PREOWNED - Aurender N100H Server/Streamer, with 2TB HDD, Silver

Description

Aurender N100H, Silver
Preowned

One of our customer purchased an Aurender N20 and brought us his well cared for N100H. This model offers the features and intuitive Conductor Control App (free of charge) fround throughout the line, at very reasonable cost. Here's a way to introduce yourself to a high-end unit at a great price!

Small, but Mighty!

Aurender's N100 series was a best-seller for over 6 years. It has recently been replaced with model N150, but the N100 series has provided music lovers the world over with an accessible way to love their music "The Aurender Way" - with an elegant user experience, and pristine digital signal output to an integrated amplifier or DAC. Available in three distinct configurations, N100 offers true audiophile performance from a small footprint.

REVIEWS:
 

The Absolute Sound - Editor's Choice: "Aurender’s N100H-2TB brings you a surprising amount of the technology, sound quality, and outstanding user experience of the flagship W20SE for a fraction of the price. You don’t get features such as dual-wire AES and clock input, but most users don’t need those things anyway. The internal storage is 2TB rather than 12TB, but you can always add a NAS drive. What you do get is the same outstanding Conductor app, Tidal integration, and Remote Support. Aurender’s Conductor app for iPad is by far the best RH has used—fast, visually appealing, stable, intuitive, and uncluttered, with features that have been refined through actual use. Sonically, the N100H comes close to the W20’s state-of-the-art performance, particularly considering the cost difference."

Sounstage! HiFi:

Bottom line

"Aurender’s N100H, like their S10 server I reviewed several years ago, sounds terrific. I don’t think I’ve ever heard a music server that sounds better, and maybe none as good. It stood out for its bass extension and impact, as well as its natural reproduction of midrange detail. Its looks are as classy as those of any component I’ve had in my system. I began to describe it as audio jewelry, but then realized that the phrase often means “gaudy” -- and the N100H isn’t. Although I had some quibbles about how Conductor worked with files stored on my network drive, if you store your music files on the N100H’s internal drive, there’s no problem. If that’s how you use the N100H, it’s flat-out outstanding." - Vade Forrester

Positive Feedback: "Big, robust, dynamic… and yet articulate, light, and airy. Sitting there nitpicking my music is not something I want to do when I am able to sit and listen… but yeah, as a reviewer you are asking me to do just that… so let me say this; I found myself not worrying what was going on, or not going on with my music… I listened to the music. The N100H does that to you. I never felt a rush to interrogate the N100H as to what it was or was not doing to any file I was having it send to either the Playback Designs MPS-04, the DEQX PreMate +, or the PS Audio DirectStream DAC. It worked flawlessly with any and all, making my music rather enjoyable. And if you have heard what I listen to, then that could be, for you at least, an insurmountable achievement."

Darko Audio: "Aurender’s N100H stylishly sidesteps the hit-and-miss, bit-by-bit world of PC/Mac improvement whilst simultaneously obviating the need for a separate music server or NAS. It’s a self-contained solution encased in a box that shows Aurender’s keen eye for sleek industrial design which, let’s face it, is sorely lacking at the affordable end of the audiophile music server segment (and even in some high end solutions). The N100H’s handsome looks, hands-on control and virtual VU meters will kick goal after goal for the silent majority who care about the icing as much as the cake.

"That the N100H arrives with more than enough potential and flexibility to satisfy both newcomers and experienced ‘philes alike – not to mention the unmissable fact you have to spend a good deal more money to better it – means the only appropriate way to wrap this commentary is with a bow:" DAR-KO award.