![]() ![]() Concequently I purchased the Meridian MD600 and Meridian 818 which have served me well for about 4 months. Along came the top of the line Meridian 818 Reference Audio Core and that one managed to sound almost as good as the Klimax DS1 while simultaneously offering tremendously user-friendly operation. The DS/1 went on to add to that a sound that was every bit as engaging as the Levinson, but it costs an arm and a leg. The Linn Klimax DS/0 already proved that streaming audio can sound as smooth while having better treble extension and air. But be it coloration or not, computer audio for a long time hasn’t sounded as smooth or as fluid as my Mark Levinson 390S CD player. Good CD players still have a forgiving quality to them, which is perhaps rounding off as a result of error correction or the various stages of conversion going on inside. I’m not saying that they sound exactly alike because they don’t. What’s more: with careful setup and proper tuning 2012 was the year in which I could finally say that computer-based audio is a match for my favorite CD players in sound quality. I think that computer-based audio has matured rather quickly. I feel that I’ve come a long way since I pronounced computers inherently incapable of being as musical as high end CD players: devices such as Ayre QB-9, PS Audio PWD mkII, Linn Klimax DS/1 and more recently various Meridian Sooloos products have proven to me that there is indeed light at the end of the tunnel. Streaming audio and computer audio have long been fields of special interest for me. The picture above is the 43.5 cm wide version but there’s also a narrower 34.8 cm version of this casing, which is pictured below. For this review I’ll concentrate on the best model: the AAZ Ultra Flow. The AAZ music server is available in several versions, in various price ranges. One size cabinet (435x319x100 mm), 2 Tb, silver or black Interested? You should be! Review sample supplied by AudioAanZee, developer of and dealer for the AAZ music servers An affordable music server with a sublime user interface that challenges the best that I have heard. ![]()
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