Today I received my microRendu! I have been having a lovely time setting it up and now it's working fine. I have read comments by some that it only takes ten minutes to set up. It has certainly taken me longer than that, but I think the most time consuming part of the job was making two new configuration cards (USB was disabled in my last config) and trying to find the Devialet's USB input, which is a task performed blind fumbling around at the back of my rack. The actual set up on my PC, getting it to talk to Roon etc., was genuinely a five minute job.
First impressions? It's tiny! I have seen pictures of it next to credit cards and similar, so I knew it would be small, but somehow having it for real, in your hand, it is just the tiniest thing!
No chance to listen much yet, I am sure I will be reporting more over on the microRendu sound quality observations thread. We do of course need to consider expectation bias. I have read that it sounds as good as an Aurender N10, to be honest I doubt this. I have also been reading much stuff on the Roon forum and elsewhere where a number of individuals have been trashing the thing and the associated iFi power supply and ridiculing anyone who dares to mention they have tried it and it sounds good. (many detractors have not actually listened to one, which seams a little odd to me.) Anyway, it is certainly controversial!
I have taken a nice picture of it, it is tricky to photograph due to it's size and colour. So to mitigate this, I have photographed it together with a randomly selected brightly coloured LP, for contrast and sense of scale.
First impressions? It's tiny! I have seen pictures of it next to credit cards and similar, so I knew it would be small, but somehow having it for real, in your hand, it is just the tiniest thing!
No chance to listen much yet, I am sure I will be reporting more over on the microRendu sound quality observations thread. We do of course need to consider expectation bias. I have read that it sounds as good as an Aurender N10, to be honest I doubt this. I have also been reading much stuff on the Roon forum and elsewhere where a number of individuals have been trashing the thing and the associated iFi power supply and ridiculing anyone who dares to mention they have tried it and it sounds good. (many detractors have not actually listened to one, which seams a little odd to me.) Anyway, it is certainly controversial!
I have taken a nice picture of it, it is tricky to photograph due to it's size and colour. So to mitigate this, I have photographed it together with a randomly selected brightly coloured LP, for contrast and sense of scale.
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