Aurender A1000

Streaming Audio
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I’ve purchased an Aurender A1000 to serve as front end, and bypass the elderly streamer in my 272. I can also rip my cd collection and store on the A1000 (I was close to buying a used uniti core but shied away knowing Teac no longer makes the drives). I really like the sound. It’s more detailed than the 272 as streamer and not fatiguing. I hope to eventually move to a 282, 252 or 332 when funds allow. But for now I am enjoying music!

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Congrats! That’s a fantastic streamer/DAC, unfortunately you’ll find little love here for Korean streamers, but they still rule.

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Thanks for your positive feedback. As many on this forum seem to embrace mixing Naim equipment with that offered by other manufacturers I don’t understand why some may have a bias against a streamer made in Korea. I guess I was hoping to hear other opinions from members with Aurender equipment in their systems.

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It’s just that most use Naim streamers. Then some buy not expensive transports to have Qobuz and Tidal max on their old Naim streamers ( 272, Ndx, Nds) as Linderman or Prisma.

Then the next bunch, in this forum, is using Auralic, maybe also for the look of it, which matches well Naim.

There’s a guy who has the Aurender S20, with Chord Dave.

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I’m not convinced there’s a specific bias against Korean hifi here. This is a Naim forum after all so you’d expect posters here to favour Naim gear, on balance, but I don’t see bias.

Roger

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I agree, by “no love” I meant not popular, nothing else. Wrong choice of words on my end.

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I’ve never tried an Aurender streamer in my system but I was very close to getting an A1000, the only reason I didn’t was that Critical Listening Mode is not supported with Roon, so I went with the Rose 150b instead that was discounted by 40%.

Those of us who frequent high-end audio shows know that Aurender streamers are ubiquitous for the sound quality they provide.

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I favour Naim gear too. That is why I’ve owned Naim gear for the last 19 odd years and also why I spend time on this forum.

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In Michael Lavorgna’s glowing review from Twittering Machines he wrote that the A1000 is an absolute “screaming deal” as a streamer-dac alone. In my own research I preferred the sound of the A1000 to every other streamer-dac I tested, some costing much more. So perhaps, at its price point, the A1000 is not as ubiquitous as those of you who frequent high-end audio shows opine (I trust Michael Lavorgna attends similar shows).

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The N20 is the model you see more often in audio shows IME.

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That’s what I’ve seen, too. Lots of N20’s, a few N10’s & N30’s.

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Hi @Rap,

I have been looking at both Aurender and Innuos streamers lately. Would you mind telling me if the conductor app allows playing whole albums without adding them to a playlist and is able to sort artists by their last name? I had one of the earlier models on demo a few years ago and I had to put every single track or album into a playlist, I didn’t look at the sorting options back then.

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I have been using tidal connect. I still haven’t figured out how to effectively use the aurender app. One thing i didn’t like is that the app will automatically go back to replaying all the songs in your playlist once it gets to the end.

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Thanks!