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Aurender upgraded my digital audio source in early 2024 from the discontinued N100SC to the N200, a slightly higher performing cache network transport, which is now reusing the same 4TB SSD previously feeding the N100SC.  I know people whose music library consists of 8TB of audio files and more, but even the 4TB is going to last me a very long time, partially because I routinely chuck those music that I never accessed. If I haven’t listened to a recording for over a year, chances are it is not important to me and it’s just taking up space and I won’t miss it. Despite my ongoing hording of a considerable CD collection, I access the Aurender more and more. For the review, I installed a separate SSD with 2TB of files into one of the two rear docking compartments of the AP20. There is no discernible difference in sound quality between sourcing the music files from the N200 via an Audience frontRow USB cable or from the SSD in the AP20 itself. Note that there is no digital output on the AP20, meaning its cache player feeds only the internal preamplifier and cannot be used as a reference cache player to pair with an external DAC.

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