The most innovative streamer / music rendering engine today The Αbsolute Stream is an audiophile music server/streamer which renders music files. It is a high-performance device which will play all your musical libraries whether they are on an external hard-disk or NAS. Just as importantly, the absolute Stream will play audio from internet sources, i.e. radio and web services such as Tidal, Qobuz, Spotify, etc. Design principles When we set out to design the AbsolAute Stream, we aimed at achieving extraordinary sound to complement the Absolute DAC. This quality target led us to conceive the Absolute Stream as an audio device dedicated to music playback, rather than as a computer tweaked to play music. We applied our design principles with no-compromise to the Absolute Stream: massively over-engineered power supply, abundant ultra-low noise power, discreet power lines to critical points of the circuit, circuit stability and isolation, constant phase / timing correction. Real-Time core playback Core CPU highly prioritized for audio playback only, ensuring optimized performance and sound quality Realize the potential of your music The Absolute-Stream will play your private libraries from HDs or NAS, it works as a Roon bridge rendering your music into the device’s CPU, and of course, it renders Internet streaming services with maximum possible integration (Tidal, Qobuz, Spotify, Web radios, etc) Future-proof phase correction For jitter elimination, a specially designed re-clocking circuit, comprising of an no-compromise femto clock architecture, embedded in Absolute Stream as standard and not as an option with extra charge. This is an upgradable platform to protect our customers’ investment. Over spec’d Power Supply Huge, linear, power supplies have become an Ideon Audio trademark. The Absolute Stream has a very large main power bank composed of audiophile, low esr, silk caps; we also included a high-wattage, hand-made, audiophile transformer. KEY FEATURES Real-time core playback. Rendering CPU highly prioritized for audio playback only, ensuring highly optimized sound quality Works as Roon bridge, rendering your music from NAS or HDs into the Absolute Stream’s core CPU Internet streaming services ready with maximum allowed integration or via UPNP (Tidal, Qobuz, Spotify, internet radio, etc) Proprietary, femto clock re-clocking circuit on an upgradable platform Very large main capacitors power bank (low esr, audiophile silk caps), and hand-made audiophile transformer Proprietary, zero-noise rectification bridge eliminates diode-rectification noise Ultra-low-noise, linear power supplies, across all board voltage points Proprietary, ultra-low esr special bypass power filter improving the transient current for the CPU (spectacular sound improvement!); Short signal paths without wiring Simplified, bare-bones operation avoids internal noise-inducing circuits Audiophile design & solid aluminium construction
