New Aurender Content Server (ACS) with internal ripper

[DMelby]

Just putting in my impressions to the community mix - I've been using my ACS for about a week. This is a truly spectacular addition to the Aurender line up. I was kind of thinking oh this would be great for the additional storage but wasn't expecting anything much from it. I figured my W20 would probably be the best by far and the ACS would be second place and my QNAP NAS 3rd. My intention was to use this actually as a media server for video files. On that front, wow! The video output is remarkably better than running from my QNAP NAS and even markedly better than playing video files from my W20.

Another amazing benefit which I was in complete bafflement over and had no expectation was holy moly the ripped WAVs from this unit sound spectacular - notably better than ripping my library from my custom built audio PC. And way easier than with my PC.
I think the ACS is definitely worth considering as both an amazingly good quality video server and for Ripping CDs.