totaldac D1 server

[GuillaumeB]

Maybe I'm missing something - the spec does look good but it doesn't seem to do any more than the Auralic Aries, doesn't have Qobuz integration and at 4.990 euros costs three times as much. Unless it sounds a lot better then I think it would be difficult to justify the extra cost.

You're not missing anything!

The Aries looks great on paper and functionality-wise is certainly much better value.

By the way the totaldac site does mention Qobuz: "streaming such as Qobuz and Deezer via Squeezbox / LMS / Ipeng7"

I just think it's interesting to mention some other options and this one looks good (low noise, DSD, digital clock...). I suspect the SQ of this one might be rather special but I certainly wouldn't part with any money before testing this comprehensively first!

In fact I intend to try and carry out a comparison of AIR v MiND v ARIES v TOTALDAC at some point...

Guillaume