Krell, Linn, Macintosh, NAD, you could list a dozen or more I think. Just curious what your thought process was?

Or maybe your planning to try a few more!

I found out about totaldac on the french forums... one chap, a Devialet 800 owner was getting very good results with it. totaldac evidently has a very good reputation in France. This got me researching the brand and its products.

As far as I know there aren't that many dedicated reference level non-DAC streamers out there at the moment... for e.g. Linn don't make one as such although you could use an Akurate DS for the same purpose since it has a digital output. I did try a Sneaky DS a while back but the sound quality was appalling.

Tell you what I'd be interested in comparing the d1 server to the Aurender W20 next!

Guillaume