![]() ![]() With the new N50-H60, Melco fills the gap between the N100 and N10 models by adding another device to its range of music servers with streaming capabilities. New Music Server from Japan: Melco N50-H60 The new device aims to offer an especially wide array of features. IFi expands its range of streaming DACs with the Neo Stream. New Streamer including DAC iFi Neo Stream The British manufacturer dCS presents the new Bartók APEX as an improved version of the Bartók: high-end streamer, DAC, upsampler and preamplifier. Innuos launches a new version of the operating system for their music servers and streamers, which is mainly focused on the interaction of the devices with Qobuz and Tidal.ĭCS Introduces Upgrade for Streamer-DAC Bartók Software Update for Streamers and Music Servers from Innuos The streamer with built-in DAC and preamplifier RS250A from HiFi Rose is said to be available immediately in Germany, at an MSRP of around €2600. An isolated and shielded linear power supply, which is said to not affect the sound reproduction negatively, takes care of the providing the power. For inputs, the upgraded streamer offers USB, HDMI, coax, RCA and optical, as well as the identical outputs. Like the RS250, the new streamer offers the ability to play or rip CDs to the internal or an external storage via an external USB-connected CD drive. It can also play YouTube videos, either to a connected TV – up to 4K resolution, according to the manufacturer – or directly to the built-in display. The RS250A can also work as a music server if an optional internal 2.5'' SSD is installed, as well as play music from a NAS or USB storage devices. ![]() Music streaming on the RS250A is possible via Spotify Connect, Tidal and Qobuz, among others, as well as Airplay, Bluetooth, DLNA and Internet radio the streamer also carries a ROON Ready certification. Furthermore, HiFi Rose now incorporates in-house discrete operational amplifiers as well as better clocks, which is also supposed to positively influence the sound quality. Like its predecessor, the RS250A can also be controlled via the included remote control or the "ROSE Connect" app for iOS and Android.Īs technical improvements of the RS250A, HiFi Rose mentions, among other things, an improved DAC, which now works with an ES9028PRO from ESS, which is supposed to support resolutions of up to 32bit / 768kHz PCM and DSD512 and promises low distortion, among other things. The streamer has a D/A converter as well as a preamplifier built in and once again carries a high-resolution 8.8-inch touchscreen display on the front, which can also be used to control it – an Android operating system is said to promise quick and easy operation – and a control knob for volume/muting. The device is now also available in black in addition to silver. Qobuz is currently available in twelve countries: Austria, Belgium, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Spain, Switzerland, United Kingdom, and the United States.As the successor to the previously available streamer RS250, HiFi Rose's new RS250A is said to retain all the features of its predecessor, but offer, among other things, various upgrades designed to improve its sonic performance. The upshot of this latest Sonos/Qobuz upgrade is that end users now have the option to stream roughly 2% of the Qobuz library in 24bit/44.1kHz or 24bit/48kHz it also means that around 98% of that same library will still stream in the same CD-quality that Qobuz subscribers using Sonos have enjoyed since 2019 when the streaming service walked away from lossy MP3 encoding. Qobuz will instead – for now at least – serve a CD-quality (16bit/44.1kHz) stream. We might presume that S2 Sonos hardware simply downsamples all 24bit/96kHz and 24bit/192kHz streams to 24bit/48kHz - but we’d be wrong. (What happens next I had to pull not from the press release but from my Qobuz press contact). And the details of S2 Sonos hardware is that its 1) D/A conversion is capped at 24bit/48kHz and – therefore – 2) anyone pulling down a Qobuz stream (via the S2 Sonos app) with a sample rate higher than 48kHz will hit a wrinkle. ![]() Well, sort of.Īs with our recent Cambridge Audio x Tidal Connect story, the devil lives in the details. Around 4% of the French streaming service’s 70-million song library is available in hi-res – anything from 24bit/48kHz to 24bit/192kHz – and that hi-res content will now play via S2 Sonos gear. Makers of the world’s best-known music streaming speakers Sonos have today announced the imminent availability of 24-bit hi-res streaming for anyone using Qobuz in conjunction with their S2 platform. ![]()
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