Generally there are two means of getting music files stored on hard drives to this streamer by connecting a USB hard drive into the helpfully named ‘USB’ socket or attaching a network attached storage (NAS) drive to your router.
The LE’s power input socket helpfully displays its required 16v input voltage so it’s easy peasy knowing where the Sbooster’s DC output setting switch should be flicked to achieve correct output voltage. To supply a more stable current to the Aries LE circuits, you can spec the LE by buying an AURALiC ‘Purer-Power’ 10uV low noise external linear power supply unit (PSU) which comes with the Aries, costing £249.įor my tests I used the box supplied power adapter and being available at the time, a £260 Sbooster BOTW Power & Precision ECO 15-16v linear PSU with a £57 Sbooster Ultra filter. This is in difference to the step up Aries which uses better dual Femto clocks for both USB audio and other digital outputs. The Aries LE model is the standard variant which has a low phase noise clock, used to time the digital stream for the DAC, and comes with a ‘wall-wart’ type power adapter. Having this functionality the AURALiC Aries LE is a pure transport device which means it is intended to transport digital music to a Digital to Analogue Converter (DAC). In other words a device that talks to a router over ethernet or wi-fi to ‘stream’ digital music either from an online streaming subscription service like Tidal, or from storage drives connected to a router, containing ripped CD or downloaded files. Most people would consider a ‘bridge’ in AURALiC parlance to be a streamer. The AURALiC Aries LE certainly stands out from the crowd with its usual shape.ĪURALiC say the Aries LE uses a Tesla G1 processing engine to meet the demands of high resolution streaming which is based around a Quad Core Cortex-A9 processor running at 1GHz with 1GB DDR3 RAM and 3GB storage. A balance is struck between the required design and function therefore. Metal case streamers use an external aerial as the signal obviously can’t penetrate the case. Incidentally in keeping to this design the case has to be made of plastic, to allow wi-fi signals to reach its internal antenna. A flat rubber platform on the underside of the lower plate ensures its stability in a rack. The unit has a unique look with upper and lower curved plastic face plates, with the electronics and attractive orange display on black background encased in a centre sandwich. I get to grips in a review of the AURALiC Aries LE. However aside from 2001 space travel, I quickly learnt this AURALiC is very much 2018 capable HiFi when I progressed through my review.
It certainly would have fitted in well on that film set. Wireless / Network Digital Streaming TransportĮnvisaging what modern technology would look like past the millennium for his 1968 film, ‘2001- A Space Odyssey’, the space age looking AURALiC ARIES design might not have been too far from Stanley Kubrick’s mind.
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