The Auralic Aries Mini is a complete and powerful network drive, integrated into a compact and attractive housing. It will allow you to upgrade your audio system to provide more advanced connectivity and enjoy your audio files more simply and quickly.

DAC ES9018K2M & Powerful CPU

The heart of the Aries Mini is its proprietary Auralic Tesla Quad ARM A9 processor running at 1GHz. This one, in charge of data processing and associated with the Auralic Lightning DS OpenHome interface (iOS 8 compatible), allows fast, smooth and extremely efficient navigation and reading.

The digital-to-analog conversion part is handled by a DAC ESS ES9018K2M chip supporting high sampling rates up to 32bit 384kHz in PCM and up to DSD256. This chip uses the 32bit HyperStream architecture and Time Domain Jitter Eliminator technology, giving it a nice dynamic, THD+N of -120dB while significantly reducing jitter.

Connectivity

One of the strengths of the Aries Mini is undoubtedly its connectivity. Indeed, it offers an RJ45 Gigabit port as well as WiFi support, to allow you to access files stored on devices on your local network (computer, NAS, smartphone...). There is also a space to accommodate a 2.5" hard disk (not provided).

The device is also compatible with many streaming services such as Qobuz, Spotify Connect, Tidal and Internet radios. This way you can enjoy your favorite service to listen to your music simply. In addition, the Aries Mini is compatible with DLNA/UPnP and AirPlay protocols to allow you to easily stream your audio files from your smartphone.

On the output side, there is a S/PDIF Coaxial connector, Toslink Optics, stereo RCA and a USB-B 2.0 output to connect an external DAC and give it the advanced connectivity of the Aries Mini.

Video review of the Auralic Aries Mini by The Hans Beekhuyzen Channel

Auralic Aries Mini review by Qobuz

" The Auralic Aries Mini streamer is a modern device that offers a wide range of settings and reading capabilities, resulting in very good sound quality on its analog outputs. "