Audio Aan Zee Ultra Flow Integrated Music Server

Christiaan Punter has posted a review of the Audio Aan Zee Ultra Flow integrated music server (€1799) at HiFi Advice. His conclusions:

“So there you have it: the affordable AAZ Ultra Flow, combined with the PS Audio PWD mkII, stacks up really well against even the best Sooloos offering. That’s a huge achievement as far as I’m concerned! But I’m sure many readers will now think “yes, but how does it stack up to Meridian’s famed Sooloos user experience?”. Well, the AAZ Ultra Flow’s mPad iPad app has got even that aspect covered. Actually: navigation on the iPad is A LOT quicker than on the Sooloos iPad Core Control app and just as intuitive. The super high speed is accomplished by caching the entire library on the iPad itself, so it doesn’t have to get its info from the server all the time. This works reminiscent to the Widealab Aurender. The mPad app may not offer entirely all the tagging that the Sooloos system is capable of, but it offers everything I need and combines it with the freedom to search/play by tags or by directory. But importantly, the AAZ Ultra Flow also frees one from the big constraint that a system like Sooloos imposes on the user: that of total freedom to copy to and from the server and use any naming convention/folder structure that takes your fancy. As long as your ID3 tags are sorted, the AAZ will work flawlessly. Oh, and it reads tagged AIFF files, too!”

You can read the full review here.