@miro, You already own the Bryston and seem to be happy with it which is fine. But I'm sure anyone spending these amounts of money, especially those in a 'green field situation', will do a (home) audition/comparison first.
BTW, $8k for a piece of non-upgradeable hardware using technologies from a field that's changing as fast as it does...a bit "reckless" if you ask me! I just checked the N10 specs (and some other models) and I can see Aurender is jumping on all the same 'new' bandwagons as everyone else; battery/linear power, FPGA, OCXO clocks, DSD, low noise USB. I'm quite sure this list will grow and make their appearance in newer Aurender models.
I also wouldn't be surprised when we're going to be seeing new technologies popping up in both DAC's and streamers soon. Technologies like those that replace USB and/or uPnP/DLNA/OH solutions with ethernet based solutions like Ravenna/AES67 (or similar). See http://nadac.merging.com/nadac for an example. We've just seen it happen with DSD! I think I'll just stay with my computer based music server for now for maximum flexibility.
BTW, $8k for a piece of non-upgradeable hardware using technologies from a field that's changing as fast as it does...a bit "reckless" if you ask me! I just checked the N10 specs (and some other models) and I can see Aurender is jumping on all the same 'new' bandwagons as everyone else; battery/linear power, FPGA, OCXO clocks, DSD, low noise USB. I'm quite sure this list will grow and make their appearance in newer Aurender models.
I also wouldn't be surprised when we're going to be seeing new technologies popping up in both DAC's and streamers soon. Technologies like those that replace USB and/or uPnP/DLNA/OH solutions with ethernet based solutions like Ravenna/AES67 (or similar). See http://nadac.merging.com/nadac for an example. We've just seen it happen with DSD! I think I'll just stay with my computer based music server for now for maximum flexibility.
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