There are advantages and disadvantages with both.
Aurender built in storage vs Auralic which doesnt
You are missing Roon compatibility with Aurender.
Then there is the question of upsampling and upconversion.
Many Dacs sound better with higher res samples.
Upconversion and transcoding allow for 16bit 44k to be magically resampled to 24/192 or DSD.
For this reason we prefer to use innuous servers running Roon core.
If you think there is a lot of difference between native high res and upsampled
16 bit there isnt.
We have extensive experience with many of the markets best dacs and servers.
We have Naim Aurreder Batis Innous servers on active display and we had the Aurlic Aries as well.
If we can be of further assistance please feel free to contact us.
Dave and Troy
Audio Doctor NJ
Aurender built in storage vs Auralic which doesnt
You are missing Roon compatibility with Aurender.
Then there is the question of upsampling and upconversion.
Many Dacs sound better with higher res samples.
Upconversion and transcoding allow for 16bit 44k to be magically resampled to 24/192 or DSD.
For this reason we prefer to use innuous servers running Roon core.
If you think there is a lot of difference between native high res and upsampled
16 bit there isnt.
We have extensive experience with many of the markets best dacs and servers.
We have Naim Aurreder Batis Innous servers on active display and we had the Aurlic Aries as well.
If we can be of further assistance please feel free to contact us.
Dave and Troy
Audio Doctor NJ