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About the Eos Stream
The Eos Stream is a full functioning streamer packed with all the important design philosophies of Ideon. No frills casework and controls, super low-noise power supplies, femto level clocking, optimised file rendering with no peripheral software or hardware to pollute proceedings and all the interfaces with hardware devices and internet streaming sources that you will ever need.
Specifications
SUPPORTED FORMATS (INPUT DEPENDENT) 44.1kHz to 384kHz PCM up to 32 bits, any DSD (up to 8xDSD)
SYSTEM SSD120GB for OS system
INTERNAL STORAGE Optional 1- 4TB for Music Libraries
DIGITAL AUDIO OUTPUT 2 X USB with proprietary Re-Clocking (one with 5v rail, one without)
INPUT Ethernet
EXTERNAL CONNECTIVITY 2 X USB 3.0 for external HD Music Libraries
POWER SUPPLY 3 X low noise linear power supplies (for all different voltage needs).
DIMENSIONS (W x H x D) 460 x 295 x 110 mm ( (18.1 x 11.5 x 2.9 in)
WEIGHT10 kg (~ 22 lbs)
Tech Insight
You can use your Eos Stream with any of the popular players such as Roon, JRiver, etc. In general, you can connect your Eos stream directly with anything supporting UPNP. Eos stream is a Roon ready device. With the Eos stream, Ideon provide a full functionality music player application. You can experiment with the Ideon application, which has excellent sound quality, or if you wish to use Roon as your main player, you can jump to “Roon as Your Player”, after the Ideon Settings section.
Matching & Setup
A lot of the considerations with setup of a streamer is configuration of your music sources and choice of interface application. The Eos Stream can be configured for a network based system or an online streaming service. Library management, searching and so-on are all provided for, and if you prefer, you can specify internal storage to keep network complexity to a minimum. Most users will probably wish to configure the setup for Roon or JRiver, where your experience will be reflected by the quality of either one of those systems.
The Eos Stream is a genuine hifi quality streamer, so good system husbandry and attention to setup should be applied. And it terms of audio performance, the Eos Stream delivers music with a wide dynamic range, great bandwidth and refined transparency, so the downstream system should be open and revealing with plenty of performance headroom.