20-Oct-2014, 14:36
(20-Oct-2014, 14:08)Mikeeo Wrote: Hi,
For what its worth. I 'stream' with my Unitiserve ie BNC out to digital 2 (RCA) in.
The little I compared before Uinitiserve had me choose the Naim instead of a pc/mac based system hooked on ethernet/usb. However of late I had a chance to listen to both Moon Mind 180 and Auralic Aries which booth sounds great between stream and Devialet. Also gives the option of running AES/EBU into the Devialet. I am now considering an Aries.
/Mike
Hi Mikeeo,
it might be worth your re-visiting AIR before you go down the streamer route. When Guillaume and Rufus compared the Totaldac D1 Server, Audirvana+/AIR, and the Aries. They rated them in that order - Totaldac first then AIR then Aries. They tried the MiND as well but I'm not sure how they rated that in the end compared to A+/AIR? With the Aries they preferred USB to AES/EBU.
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I'm still dithering about what to replace my iMac with. It sounds pretty good with AIR and in many ways I prefer it to my Naim NDX (via coax). I want Qobuz integration and the capability to stream hi-res rips from the same platform and control the streaming from an iPad. The Aries can do this but I don't really want to go down that path if it doesn't sound as good as what I have now
Good luck! Philip
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