Auralic vs Aurender

THanks jon 2020-- SQ diff most important--

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

10/4--thanks

My experiences suggest that the AURALiC app produces better sound than Roon within the AURALiC product line.  I ran into several issues in Roon - the biggest offenders being a hot/clipped signal and marginalized soundstage.  When I used a different streamer, the signal was not clipped so the optimization between Roon and AURALiC might not be 100% there yet.

I have no experience with Aurender and my point above is that if you do go with AURALiC, I'd suggest not letting Roon integration be the deciding factor if SQ is your overall goal.  The Lightning DS app is very good both functionally and sound-wise.  It does have a few quirks like most apps, but its still very solid.

Thanks for that info-- Not really a Roon user- I have it, tried it, not for me. I may try the Aurender then Auralic. Thanks again for the responses!!!