Sunday, January 4, 2015

Renderman



Renderman was the technology behind the Pixar / Disney movies Toy Story. It was used to take a 3D image from vector matrix's (matrices), and produce a working film.

The X-PAC (not X-Men, another CGI-based movie), includes the X100 music player and X725 DAC / amp's by Aurender.

It's 2 x 230W @ 1% THD+N ratings suggest that it could power moderately controllable speakers such as the Magico S5. This would deliver a solid 22 Hz to 50 kHz frequency response performance. It comes with a good looking set of binding posts, similar to the Ayre MX-R, and similar to to the Ayre, it's cast in a cute form factor.

The X100 is available with up to 12 TB, which Aurender suggests is good for 10,000 CD's.

24/1921411 DVD Audio Disks[8.5 GB]
DSD2553 SACD's[4.7 GB]
DSDx21276 Korg Discs[9.4 GB]

We'd say this is a good amount for the average audio collector. To us, we'd suggest that the DSDx2 format is unassailable, though others would suggest otherwise. [DSDx4, DSDx8].

Product: Aurender X-PAC
Price: $4800.00 USD [X-100L], $3500.00 USD [X-725]
Manufacturer: Aurender [www.aurender.com]

JP 2015/01/05
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