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Originally Posted by brownbear
Which Aurender? Did you ever get it working well enough to compare the sound quality to the BDP-3?
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I had an Aurender N100H. Frankly, I was so happy to be getting rid of it that I didn't spend a lot of time comparing it to the BDP-3. I think they are very close sonically with perhaps a slight advantage to the Bryston, or perhaps that's just a result of the bias I developed against the Aurender.
I know that many users praise the Aurender streamers and customer support, but that wasn't my experience at all. I'm fairly competent with technology and I write clearly - so I am not happy when I get an answer back from tech support telling me the remedy to my issue is something I already told them I'd tried. Nor do I appreciate being told the issue is missing files when clearly the files are not missing. Or any of the other excuses and nonsense I got back from "Ari" at Aurender.
I've been an audiophile for a long time. One thing I figured out years ago is that this hobby is supposed to be fun, so if a component becomes a nuisance, the only solution is to bail out. So good riddance, Aurender.
After one day with the Bryston I got it to do what the Aurender couldn't in the nine months I owned it.