Just add Remote Control
This is iFi's answer to creating a purpose built streamer to pair with any of your devices in your home. Its built to compliment all the other Zen products from iFi. This is a lossless streamer so you can not worry about losing signal to compression or degradation. They have allowed for simple connection to the internet via LAN (RJ45) connection or via WiFi (antenna provided). Just choose your app to control this system and your listening to music with ease. Its capable of streaming signals up to PCM384/DSD256.
Utilizing Todays Highest speed connections
ZEN Stream is designed to provide you with the best possible sound in this categories price point. Its the perfect match to any of their other Zen products or your other electronics you have at home. If you are a Roon user, you'll be happy to know that this is Roon Ready so its seamless to use.
Here are some of the specs from iFi:
- Two SuperSpeed USB3.0 ports with Active Noise Cancellation II
- S/PDIF out with the iPurifier built-in
- iFi software developed with Volumio open-source as the starting point, then coded and optimized by us to achieve the purest streaming software bar none.
These are some of the factors behind why the ZEN Stream is at the cutting-edge handling PCM384/DSD256 on LAN and WiFi (802.11n, with 100Mbps on 5Ghz).
This ensures that the ZEN Stream is not merely a ‘jack of all trades’, but a master of all too.
- All-in-one (AIO) covers all modes
- ROON Ready
- Tidal streaming
- NAA streaming
- DLNA streaming
Please note software updates may take 2-3 minutes. Please do not disconnect your device.
Tech savvy
Beneath the unassuming casework sits some serious horsepower in terms of both technologies and components:
- Powerful 64-bit quad-core ARM Cortex microprocessor
- USB and S/PDIF interfaces regulated by femto-precision GMT clock to eradicate jitter
- Active Noise Cancellation II and iPurifier technologies for USB and S/PDIF interfaces respectively
- Intelligent Ethernet switch controller
- High-PSRR, low idle current, low-dropout voltage regulators with soft start
- Synchronous 1.6MHz high-speed precision power supply controller
- C0G capacitors and Taiyo Yuden and Murata low ESR inductors
