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RE: CD + Streaming one-box solution

Mr P - I'm intrigued by your decision to sell your NAD M50.2 in favour of the Aurender ACS10.

I have the NAD and am generally very pleased with its abilities and performance. The Aurender appears to be a pretty basic box that includes a fraction of the features offered by NAD, but I'm tempted to arrange a home trial if, as you claim, the sound quality is significantly better than the NAD.

Looking at what the NAD can do which the Aurender clearly can't, the ability to simply PLAY a CD is a significant advantage in my book. The NAD offers industry standard digital outputs via AES, Coax and Optical, whereas the Aurender offers only a "computer industry" USB output - not compatible with most DACs.

On the alternative input side, the Aurender offers none, while the NAD offers digital (coax and optical), analogue (via ADC) and USB inputs. Moreover the NAD offers an HDMI video output so a TV can be used to allow a rather better display than the tiny front-panel LED screen. The NAD has built-in MQA decoding whereas the already more costly Aurender needs an add-in board.

However, sound quality is the prime reason for buying any hi-fi product and I'd be surprised if the Aurender will better the NAD, particularly as the latter is listed as a Stereophile A+ Recommended Component. However I'm happy to be proved wrong, although I'd not want to be unable to simply play a borrowed or friend's CD!


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