amabrok's System

[amabrok]

Nice system and nice garden as well. Is it still summer in your country?

I'm wondering why you choose for the Aurender, when having a Air streamer on board. I see you do already use it for Qobuz and alike. Did you ever try to use JRiver for streaming purposes via Air? ChM

Thankd Chm!

Where i live is always summer! it is only a question of whether it is a boiling or a tolerable one

for the aurender it was a multifactorial decision. Before migrating to Devialet, i had invested heavily in building and owning a hi-res flac library that is stored on a Upnp NAS which i used to stream to a Denon Network Player which has several drawbacks, a) it does not support gapless playback, b) support PMC up to 96Khz only and finaly c) has a low quality optical digital out hence there was a need for a DLNA/Upnp renderer to fill the gap in Devialet features since for me playing music from my offline owned library is still the main source. also while i consider myself at ease with computers, i don't believe they should be part of my playback system. they should only play part in library management. finally, as you may have read here on the forum, dedicated custom-build network bridges/servers like TotalDac1 and 3D Lab offer the best sound quality and i believe that the X100 is not far away from those guys if not actually on the same level since the X100 inherits all the hi-end specs of the USB audio out circuit of the flagship aurender W20.

last but not least, this one comes with a built-in 8 TB of storage so it eliminates the need of NAS and no hiccup in playback. and the cherry on the ice is that today i came to know from TVLogic that they have plans to integrate Tidal in their aurender line and once that happen there will literally be no place for my laptop in my playback setup