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Auralic Aries G2.2 - Market-Worthy or Not?

I have an Aries G2.2 and am debating what to do with it, considering Auralic is no more.  It sounds fantastic. It still works. But thinking of moving on in the event support for the software breaks.

I’ve seen others say that third party apps like Bubble UP&P and Roon will continue to work with it.

I’m considering moving on, and don’t expect much.

Is this even possible considering that each unit is tied to a particular user?

Should I de-authorize myself? Or do nothing as it doesn’t matter?

Thinking it might not matter as the server that tracks users may not even exist anymore?

Any advice or shred experiences from Auralic owners is appreciated.

As an aside - it is a shame as this unit sounds absolutely fantastic.

 

 

nyev
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mattmiller
1,620 posts
 

Do you think I would get rid of my OPPO 105 just because they stopped making them years ago? I think not! If your happy with the Auralic then use it til you cant anymore. I come from the "If its not broke ,dont fix it" camp. 

 

P.S. if you must the only real option IMO is a Aurender music server using a DAC of your choice. If you think the Auralic sounded good....This is a whole new level, plus you get to play around with different DAC’s , what fun:-)

 

https://aurender.com/home/n20/

 

 

Matt M

pureclarity
91 posts
 

I agree with not too much resale value or updates. However as an auralic owner, they are extremely well built and sound awesome.  If you want to consider trading it for full resale value, try ps audio. I’ve heard good things about their dac and air lens streamer 

easystreamer
119 posts
 

You have at least a year or two to go before needing to replace. By then who knows what will be available so I would just ride it out like I am doing with my Altair G1.1. I am use it as a DAC only. Sounds great.

Also, the user registration is not a problem for resale. I never registered my unit to begin with but others thought it was required to use the device or get the warranty.

nyev OP
1,033 posts
 

Thanks for the responses. Agreed, it does sound very good! Very low noise floor, black backgrounds etc.  And I don’t care about I2S for now. Did a direct comparison between AES and USB on the G2.2 and found very little difference (using Network Acoustics Muon Pro for both).

Guess I can keep the G2.2 a little while longer.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

yyzsantabarbara
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Software on a hardware device does not break unless the hardware holding the code fails. If your device does not need to be on the internet and connected to a server at Aurelic then I see no reason why your unit would become obsolete.

Software like ROON will keep updating (the GUI) but the communication protocol that ROON uses to talk to all clients, such as Aurelic, is call RATT and that likely is very stable.

Now if ROON decides to radically alter RATT then you are cooked, but why would ROON do that since it would mean all ROON READY devices from all manufacturers would need an upgrade, Not going to happen.

I was curious about Aurelic gear because wireless streaming should be the cleanest, but in my experience, it has been problematic with the current wireless protocols. There is a new version of wireless that is out and it is supposed to be better than the old. If Aurelic was a bit forward thinking maybe they already support this new wireless. You could have future high demand streaming device.

 

 

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