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Old 03-03-2016, 01:12 PM
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I am giving very serious thought about buying the Aurender W20. I found a great review with an enormous amount of photos of the unit. The interior shots are breath taking. REVIEW + PHOTOS

Very nice review conclusion:

The Aurender W20 is a purpose built race car that does one thing very well, it plays music that sounds better than any server I've ever used. When connected to great components the W20 enables one to hear into the music, with a low noise floor and clean signal, like nothing else. The flagship W20 is an engineering based marvel not dependent on high end hocus-pocus to turn heads and enthrall the ears. The server's maintenance free battery powered, and in-house designed, audio board in addition to intense isolation, both electrical and physical, are far beyond any server I've used to date. The Aurender W20 makes CAPS servers look like children's toys with inferior sound. It's not possible to compete with the W20 using an off the shelf computer or individual computer components cherry picked from around the world. The Aurender team has designed and built, from the ground up, the W20 too such a standard, hobbyists can only dream about duplicating its form and function. Whether the listener connects it to a full dCS externally clocked stack or an Alpha DAC via AES or an EMM Labs DAC2X via USB the Aurender W20 will provide listeners the best chance of hearing everything on a recording without editorializing. The Aurender W20 has displaced the CAPS v3 Carbon server in my system and is without a doubt the best music server I've used to date.

The price runs 16-17K.

Does anyone here have real world experience with the W20?


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Old 03-03-2016, 01:53 PM
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One local dealer has one and it is a nicely build piece. They use it to handle their NAS and its own local storage then output it to one of their DAC's. Sounds good and it nowhas a pretty good app.
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Old 03-03-2016, 02:43 PM
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One local dealer has one and it is a nicely build piece. They use it to handle their NAS and its own local storage then output it to one of their DAC's. Sounds good and it nowhas a pretty good app.

Still-One...the W20 looks refined and I have studied the inner workings/hardware layout. This unit appears off-the-hook. I have my McIntosh MB100 with my main McIntosh Rig. The W20 would go with my MC402 + C2500. I have their smaller edition and this works great with my MX70.

The Aurender W20 is sexy!
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Old 03-03-2016, 03:24 PM
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My only concern would be achieving comparable results. They are using a $70k dcs stack and have the word clocks synced, which is probably the most ideal situation. I do believe that using AES (instead of USB) also makes a big difference...
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My only concern would be achieving comparable results. They are using a $70k dcs stack and have the word clocks synced, which is probably the most ideal situation. I do believe that using AES (instead of USB) also makes a big difference...
Who and which post are you responding to?
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Who and which post are you responding to?
The first and third post. There is a review attached that describes how they tested it.
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Have you compared the W20 to the N10? I am curious to the major differences.
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Old 03-03-2016, 11:11 PM
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Old 03-03-2016, 11:14 PM
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Have you compared the W20 to the N10? I am curious to the major differences.
I haven't. I'm lame, the word that caught my attention, Flagship... I got hooked.
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Old 03-04-2016, 01:04 AM
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Hi David,

Odyssey (Le Roy) did a lengthy in-home demo with the Aurender W20. You should talk to him about it. I believe he ended up purchasing the Lumin U1 music server instead.

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