I like how the auralic looksAs much as I would love to talk dogs, I'm very excited with what I'm hearing now. It's explosive. ! After months and years of listening to music in my study with the good ole PC as source, I managed to connect Auralic Aries Le after a few botched attempts.
First song, 'Pain' by War On Drugs and OMG. How can changing source make so much difference ! I hear everything and anything. This is exciting now. It's seriously good. Micro details are swimming like a school of fishes. Vocals has that magical voicing and bass is as tight as a pair of skinny jeans. High frequencies shone like the sun but there's no sibilance, no uncomfortable peaks. It's like listening to vinyl on my Rega RP8. So excited was I that I couldn't put what I hear coherently in words.
Connection:-
Auralic Aries Le > streaming Tidal HiFi > AES connection into Yggdrasil > RCA connection to GOTL > 1/4 jack to HD800.
Noise floor as black and silent as dead of night. The song just leap out of my headphone and sparkle in front of me. This is going to be a very long night.
That's my iPad controlling the song selection on Tidal via the Auralic's Lightning DS apps.
, I'm still deciding between onyx and Yggy, for me its between when I'll receive the unit (yggy is backordered til the 29th) and the 6 month payment option without credit required or credit card (which i don't own a credit card anymore) swaying me to the onyx and id like to hear the metrum signature sound.
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Anyway congrats in advance on the Bricasti M21. Switchable between ladder dac and delta sigma. It featured in the Bricasti room at the AXPONA 2018 show. At $19000.
