Innuos or Aurender

Aurender or Innuos are both excellent products but had different sound signatures in my room.  I found the Innuous more detailed and more sound stage forward in my system.  The Aurender delivered a smoother more analogue sound.  I was impressed with both but felt that the N20 played better with my speakers and went with that.

I have music stored on my office hard drive from rips and downloads and I found it easy to send the files to the hard drive on the streamer over my network.  I haven't had any SQ issues and it sounds bit perfect to my ears.  Good luck and let us know which way you go.  

I recently traded in my Innuos Pulse for an Aurender A1000.  I was playing the Pulse through the DAC in my McIntosh MSA5500. The issue with Innuos is that there are no local dealers or service centers. I wasn't happy with the overall sound of the system, so traded in the McIntosh MSA5500 for a McIntosh MA352 and use the A1000's DAC which is quite good.  The sound is much smoother, and I don't need to worry about DSD through USB. The only downside of the A1000 is that it only has RCA outs, no balanced.  I haven't found that to be a problem, and delegated my balanced cables to the Parasound phono preamp connection to the MA352.  So far I have been quite pleased with the sound.

Lots of Aurender on sale at Musidirect:

 https://www.musicdirect.com/shop/?query=aurender

I have a Zen Mk3 and it has been great. The Sense app is very good on my iPad controller. I also can say that Aurender is popular among our local audio club members. So I think you’ll be happy either way. Cheers.

I have an Innuos ZENith MK-III and Phoenix USB Re-clocker and it's been really great.  Well-built and accurate reproduction, with lots of storage and ripping for your CD's.  I've had mine for over 6 years now with no issues and flawless performance.