Auralic Aries

Very rare sale on Audiogon, Auralic Aries high end audio wireless streamer/renderer. Complete with all original packing and accessories. This is the version with the dual femto clocks and Low Noise Linear PSU. This unit is basically new! Have less than 3 hours of total use.

This is an amazing device for streaming your collection wired or wirelessly. Supports Tidal, Qobuz streaming service as well. Has latest firmware and works flawless. Unit is in perfect condition.

Photo was taken before the unit has been re-boxed and packed, ready to be shipped.

Paid new $1600+ sales tax $142 (NY)=$1742 on Feb 27
My Price: $1400+shipping+Paypal adds 3%

Few excepts from websites:

Product Description
Auralic Aries
Computer Audio Without the Computer

Get your noisy PC out of your listening room. Stream up to Double DSD. Use with your own DAC (Hopefully it is DSD capable. If not, check out the Auralic Vega).

The Auralic Aries serves as a bridge between music on network storage and DACs, enabling your server to stream music quickly and superbly via Wi-Fi in virtually any format, including DSD, double-rate DSD and DXD. the Aries includes a switchable USB host output; digital AES/EBU, coaxial and Toslink connections driven by AURALiC's patented ActiveUSB technology; and an extremely accurate Femto Master Clock.

What does all this mean to you? It means that you no longer need a computer and associated cables in your listening room. You plug the ARIES into your DAC through the USB port and after installing the proprietary app for iPad/iPhone and you are ready to rock! Other ports are available (namely AES/EBU, coaxial and Tolink but will go only up to 24bit/192KHz).

Technical Features 


AURALiC Tesla Platform 
ARIES is powered by AURALiC's proprietary Tesla hardware platform that includes a Quad-Core ARM Coretex-A9 processor running at 1GHz, 1GB DDR3 onboard memory and 4GB internal storage. The Tesla platform has a calculation ability of 25,000 MIPS, more than enough to decode a vast spectrum of audio formats, including AAC, AIFF, ALAC, APE, DIFF, DSF, FLAC, MP3, OGG, WAV, WV and WMA. AURALiC has chose this platform for a long term supporting consideration, the feature planned include DSD upsampling, room acoustic treatment and other acoustic DSP function.



Gapless, Multiple Room Solution 
By using OpenHome structure which is adopted by U.K-based streaming solution manufacturer Linn, ARIES as well as all other Lightning based products support several advanced functions such as on-device playlist that allow control software to turn off during play and complete supporting of multi-room, multiple control points — functions that are not part of the legacy standards of the Universal Plug and Play (UPnP) and Digital Living Network Alliance (DLNA). 



Dual Femto Clock* 
The ARIES with two individual Femto clocks for both USB audio host and digital outputs: the clock used for digital outputs are in charge of generate master clock of digital signal to ensure lowest jitter performance for all digital outputs. Accordingly to our measurement, the USB controller's master clock can also effect sound quality as it effect USB interrupt timing when joint use with real time system, to maximum sound quality, ARIES also equipped with another Femto clock for USB controller. 



Low Noise Linear PSU* 
Excepting for low noise internal power supply design, ARIES also comes with an external low noise linear power supply unit. This PSU is based on AURALiC Purer‐Power™ technology with advanced AC filter and very low noise circuit design. The actual measurement shows only 10uV cross 20Hz-20KHz range.