{"id":150843,"date":"2022-11-17T21:22:39","date_gmt":"2022-11-17T21:22:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.techweekmag.com\/?p=150843"},"modified":"2022-11-17T21:22:39","modified_gmt":"2022-11-17T21:22:39","slug":"ifi-neo-stream-streamer-dac-based-on-proprietary-network-streaming-engine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/hi-fi\/ifi-neo-stream-streamer-dac-based-on-proprietary-network-streaming-engine\/","title":{"rendered":"iFi Neo Stream: Streamer-DAC based on proprietary Network Streaming Engine"},"content":{"rendered":"

The iFi Neo Stream network audio streamer was\u00a0conceived by\u00a0British digital audio developers as a universal device that takes into account the promising needs of audiophiles and music lovers – both at the same time.\u00a0The case, which is a little unusual for lovers of mini-devices from iFi audio, contains the main components of the device.\u00a0First of all, a quad-channel True Native DAC that supports PCM up to 768 kHz and DSD 512. It is paired with a 16-core XMOS processor capable of full MQA decoding (up to 384 kHz).<\/p>\n

Streaming and player capabilities of the iFi Neo Stream – support for UPnP (under various applications), Apple AirPlay or Google Chromecast, TIDAL Connect and Spotify Connect, and, finally, Roon Ready certification. All this runs on a proprietary Network Streaming Engine platform, written under Linux, with a quad-core ARM Cortex processor.\u00a0Moreover, Neo Stream can be used both as a pure streamer and as an external DAC.<\/p>\n

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In addition, the iFi Neo Stream is able to play tracks from USB-drives – for all this, the Stream-iFi software player is provided. Get a truly \u201cblack\u201d noise background from USB ports with ANC II active noise reduction technology.\u00a0In addition, the iFi Neo Stream is equipped with many other proprietary iFi audio technologies.<\/p>\n

In the UK, the iFi Neo Stream<\/a> is on sale for \u00a31,300.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The iFi Neo Stream network audio streamer was\u00a0conceived by\u00a0British digital audio developers as a universal device that takes into account the promising needs of audiophiles and music lovers – both at the same time.\u00a0The case, which is a little unusual for lovers of mini-devices from iFi audio, contains the main components of the device.\u00a0First of […] More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10404,"featured_media":150844,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[642],"tags":[779],"class_list":{"0":"post-150843","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-hi-fi","8":"tag-news"},"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150843","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10404"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=150843"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150843\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/150844"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=150843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=150843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=150843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}