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432 evo standard music server

432 evo standard music server

432 EVO music servers at the little audio company,

The 432 EVO music server is a slimline device providing bit-perfect ripping and storage of your entire CD collection, as well as digital files. ALL U.K. 432 EVO servers use fast, silent, mechanically isolated SSD digital storage (an option in other countries). Like most servers, it sits on your network providing digital music to all of your household streaming devices.

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Being fully Roon compatible, it can be utilised in a Roon based system. For those preferring a cheaper option, it can be controlled by a number of Android and IOS apps for Squeezebox servers, such as iPeng, SqueezePad, Orange Squeeze, and Squeezer. One very useful feature though is the ability to be seen and used by general household streaming products via UPnP while also acting as a Roon Core in a main system connected directly via the USB output at the same time.

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All major sound formats are catered for and can be streamed bit-perfect, upsampled, or filtered by any one of ten digital filters, including Archimago's 432Hz tuning filter.

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The U.K. 432 EVO Standard comes with a dedicated, high quality, low-noise linear power supply from Sbooster. (an option in other countries), ensuring that even the base model in the range is fed a clean, even power supply in order to guarantee high quality music reproduction.

As well as hosting all of your digital music for your household streaming products to access at any time, 432 EVO's range of servers not only provide access to thousands of internet radio stations, but also the expansive music libraries of online streaming services from Spotify, QOBUZ, and TIDAL, adding all the flexibility you'd expect from a stand alone music streamer. All this is controllable by numerous available apps for IOS and Android for phones, tablets, or desktop. Why pay for a server AND a streamer when you can have both in one box?

 

All you need is a USB equipped DAC.

 

Even if you dont have a DAC of any type, 432 EVO have a solution for you. The 432 EVO Essence provides all the streaming features and flexibility of the Standard, and as well as adding optical and coaxial digital outputs, hosts a pair of Texas Instruments PCM1792A DAC chips in order for it to connect via analogue RCA connections, allowing it to function fully as a stand-alone one box server/streaming device, bringing everything digital you'd ever need to an analogue based hifi system. Read more on this model here.

TIDAL streaming,
Spotify streaming,
QOBUZ streaming,
432 EVO Standard music server in black,

While the 432 EVO Standard provides all the usual aspects of a music server you'd come to expect, it provides one seemingly unique one in the digital world - the ability to upgrade to any other model in the range (excluding Essence) due to being a fully modular design. Now, your cherished digital music collection and the server it resides in can grow with your system.

All major sound formats are catered for with 16, 24, and 32 bit bit depths, as well as sampling rates up to 768kHz. DSD is also covered from DSD64 to DSD512. Any of these formats can all streamed bit-perfect, upsampled, or filtered by any one of ten digital filters, including Archimago's 432Hz tuning filter.

 

Many years ago, instruments were tuned to 432Hz (A), but over time, more modern music has generally been tuned to higher frequencies, currently around 440Hz, in order to give a louder, sharper, more aggressive sound - not always desired characteristics. Nothing is altered in the storage of your digital music - that's bit-perfect - only on playback is the 432Hz re-tune performed on-the-fly, and can easily be switched in and out via settings accessed by a laptop or PC.

 

This is something you're going to hear more about as the UK reviews for 432 EVO products start coming through, but here's an older review which majors on the 432Hz tuning.

Forthcoming reviews will be posted here

HiFi Choice recommended product,
432 EVO Standard server silver,
full Roon compatibility,
Linux OS,
432 EVO Standard server in black and silver,

  • 2TB SSD digital storage

  • 2x USB 2.0 expansion ports

  • 2x USB 3.0 expansion ports

  • 1x realtime clocked gigabit ethernet

  • 1x HDMI output for DACS and AV products

  • WAV, FLAC, AAC, MP3, Ogg Vorbis compatible

  • DSD compatible [up to DSD512 in DSF and DFF]

  • MQA pass-through in Bit Perfect Mode

  • 432Hz Mode

  • user tunable linear phase filter

  • user tunable minimum phase filter

  • Quad-Core processor

  • 8Gb RAM

  • Roon compatible

  • controllable with most 'Squeeze' apps

  • TIDAL, QOBUZ, and Spotify streaming apps

  • internet radio access

  • Sbooster linear external power supply

  • upgradeable to higher models in the range

  • available in black or silver

  • H 69mm x W 435mm x D 325mm

  • 1 year warranty

  • £2995

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