No, this one is definitely not in my head, the Melco sounds different then the Aurender, both connected to the same DAC. (Devialet 200)
Same network, same USB cable, same power cable, same DAC.
Maybe the Aurender "puts" more noise back into the power supply that influences the performance of my DAC. But there is reproducible audible difference between the two streamers.
To make it clear, both streamers connected to the network TCP/IP, but streaming from their internal drives over USB to my DAC/AMP.
(My DACS don't have a ethernet port to stream TCP/IP, and the Aurender does not have this option anyway))
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Moon 700i V2, dCS Rossini, YG Acoustics Hailey, Aurender N10, Ansuz Mainz D2
Last edited by imprezap2; 08-05-2017 at 04:28 PM.
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