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It’s easy to select single tracks or whole albums but after a while you end up with a lot of tracks on the playlist which makes finding individual pieces harder. From there you search for the desired tune and add it to a playlist where the track is lined up for playback. The user interface is courtesy of the proprietary Aurender app, this shows a list of the albums, artists or tracks that you have loaded. There are no fans onboard so it’s silent in operation and build quality is on a par with other high end components at this price point, in other words extremely high and reflected in the attractive AMOLED display which can be set to show artist and track or a pair of VU meters, which seems strange as it’s not a power amp, but looks good nonetheless. Output is via SPDIF, AES/EBU and USB outputs but it is with the former options that it excels.
So you need to factor in another £399 if you don’t have one of Apple’s small tea trays.ĭespite this connection it doesn’t offer internet radio nor music services like Spotify, in essence the S10 is a replacement for a CD transport that has the sonic and access advantages of a file player.
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Aurender supplies free iPad software but not the tablet itself which is an essential part of the system, you can play what’s on the playlist without one but you can’t put anything on that list nor do more than go through it one track at a time. It can also, it turns out be used, as a streamer for material on attached NAS drives. The Aurender does not work entirely alone, it needs a wired network connection so that it can be controlled with an iPad and so that you can load music onto it from a computer. Rather than the TCXO (temperature compensated crystal oscillators) found in the better high end transports Aurender has sourced OCXO or oven controlled crystal oscillators that reduce timing errors by a significant margin and provide extremely high stability and low phase noise for the S/PDIF outputs on the machine. What makes the S10 interesting is both this dedication of purpose and the shear seriousness with which the company has approached the issue of clock induced jitter. Most of the alternatives in this field from Linn, Naim, Olive et al are multifunctional in that they are streaming clients that access music files from a remote drive or have built in ripping capability such as the Naim HDX, they also usually have access to net radio and music services. There aren’t to my knowledge many other file players that go this far in the quest to deliver maximum high fidelity. An approach that ensures minimum noise because the HDDs are put in sleep mode to reduce vibration and electromagnetic interference when you’re listening.
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It’s a full width component with solely digital outputs that stores music files on a 2TB hard drive but caches tracks added to the playlist on a 64GB solid state drive (SSD) prior to playback. The Aurender S10 is a Linux based digital transport from Widealab Inc of Korea, in essence it’s a computer that is dedicated to delivering a PCM bitstream.
But the latest component to take its place on my Townshend Seismic Stand has shaken the order of things to no small degree.
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I still enjoy vinyl and have yet to find a digital source that beats it when it comes to sheer musicality but do have to remember that a Mac and even a pretty good DAC is nowhere near as expensive as an SME 20/3 turntable, van den Hul Condor cartridge and Trilogy 907 phono stage. I’ve worked through software from Pure Music, Audirvana Plus and Decibel and each change has delivered even greater sonic delights, so much so that it has got to the point where the act of putting a disc into a CD player usually only occurs when I’m reviewing a CD player or a CD. I have been using my Mac as a digital transport for some time now and get spectacular results with a good USB DAC and the right software.
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