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RE: Auralic Aries Mini Streamer


I appreciate your criticisms of the Aries Mini with built-in DAC and cheap connectors but as you know Auralic has their higher-end models w/o the DAC so they have that covered. I think they built the Mini to a price point as an attractive entry point into streaming.

While sound quality is important to me, the user facing software is just as important. If I were in this for sound quality alone, it wouldn't matter what clunky software I used. I have a reasonably large Library and I don't spend hours on end playing one or two tunes to listen to my system. ;-) [Not implying that you do, but some folks here seem to]. I use my system to listen to tunes, so managing them all is very important.

So "computer based audio" or "streaming audio" HAS TO include a great user interface otherwise it's just not worth the hassle to me.

I'm on the fence with Tidal and figured $549 for the Aries WITH a year of Tidal isn't so bad for something new to "play with". I'm still researching and just looking for something new. I don't want to dump a ton of cash into a high-end streamer. I may decide to play with Roon instead.

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