thank you ;)

If you want to know my opinion, then I would proceed from how important it is to maintain balanced connections. If this is not critical for you, then the A200 will definitely be a more reasonable choice. It works noticeably faster (I mean the response of the interface) than A10, and inside it is not so simple as to unequivocally be considered a lower level device if we compared them with an unbalanced connection.

You should look at the Aurender N150 or 200 or the new Innuos Pulse series.

Hi Steve, I'm using now A200 as a transport with Metronome Le Dac 2. I can say that A200 as a transport is similar to N150 in terms of quality. N200 is definitely better.

I listened to the rs150 once and it was quite good in terms of display, connections and usability. I'm absolutely in love with the size of its display, but I can't say how good it sounds. I didn’t have enough time, but my interest doesn’t fade, so I will definitely do a detailed review if there is such an opportunity

I would Aurender to be superior in both performance, sound- and build quality. Aurender have developed servers for longer than most others on the market where today’s designs are very mature and refined.

@@ampli-fi I have owned a Rose 150 for 5 months. If you're the kind of guy that loves constantly screwing with a cell phone trying to figure out things like why it suddenly started sending some calls to voice mail out of the blue, why it doesn't tell you the date and time those messages were left, or you think the process to upload CD's you had ripped to your laptop should be difficult, or the process to just play all the songs on an album should be extremely complicated, you'll love the 150. Me, not so much. So I'm now checking out Aurender models.

$6,300 USD

@@philipgardiner2003 For that price it should have XLR. I have a Auralic Altair G2.1 which goes for this amount with XLR. I guess that's my main gripe.

@BrianGarside Nice. I looked it up. The Aurilac Vega 2.1 has Sabre based DAC chip. $1,000 more, but worth it for my needs. Thanks!

@@philipgardiner2003 Glad to help, congrats. One note on the Vega it is similar to Altair but with no Wifi or Music Server built in like Altair, but may sound better. They have the G2.2 released as well.

@@philipgardiner2003 One last comment. I'm confident you will love the Vega like I do with my Altair. They continually upgrade the firmware, the units are built to last. Also since it has a real analog preamp with volume no need to buy a separate pre-amp.

You can access Aurender's HDDs from PC without a problem, but you can't connect your laptop by wire directly to Aurender (it's not necessary)

@@ampli-fiThx, but I don't understand. If a laptop cannot be connected "by wire" to an Aurender, how is it connected?

Definetly

Hi Harish. Unfortunately not :( When you tap on Genre you will see only 20 main genres only. When you tap on Rock you will see endless list of groups. 🤷‍♂️

@@ampli-fi Thanks Eugene - when you see the 20 main genres, is there a "More" button to see the next 20, etc? Or is that it? Also, can I search for a Genre? Also, apparently you can set up your Genres in folders - I am wondering whether that is worth the work.

If we talk about your file library, then the application can sort by artist, genre, composer, conductor and by folder. It depends on what your files have in meta tags. You will be able to see everything in the application, but you will not have a hierarchy like Rock -> Blues-Rock. Everything will be on the same plane.

P.s. in terms of player only, of course, given that the latter is also dac and amp.

Unfortunately I have never listened to this Rose, so it's hard for me to talk about it. :(

@@ampli-fi no worries, thanks anyway for replying!

Unfortunately it can’t. Only Tidal, Qobuz and Spotify