Pearl Audio has been an Aurender dealer since 2015. OS X 10.5 has fewer overhead processes taking up CPU/Memory and throwing off the timing of it's digital music output).
(Note: This is why year 2007 Mac OS X 10.5 is actually better sounding than successive OS X's. This means the OS is built to have zero unnecessary features or processes which can slow down or interrupt the jitter-free serving of music to your DAC or DS player.
This MacBook Pro comes with dimensions of 0.95 x 14.35 x 9.82 in and a weight of 5.6 lbs (2.54 kg). It can also be a host to the Windows OS 7 (32-Bit) at a minimum and accommodate operating system as high as the Windows 8.1 (64-Bit). Materials Needed: Apple Mac mini (Late-2012) Hirose HR10A-7R-4SC (73) Panel-Mount Connector.
Purpose built, proprietary high-end audio operating system. This MacBook Pro comes standard with 4GB of RAM, but users have the ability to upgrade it up to 16GB. One reason this is such a popular mod is because the Mac mini operates natively on 12 VDC, making it a perfect match for car batteries, and more importantly, the DC power distribution systems already found on many sound carts.This means it is born and bred to serve your high end audio DAC or DS with low-jitter (timing errors) playback while keeping electrical noise out of the air (EMF - note thick aluminum panels), out of the Network Connection, and out of the USB connection. Purpose built, proprietary high-end audio computer motherboard.It's been a common hodrod trick to put a low noise power supply on a Mac Mini ($800-$1500). Low Noise high end audio power suppy which does not pollute your electrical power (a big big deal!).This 5V is heavily polluted by your high noise computer, which was never designed to supply a nice quiet, low noise power feed to it's USB output - why would it be? A computer USB port, in most cases, supplies the actual 5 Volt power to the USB on your DAC. Noise Free USB output for your DAC which is electrically isolated so computer noise stays out of your dac.The SSD can serve the music files with fewer timing errors, so your music sound better. Music files are copied to the SSD then played back from that. Built in large mechanical Hard Drive cached by a smaller SSD Cache Hard Drive.The big reasons the Aurender sounds better are:
A lot easier to use with a lot less to go wrong.Aurenders support USB playback to your USB DAC, but also act as a superfast (SSD Caching!) network music server.Supports Tidal & QoBuz streaming, DSD, FLAC, AIFF, WAV + more.Aurender comes with Aurender Conductor, an extraordinarily well done iPad app for playback and control.It absolutely, positively sounds better than a Mac Mini.Why buy a music server instead of a Mac Mini or Laptop? Solid Gaming PC No crazy RGB but itll run very well 1,200 OBO -Corsair Case -Nvidia RTX 1070 -MSI z270 Mother Board -Intel i5 7600k, overclockable -Cooler Master Red CPU Cooler -2TB HDD -2x8GB DDR4 3000MHz -520W Seasonic Fully Modular Power Supply -WIFI-6 & Bluetooth PCIe Card with antenna RGB Keyboard and Mouse -Redragon M601 RGB Mouse. We wrote a check to buy them too, and it frankly took a little convincing for us to move away from our custom built super hotrodded mac mini computers with all their way-cool music enhancing software.
We carry the Aurender Music Servers at Pearl Audio Video.