Eagleeyes Posted December 14, 2020 Share Posted December 14, 2020 (edited) SOLD Item Condition: NEW Shipping Options: Pickup available but audition is not available.,Shipping is available at agreed cost. Suburb or Town: Perth State: WA Payment Method: Paypal - EFT Reason for selling: Excess - cash Some info borrowed from sna member Wedge Biggs as he wrote a perfect advert for his version of this amazing product. Best streamer server with twin hard drives and latest hardware and software updates. Further information: I am the original owner, purchased new from Antipodes Audio in New Zealand this July 2020 and unused to date. Brand new still in box. . Unit comes with original packaging/boxes/contents, and proof of purchase ** ** Unit is intended to be used as ROON SERVER and ROON READY END-POINT. It can also be used with Spotify Connect, or a standalone dedicated music server for 2TB of locally stored files ** Happy to organise fully insured shipping anywhere in Australia If you are not already familiar with the Antipodes family of products, the below summary will hopefully be useful: 1. The "DX" series was the flagship of Antipodes until the recent introduction of CX and EX- the DX is a CX and EX in one box and use same software. 2. The DX has improved over three generations - culminating in the last single-box Antipodes flagship: the DX 3 3. The DX3 was an improvement in build quality / features vs. previous generations, e.g. an upgraded linear power supply 4. This unit on sale is a true gen 3 - not an upgrade from an older model., benefiting from the latest in design of the power supply & outputs (upgraded older models are the majority of used DX products in circulation these days) 5. Upon release of the CX/EX the DX3 was still the flagship offering, having an RRP well in excess of the CX (the current flagship) 6. I have done the A/B and have found no audible difference between the DX3 and the current CX+EX solution. This is a compliment to both the DX3 and the CX+EX! 7. The DX3 is intended to be used as a server + streamer in the same box... as opposed to the CX (intended to be core/server) and EX (intended to be streamer/endpoint). Helpful for those conscious of box count. 8. The DX3 has the flexibility to be used as an ethernet server only - with ethernet out to a streamer or streamer DAC. In my experience the DX3 streamer is superior to all other external streamers I have tried to use (e.g. an Antipodes EDGE). 9. I do not believe there is any superior dedicated ROON core/streamer solution anywhere at any price. This. is. the best. digital. server. period. For skeptics among us servers DO have a material impact on your sound quality if you plan on being digital. As unintuitive as it might be, the way the "0" and "1" are managed prior to reaching the DAC actually MATTERS The steps up in servers is not dissimilar to the steps up in the sonic quality from a comparable DAC upgrade. To me the DX3 provided the following clear improvements over the Aurender X100, which I used previously: 1. The DX3 removes all traces of digital edge - when combined with the right DAC, it could be responsible for bringing the digital experience as close to analog as might be possible 2. The sound floor drops to nothing, it reaches way down into a bottomless abyss 3. There is a greater sense of space - resulting in a much larger seeming sound stage 4. Because the background is so quiet, you hear more of everything and imaging is crystal clear This unit comes with 2TB of SSD storage which contains alot of my music that antipodes changed over from my older dx1 and an extra 1 tb drive added which is brand new and clean. And of course all the same benefits apply equally to whether your stream (TIDAL on ROON) or play files stored locally on SSD. Photos: Edited December 22, 2020 by Eagleeyes 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jhsg Posted December 15, 2020 Share Posted December 15, 2020 Fantastic unit with the best customer support I have ever seen!! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eagleeyes Posted December 15, 2020 Author Share Posted December 15, 2020 31 minutes ago, Jhsg said: Fantastic unit with the best customer support I have ever seen!! I can honestly say that Mark Jenkins and his team offer awesome customer service... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
delphi17 Posted December 15, 2020 Share Posted December 15, 2020 Can’t believe this great unit hasn’t been sold yet. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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