Auralic Aries G1

[Sailor4W]

I watch several audio forums (as most of us do I’m sure), and people seem to always be rotating the popular streamers for various reasons, bigger sound stage one week, then sounds crap the next week, time to change again... When I start thinking I don’t like the sound of my system, I play some of my favorites and remind myself how good it can/does sound. Saves a lot of money that way. Mastering differences will make a bigger difference than any linear PSU or Femto clock. Enjoy the music, the gear is secondary.

I took exactly the same attitude for a long time. Till I stumbled onto Auralic. Neither Audirvana plus, nor Roon was able to get the music right (Audirvana still better than Roon in my opinion), but connecting the Auralic Femto to my system was a very good thing. None of the treble glare that was so annoying in my previous setups, wonderfully involving sound! This might very well be particular to my ears, but for enjoying what I hear, it is important to me. I do not convince myself that something sounds good, I just hear it. But I very much agree that these streamers are expensive, maybe too expensive? Never mind!