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Editors' Choice Award - Hi-Fi News Magazine
Five Stars - The Computer Audiophile
Pure Audio Performance and Exhaustive Feature Set – Now Roon Ready!
The Aurender A30 does it all, expertly. It's a caching music server, music streamer, CD ripper, full MQA decoder DAC, and headphone amplifier with HDD storage.
The A30 is the flagship model from Aurender’s range of analog output digital music players. Like Aurender's A10 and A100, the A30 is at its essence, a caching music server / streamer with internal storage along with intuitive control via the Aurender Conductor app. The Aurender A30 also includes full MQA Decoder technology, which enables you to play back MQA audio files and streams, delivering the highest possible sound quality of the original master recording.
Roon Ready, Too!
Here's great news! This Aurender model is now Roon Ready. See bottom of our product description (what you're reading now) for more information.
Award-Winning Performance
Hi-Fi News magazine honored the A30 with its coveted Editors' Choice Award.
"The A30 makes every nuance clear without the merest suggestion of harshness. Its sophistication never slips," notes Andrew Everard in his February 4, 2020 review.
"The A30 is a remarkably comprehensive device, and – from its stylish lines and display through to the slick Conductor app – clearly one that's been thoroughly thought through. It handles a huge range of formats, is easy to configure and a delight to use. Settle on a favoured digital filter and 'current mode', and few network/streaming DACs will deliver so much musical information."
Top Rating of Five Stars
The A30 received the top rating of Five Stars from The Computer Audiophile.
"Aurender's track record for great products and customer service over the last decade, now enhanced by its analog flagship A30, is proof that this company has taken itself to another level. I believe Aurender should now be considered one of the blue chip companies in HiFi. I unquestionably recommend the A30 to even the most knuckle-dragging, stubborn, old school audiophiles."
The Comprehensive Digital Focal Point of Your System
What distinguishes Aurender's A30 from other servers and streamers is its pure audio performance and exhaustive feature set. Aurender has designed A30 to be the comprehensive digital focal point of your system providing useful capabilities not usually associated with a typical music server. It includes functions like CD ripping, a high-quality headphone amplifier, 8TB of internal storage, ultra-wide color LCD display, and an integrated software suite of metadata editing and library management tools. All this, and much more, makes the A30 the new performance standard in all-in-one digital source components.
One-Touch CD Ripping
If you have a large library of CDs that you are itching into convert to digital files, the A30 is exactly what you need. Well equipped with a tray-loading, industrial-grade CD-ROM drive, the A30 will rip your CD to your choice of FLAC, WAV, or AIFF codecs for playback after conversion. The easy one-touch CD ripping also provides meta-data and cover art retrieval with a unique user determined target folder depository feature. AccurateRip™ technology is supported for 100% error-free rips. Additionally, the ACS10 provides software support for Acronova “Nimbie” AudioLoader for automated CD ripping.
"The Sound Is Reference-Quality"
"The sound is reference-quality. The build is reference-quality," observes Scott Hull at pt.audio , December 15, 2019. In fact, the A30 invites you to spend more on the rest of your system just to keep up with it. Given that you’ll be able to consolidate a preamp, a DAC, and a computer server all at one fell swoop, you might find that the A30 actually saves you money even as it ups your game. Now there’s a weird thought."
"The A30 can centralize and orchestrate your disparate musical world – from local files to NAS files, to streaming services. And this one-box solution from Aurender will not only seriously improve your audio system’s performance, it will also do that one thing that technology is supposed to do – it will simplify your life."
"A Marriage of Performance and Convenience"
"Aurender promotes its A30 with the tagline 'a marriage of performance and convenience' and says that it 'provides everything one needs to create, store, manage, edit and play hi-res file content in one compact audio source component," reports What Hi-Fi? magazine, August 11, 2022.
"Although, as I discovered, you will need to add a few other ‘bits n’ bobs’ – most of which you will likely already own – Aurender’s claim is close enough to the truth that I am prepared to hand them a hall pass, simply because the A30 does what it does so brilliantly well… and also because I so absolutely adore that front panel!"
"The Ease with Which Everything Works"
"Aurender really makes an all-in-one statement with the A30. Pair it with a few nice active speakers - think ATC SCM100 ASL or SCM150 ASL in rosewood - and you're done," suggests Jaap Veenstra, alpha-audio.net, October 7, 2020. "It's as simple as that. We estimate it will be extremely difficult to beat such a combination."
"Nice is the housing, the finish on the inside, the app and the various functions that work together beautifully. Think of ripping, searching, the large, beautiful display and the ease with which everything works."
Network Connectivity, USB Connections, Analog Audio Outputs, Headphone Outputs
The Aurender A30 support Network Attached Storage (NAS) and USB storage. For network connectivity and streaming, the A30 comes with one double isolated Gigabyte Ethernet port and two USB 3.0 data ports. The dedicated USB audio output has ultra low-noise power circuitry.
On the analog side, the A30 offers balanced (XLR) and unbalanced (RCA) audio outputs. The built-in headphone amplifier has three jacks, consisting of 1 x 4-pin XLR and 1 x 4.4mm balanced output 1 x 6.5mm unbalanced output.
8TB Music Storage and Solid-State Drive Cache for Playback
A 3.5” enterprise-grade HDD internal hard drive provides 8TB of storage and a 480G solid-state drive is used to cache music for playback. 8GB (DDR3) is provided for system memory.
An ultra-Wide 8.8” color IPS LCD display provides album art view when ripping and all system data on functions when in use. Metadata editing and library management software is available for computer-less library management. A Smart Copy feature allows for easy transfer of music libraries from other network attached devices and can perform duplicate file removal.
Heavy Hitting Internals
The Aurender A30 is packed with heavy-hitting firepower under the hood, including a discrete linear power supply with “super capacitor”-based uninterruptible power supply (ups) for stabilizing the unit under an abrupt power outage condition. The power supply boasts five individual toroidal power transformers for the server, digital functions, the dual DACs, and the headphone amplifier.
The dual-mono DAC uses dual-mono linear power supplies, with a 768 kHz / 32-bit Next-Generation Flagship AKM AK4497 DAC chipset. It's a full MQA decoder DAC. It offers sampling rates for PCM up to 768 kHz / 32bit, DSD up to 256 DoP, and native DSD up to 512. The FPGA-based precision data reclocking system uses a sub 100fs world-class jitter-reducing clock generator.
Increased Stability, Reliability and Overall Performance of Operation
The Aurender approach has always emphasized custom integration of software and hardware. When these elements are indivisibly engineered in-house, the company's components achieve increased stability, reliability and overall performance of operation. This approach is key to Aurender and sets Aurender's products apart from outmoded methods of running music software on a computer or powerful processor and using IT peripherals for storage and other purposes.
Intuitive Control with the Aurender Conductor App
Control and music management of all Aurender models is via the Conductor App, hailed by users and reviewers alike for its performance and intuitive operation. The iPad-based App was developed in-house with managing large music databases in mind, providing exceptionally fast browsing and searching of your favorite music.
In-app TIDAL and Qobuz integration provides access to these subscription-based services and to the millions of tracks available in CD quality or better. Internet radio support is via SHOUTcast.
A separate app, A30 Manager, equips the A30 with software programs for metadata editing and digital file management, allowing you to combine, organize and correct metadata in the way you desire. For peace of mind, remote Technical Support is accessible via the Aurender Conductor Application.
Roon Ready Upgrade
Here's great news! This Aurender model is Roon Ready. Roon Ready models now function as Roon Endpoints. This means you can play music using the Roon app if you have a Roon Server running on the same local network as Aurender music server/streamer units.
To ensure your device is Roon Ready:
- Update your Conductor App to the latest version (Minimum Requirement 4.25).
- Update your Aurender System Software to the latest version (minimum requirement 1.24.255 for AP20 and A1000, 1.24.265 for A20 and A30)
- Ensure you have Roon Server installed on your local network with an active subscription.
