Aurender A-10

I just bought an A10 a month ago

Love the sound streaming. Then again my go to is vinyl

When I bought it they told me they were coming out with all new models in April do to chip shortages.  A15? A bit more expensive but shows the album artwork

You might get a nice price on an A10 in the transition like I did

I am a huge Aurender fan… I own a N100 and their flagship, which I think is a screaming deal at $22K. I have carefully auditioned others in their line.

Streaming is now and the future. I have heard many Aurender streamers. I cannot say anything negative about their streamer/DAC combos. But I would separate the DAC function and the streamer function. This way you can upgrade one or the other.

My experience has shown that, in general, that the cost of carefully chosen components should be about the same +/- 20%. So Streamer = turntable = phonostage = DAC = Preamp = Amp. Just a budgeting concept. To point out that the streamer is critical… as is the phonostage if you have vinyl.

I have had an Aurender N200 for 3 weeks and it is an awesome machine!  I love this thing.    Aurender support has been great,  no problems... I just had a few questions and they were unbelievably fast in responding.   That for me is huge.   I hate computers, I mean I really hate the clunkyness of putting your CDs on a HDD...

Thats why I bought a Vault... it took the computer out of computer audio.   After ripping all of my CDs , I honestly stream 80% of the time

So the next natural progression for me was something like the N200.   Well worth it,  really demonstrated how important the source is.