Auralic Aries and Devialet 200

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I tested some songs with AIR and one thing that is noticible directly is that I have to turn upp the volume more with AIR to play at the same level as with my Aries over USB, for example if I play at -40dB with USB I need around -35dB with AIR to play at the same level (not measured, only what I hear with my ears so it might diff a bit up and down of dB on the volumecontrol).

Have not yet compared sound quality, will do that when my little kid is sleeping, there is not much time to focus when he is runing around playing

I do like the Aries as a concept and other streamers, I do not want to have a computer on always just to listen to music, with the Aries it is really fast to get it playing and it does sound really good for the price. I have been looking att Aurender but they are almost double in price and they also does not have a fully working Android app wich is a must for me. Naim is supporting Tidal in their streamers now so I have been looking at a second hand ND5 XS and a Teddy Pardo PSU to go with it. Naim only has BNC out but some say the that the coax and AES input on the Devialet is better than the USB. AES is supposed to be the best and it is possible to run psuedo balanced in on the AES to get the advantage of that input (a friend of mine runs a Naim server with BNC to XLR cable with good results compared to the rca input on his D400).