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Excellent timing for me and thanks for posting your findings.
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Thnx for this extencive testing, much appreciated!
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01-Mar-2015, 23:19
(This post was last modified: 01-Mar-2015, 23:26 by IanG-UK.)
Excellent review in a difficult area.
Interesting that even if you weight the sound quality issue at 5 times the level of the others, the Aurender comes out top.
Personally I would find it tough to live with a product with significant shortcomings in set up and operation, in an area where many will switch to a streamer to make operation easier.
Maybe the market is still in its infancy and in three years we will look back and laugh at the inadequacies of some products we see now.
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Good writeup amabrok! Now I am more interested in N1A. My friend who both auditioned N1A and X100 found even N1A is better than X100 in terms of sound quality.
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I totally agree with you, amabrok. Usability is one of the key factors and X100 sounds attractive on this point.
If you would compare Mac Mini with the three players, what would be your rating in terms of sound quality?
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Very Pro-Like. You deserve a big thank you and Much Appreciated the effort and also a honest write up. This will be very helpful. My little shortlist can be arranged based on your finding
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