Auralic Aries

[GuillaumeB]

***UPDATE

I should be getting a decent USB cable tomorrow with a few other bits and pieces

Will therefore report back once I've had a chance to test the USB output.

Guillaume

I've already checked USB cables: AQ Diamond, JCat, Tellurium Q Black Diamond and at my taste Tellurium is the winner. I wait for Synergistic Research to finally make decision. Aries works best with Devialet through USB or my Coax is worse than tested USB cables ( I have any AES/EBU experience ).
Aries is superior to Linn Sneaky, which I used as a transport, but the application is a painfull for me as a user of Songbook.
Nevertheless I believe Auralic is working hardly to improve Lightning DS, last two/three weeks there was three upgrades of Aries software and two of LDS application.

Hello, I tested on the Aries the TotalDac USB FILTER, the Mapleshade USB cable and synergistic research core active SE.

On my system the TotalDac was sounding better than the others. But the Mapleshade and the SR did not have any burning time. It seems that SQ improved after burning and I need to make another test this weekend adding. An oyaide continental 5S which is said better than the references above.

So just an advise : pay attention to the burning time of your USB cable before test :-)

This week end we would test the Aries on different DAC (TotalDac d1dual, fostex) with and without the reclocker of the TotalDac D1 server. It will be compare in USB to the TotalDac server and a SOtM SMS 100.

Hi Patatorz,

Sounds like you will be having some very interesting tests! The USB cable I am receiving is a fully run-in demo cable, I have just checked this. I'll let it run for a few hours before the test anyway.

Cheers

Guillaume