Aurender N100 or Melco N1A

[Womaz]

Why are you looking to change the Aries? I did look at the Aries too, but in the end I narrowed it down to one that could store my music too.
i think the Lightning DS app used to work with the Melco until the last update. Then it just stopped working. As i keep saying this is my worry about not having a dedicated app. SQ is the most important factor but ease of use is also very important.

I sometimes think i need to be retired to have the time to sort this out ;-)

I want something better than the Aries but the main thing was that Auralic stoped developing the Android app, but I tried the Bubble app and it works ok so this might change my mind.
Right now I think I will wait for streamers/nas or some sort of combination that runs ROON (like the ELAC Discovery) and see what this will look like and sound of course. The only thing I dont want to have is a computer to play my music. If AIR worked ok all the time maybe a NUC with ROON could work but I want it to be simple to play music the Aries is ready to play in seconds and I only need a app on my tablet to control it.

Yes I would like the PC out of the chain too.