08-Apr-2015, 15:50
(08-Apr-2015, 15:07)davidadamson Wrote: I am using the Aurilac not only for Tidal, but the ability to use flash drives and NAS compatibility - and it all sounds better than without Aurilac to a huge degree.
I think it is fairly well accepted that the Aurilac Aries betters PC's , Macbooks and dedicated CAPS servers in sound output and I have to agree.
I think it will take some time given present progress that Spark/Dialog will come up to this level if and when it does I will be very happy to move on and sell the Aurilac.
On another note I was starting to regret the purchase of the Phantoms, buggy software and a disturbing midtone dissonance. My wife certainly was uncomfortable and wanted the Quad ESL's back. All of this changed after I inserted the Aurilac into the chain, she was first to comment on the difference ( she had no idea I had the Aurilac) on how sweet and rich the speakers sounded.
So I can now say with confidence that the Phantoms are indeed an incredible tour de force and well worth the money and the software development cycle.
We all need to stay on Devialet and push them to have Spark/Dialog at the same level of technical execution as the Phantom's
Pardon my newness but is Auralic used with or instead of the Dialog? Also since I want to go minimal components on my move to dual Silver Phantoms can the DAC be minimized or does Auralic have an "all-in-one" DAC/Stream enclosure? This move was initially planned to eliminate Preamp, dual mono blocks and a myriad of power cables, interconnects etc and now seems to be suffering mission creep, ie; similar enclosure-count.
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