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good as it gets. The W20 does exactly what high end listeners want, it delivers the best possible audio signal
available. Without a source of this caliber there is no way to drive one's system to the fullest. The source material
can't get better than the weakest link in the chain. It just makes sense to start with the best signal one can
afford.
Listening to Doug MacLeod's There's A Time at 24/176.4 from the Aurender W20 enables one to hear this
recording to the fullest. The recording space, air around Doug's voice and guitar, and sense of realism that can
be heard in this wonderfully engineered album are astounding. I recently downloaded Sara Bareilles' album Brave
Enough - Live at the Variety Playhouse at 24 bit / 96 kHz. I copied it to the W20, queued it up, and let it play on
repeat. The entire album sounds terrific sourced form the W20. The low level detail audible when listening to the
album in the background is stellar. The sound quality is incapable of inducing fatigue. I also listened to this album
at concert levels and enjoyed every minute. Sara's cover of Goodbye Yellow Brick Road not only sounds superb
but the way she make it her own is just enough twist to get lost in the song without thinking about Elton John
(video). Music lovers and high end audio aficionados long to hear exactly what's on a recording without their
equipment editorializing. The Aurender W20 delivers listeners the best shot at this true reproduction.
Comparing the W20 to a CAPS v3 Carbon server revealed the sonic limitations of an off the shelf computer music
server. Even though the CAPS v3 Carbon server is completely powered from LiFePO4 batteries it doesn't deliver
the music signal to the rest of the audio chain as well as the Aurender W20. The CAPS server sounded like it was
adding digital artifacts and giving a false sense of clarity and detail compared to the W20. This type of sound can
lead listeners to conclude the CAPS server offers more detail or enables one to hear more of his music than the
W20. However, I caution against jumping to such a conclusion. Hearing things that one has never heard before
can be a fantastic experience, as long as those things are in the recording. Compared to other servers I've used
over the last several years, not including the W20, the CAPS v3 sounded fantastic and much better for the most
part. Now that I've lived with the W20 for an extended period of time I've finally found a server that I cannot top
with my own build or with any other server I've yet heard. There is a tendency to favor that which one builds
himself because there is an intimate level of knowledge about such a server, or any other component for that
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