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I don't think Apple allows rollback from iOS update, unless they are still signing 8.x which I doubt. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Did you try re-searching the network for the Aurender ? And also rebooting the Aurender ? I haven't updated to 9.1 yet - and likely won't for a while since I'm jailbroke on 8.4 - but occasionally they loose connectivity. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Exactly... Peter seems to have done quite well, on the other hand. Apparently he did not have rights to Boz's room correction intellectual property, so he developed his own variation e.g. RoomPerfect. I was recently reading about the Steinway-Lyngdorf Model LS which is quite similar to my setup, with Equibit amps incorporating DSP crossovers, correction, target curve EQ, etc. It goes for about $250k as a compete installed system - clearly he knows how to succeed in business

I've had my N10 for a week now and absolutely love it. It replaced a heavily modified SlimDevices Transporter. I am using the AES/EBU output to a fully digital TacT Audio setup, as it sounds better than S/PDIF and of course Toslink; there is no USB input on TacT. I was very tempted to build a CAPS v4 Pipeline, and still may later this year in order to experiment with Acourate, upsampling, etc. The cost of one with a good AES/EBU card and high end parts can get pretty high, plus of course the time and frustration associated with building and troubleshooting. But it is still considerably less than the N10 and the end result is a much more flexible product. On the other hand, the Aurender's simplicity of use and smoothly integrated hardware and software are wonderful and cannot be duplicated with a home built computer solution. I do think Aurender hit a home run with the N10. It uses exclusively linear PSUs - 3 of them in fact - and their OCXO clock must be exceptionally good, based on how little jitter I perceive with listening. I suspect it sounds at least as good, if not better, than the W20, unless one has a dCs, Esoteric, or similar master word clock.

Surprising how often I am asked that question. The fish don't seem to care. The air-glass-water interface is not so conductive to sound, relatively little actually penetrates into the water... think of how much outside noise you hear when underwater in a pool, as an analogy. And not even these subwoofers can come anywhere close to a whale, their low frequency vocalizations can travel 3,000 km through the ocean! It is indeed a shame about TacT. Boz is a genius, too bad he couldn't work with Peter Lyngdorf who had proper business skills. Things went downhill fast once they parted ways. I still have faint hope that Boz will jump back in one day, I know he had designed a RCS4 and some other products but decided to not go forward with them. Rather I believe he now is manufacturing some commercial lighting equipment... what a waste :-/

For me it it was the linear power supplies, full size chassis, high end clock (I don't have an external one so it will be utilized) and AES/EBU output as it is the best sounding input in my TacT gear particularly at 24/192 Mine will be arriving this coming week, I'm very excited to get it. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Thank you. Sounds like the Android app will work fine short term. Next month we'll see where Apple is heading with the iPad lineup and I'll either pick up a new Air 2 or wait for the Air 3 or whatever. They are supposed to have an iPad Pro coming out with a ~ 12.9" screen but don't need something that large and I already have the Samsung Tab Note 12.2 for sheet music anyway. My daughter has an iPad Mini and I find it too small, although pixel count is same as its larger counterpart, and too close in size to my iPhone 6 Plus. The iPad Air seems to strike a nice size balance. I use iPeng8 to control my Transporter and the Fusion Research OMS3 (which has three virtual players, I use the two analog outs for whole home audio and the digital as another source for the high end audio); I doubt it will recognize the Aurender but will report back one way or another.

I have a N10 arriving in a couple days, it is replacing one of the original SlimDevices Transporters. I was wondering if any Aurender owners are using the Android app to control it ? I have a Samsung Tab Pro 12.2 (purchased for piano sheet music primarily) and was hoping the app - which is listed as a beta - will work adequately. My only other tablet is an ancient iPad from ~ 2009, Apple dropped iOS support for that dinosaur after 5.x and looks like the Conductor app requires iOS 7 or later to install/run. I'll likely end up buying iPad Air anyway, but hoping to hold off a bit as the new model should be out in a month or so. My plan is to set it up in an iPort charge case and stand by my equipment and use it to control the Aurender and as well as the Elan G! home electronics and security, and my hopefully my GHL aquarium equipment. Also I was curious if iPeng 8 (excellent iPhone app) might 'see' the Aurender and be able to control it ? It is mainly a LMS remote contro, but I seem to remember reading somewhere that it worked with some other players that used Media Player Daemon, which I think Conductor is based on to some degree. Hopefully Surender will release a simplified iPhone app before too long, it would be a nice convenience since my phone is generally always on me unlike a tablet.

Hi all. I've been an audiophile most of my life but sort of took a break the past few years after moving to a new house. I finally got around to finishing the home theater and got my gear hooked up once again. I guess it is obsolete but I still love it and am excited to be able to enjoy it again. I found a lot of great info on this forum so thought I would share, as my experience in DSP and computer audiophilia probably predates many others here. Speakers are the Nola Grand Reference, an older version. The sub towers are basically four individual, stacked 12" ported enclosures. The main channels have a short line array of nine Raven R-1 ribbons and seven Vifa M13Mi-08 alnico magnet midranges operating as dipoles. Four 8" Seas Excel W22EX001 magnesium cone woofers, two above and two below flanking the line array, are each in individual sealed enclosures. Carl Marchisotto supplied the loudspeakers with outboard passive crossovers using first order electrical filters, as well as a Dalhquist DQ-LP1 electronic low pass crossover for the subwoofer amp; I don't use them and rather opted for a DSP alternative. Utilizing the steep crossover slopes available with DSP, I was able to make the subwoofers sonically (if not visually) inapparent. Dynamics improved considerably, which I attribute to rapidly rolling off the Ravens' output below their crossover point. Amplification chain is a complete TacT Audio setup with RCS 2.2X digital preamp and four S2150 power amplifiers. Each piece was modified by Aberdeen/MauiMods with upgraded power supplies, passive components, and internal cabling. I use the 2.2X only as a master volume control and digital signal distribution hub, except during the setup process when it is used for taking measurements needed for room/driver correction. Each amplifier accepts a full range PCM digital signal (up to 24/192) which is then transformed in real time using a custom filter that includes crossover, room/driver correction, target curve adjustment, parametric EQ, and time/phase compensation. Finally, direct PCM>PWM conversion is performed, with volume controlled by manipulating voltage on the rails; there is no attenuator in the actual signal path, nor are any bits lost to reduce level. Each driver group is connected directly to its amplifier. The designer (Radomir Bozovic aka 'Boz') was truly a genius and way ahead of his time. Sadly he lacked comparable business and marketing skills, and TacT is long gone. Fortunately the TacT gear seems more reliable than his subsequent 'Boz' line which I never bought into. Power is supplied by a PS Audio P10, which just recently replaced a Running Springs Audio Haley. I was hesitant to purchase it, having had a lot of trouble with a P1000 regenerator I bought many years ago, but this unit seems fantastic and the TacT gear really seems to thrive on the very clean and steady 120Hz. Power cords are all carbon ribbon from Michael Wolff, who sadly passed a few years ago. AES/EBU and S/PDIF digital links as well as speaker cables are Acoustic Zen. My source has been a modified Slim Devices Transporter, one of the original ones with the knob. I actually just ordered a replacement for it, an Aurender N10 in black. I chose it based on the reputation of the S10 it replaces and the W20 positioned above it. Also it happens to be a perfect cosmetic match for my TacT gear. I also was considering the Bryston BDP-2, Ayon NW-T, and Aurelic Aeries but I talked myself into spending the extra coin for the N10, which is a brand new model that should be a great match for my setup. I also have a Fusion Research OMS3 installed in a separate equipment rack (with a complete Elan G! home automation/AV/security system), its two analog outputs supply the 15 zones of home audio but I routed its S/PDIF output to the TacT gear using a long in wall RG-6 cable, also buried in the concrete. Unfortunately I have to use RCA and BNC adapters for it but it works okay and this source is primarily for stored compressed files, Pandora, Spotify, etc. anyway. I will load my FLAC and hi-res library on the N10 and have it backed up on NAS. Here are some photos of the system. The four pairs of speaker cables are very thick, so I channeled the concrete for them. Sound absorbing material is in place behind the fabric, so the room has some live-end, dead-end features. It helps with high frequency reflections, but does nothing in the modal range of course. The big glass box up front is a 450 gallon reef aquarium that should be getting filled soon, plumbing is almost complete. For movies, a screen drops down in front of the tank and a Denon HT receiver and modest RBH Sound 7.1 surround system take over the sound... obviously I am more picky about my music then my movies! The project is not quite done, I'm waiting for baseboards to be installed and a custom equipment rack that will be disguised as a coffee table. So the equipment will be staying right in front of the sofa, just the RBH center channel will above the table top. The Transporter will be sold or relegated to my office system. These are the filters I created and programmed into the amplifiers, using free 3rd party software called TACS. These days the trend seems to be to do this on the source end using products like AudioVero's Acourate... Sub filter: Woofer filter: Midrange filter: Tweeter filter: Final measured response at the listening position (middle graph): And this is the old tank, which i pulled out as it was a maintenance nightmare in the new house. Plan this time around is to ultimately have about the same amount of livestock in twice the gallons. I look forward to listening to music while watching live action in the tank.

Thank you for the review! I'm in the process of purchasing a (black) N10 myself and your observations certainly reinforced the conclusions I came to on my own. My system is fully digital (TacT RCS2.2X and four S2150 amps, all heavily modified) so I was trying to find a player/streamer with or without internal storage that was designed to audiophile standards, did not have an internal DAC as my system does not utilize it, and had an AES-EBU output which I have found works best with my gear. The N10 met all my criteria, and even matches my TacT gear almost perfectly. Other units I was considering include the Ayon NW-T, Bryston BDP-2, Aurelic Aeries. Like you I am somewhat of a computer geek and habitual tinkerer, so I was trying to avoid anything like a CAPS that would likely morph into an indefinite project The N10 will be replacing an ancient Slim Devices Transporter, one of the early units with the big knob. It was also heavily modified and sounds pretty darn good to this day - it was really the paradigm unit in this sector, quite sad that Logitech acquired Slim, neglected its development, then ultimately dumped it.