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These experiments nailed the capabilities of the Aurender N50 as a top-class music source. If you want to hear streams, downloads and even your CD rips at their best, and really can’t stretch to a quarter of a million (!) for the dCS Varèse, the N50 feeding a decent DAC would do very nicely indeed.

Hi-Fi News VerdictThree boxes just to drive digits into a DAC? Yes, and it works brilliantly. Combining Aurender’s super-slick operating system and app, the N50 has the capacity to compel a vivid, dynamic and thrilling sound from your choice of outboard converter. Just make sure to budget the extra for internal storage, and you won’t go wrong with what is an excellent keystone for a state-of-the-art digital music system.

Once again Noble has simply dominated their market segment with the Noble Audio Osprey TWS IEM. To be honest, it sounds better than most wired IEMs I have heard in its price range. Now it does suffer some of the shortcomings of lower-priced TWS: the ANC is noisier than the other FoKus models, offering a slight hiss for ANC, and a much louder his for Ambient mode, but that is a quibble as the noise levels that would necessitate the use of ANC are much greater than that hiss. The tonal balance, speed, soundstage, timbre of instruments, dynamic range, and most especially musicality raise the Osprey to a whole other category of sound from your average TWS regardless of price.

While the Noble FoKus Prestige still holds a special place in my heart due to its gorgeous wood and enamel finish on the charge case and matching pattern on the earpieces themselves, and the FoKus Rex dominates sonically,  I think due to its extreme value the Osprey has displaced them as my favorite TWS IEM.