Auralic Aries vs Aurender X100 vs Melco N1Z

[EricDH]

I have no experience with Tidal, but my audiophile friends in the Netherlands report that it sounds not as good as their locally stored 16/44 FLAC files. I use Qobuz, and to my ears, the sound quality is really good. I hear no difference between Qobuz and locally stored FLAC files. I certainly don't experience any lack of liveliness (reported on Tidal by ears I trust).

That is then a good point of the Auralic Aries....... the Auralic Lightning DS app has Qobus integrated already.