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Aurender N10 - Sound quality performance is erratic

I am having problems with my N10. Some days it plays amazingly good, other days good and some days not good at all.

I live very near Aurender in SoCal and so I took my unit in for service and they provided me with a loaner. The first session after I put the loaner in the system was all-time good. Then the next day wasn't all that great. Then the next two days were good but no great. Anyway, this is just weird. Both N10s appear to exhibit this erratic behavior.

My internet is ATT DSL at 24Mbps and that has been suggested as the culprit (I was thinking about calling and asking them to give me a trial at 50 or 100 Mbps to see if the increased speed will eliminate the problem - 24Mbps is fast enough I almost never seen buffering in Netflix). It has been suggested that I get hi-speed cable to solve this problem and get rid of the twisted pairs on the phone line. I have tried a DSL filter and it hasn't seemed to help, assuming I've got it installed correctly.

So have any of you N10 users had this problem? If so, how did you fix it?
pokey77
hgeifman
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jon2020 has an excellent suggestion above. 

In addition, I suggest you delete the Aurender Conductor App from your iPad and reinstall it.  This will ensure you have the most current version and all its updates.  
pokey77 OP
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@jon2020 

Hi Jon,

You said "I then restart it with a long press on the Play button on my iPad. and the SQ returns to glorious after that and this works every time".

For clarification of "Play button", are you talking about the sideways triangle button at the top left of the screen? So I just hold it down a few seconds? -I've not heard of this tip but very glad you replied to my thread. I'm truly hoping this works when I try it later today.

@hgeifman 

I turned on my iPad and it asked if I want the latest update for the Conductor App and I downloaded the update. So I should be up to date now.
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jon2020
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For clarification of "Play button", are you talking about the sideways triangle button at the top left of the screen? So I just hold it down a few seconds? -I've not heard of this tip but very glad you replied to my thread. I'm truly hoping this works when I try it later today.
 
Hi pokey77,

Yes, the Play button is the triangle button, between the previous and next track buttons.
Just hold it down for 2-3 seconds and a menu will pop up for 2 options - Restart or Turn Off. Choose Restart.

Good luck! :)
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georgehifi
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If you read the Stereophile review of this unit, it seem to do a little trickery to anything that’s not MQA related, JA exposed it and I commented on it in the comments.

https://www.stereophile.com/content/aurender-a10-network-music-playerserver
" However, the A10's misapplication of the MQA reconstruction filter to non-MQA files stored on its internal drive means we must withhold a full recommendation for the A10 until this problem has been corrected.—John Atkinson"

And this was still the same even after a firmware update.

Cheers George
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jon2020
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If you read the Stereophile review of this unit, it seem to do a little trickery to anything that’s not MQA related, JA exposed it and I commented on it in the comments.
https://www.stereophile.com/content/aurender-a10-network-music-playerserver
" However, the A10's misapplication of the MQA reconstruction filter to non-MQA files stored on its internal drive means we must withhold a full recommendation for the A10 until this problem has been corrected.—John Atkinson"
And this was still the same even after a firmware update.


JA's comments apply only to the A10 which has its own dac section.
Neither the N10 nor the N100H has a dac section to misapply any signal, MQA or not. So this issue has no relevance at all to the OP's question.
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