This looks like a winner:
- LPS with toroid, Femto clocks, clean HW design, well screened
- all digital outputs one might need: USB, I2S (!), AES, coax, optical
- nice inputs as well, including SD-card (!), external HDD, Ethernet/ DLNA, aptX, streaming services
- control app via Bluetooth
- big display (I hope the selector works fine, a touch display would have been nicer)
- fair price (the nearest competitor is the Aries at double the price, and it still profits from better PSU).
Questions:
- I assume it uses linear regulators as well?
- is there a list about which DLNA servers and control points are supported (e.g. phone apps like Lumin, Kazoo, BubbleUpnp etc)?
- what is the best sounding way to feed wav files? SD card? HDD? Ethernet/DLNA/NAS?
- when switching SD cards (e.g. 200-256 GB ones), how fast the index is built? Are the databases created in the iDAP (since there is screen/selector) and also in the device running the control app? Are the databases persistent even if the medium is switched (like SD cards or HDDs)?
- is Spotify supported via Spotify Connect?
- is Roon-support possible/planned via FW updates?
- any upcoming magazine reviews in Europe?
Since the Aries I've been looking for something similar but also with I2S output and possibly with screen like the Cambridge 851N or the Naim Unity Atom. Voila! Cayin has done it, again.
Not to speak about the industry-leading presence and connection level with customers via these forums. Congratulations!