It’s amazing that digital can sound this good for $129. Using the Songbird with a couple of budget integrated amplifiers, and a few powered speakers lacking internal DACs, all provide excellent results. It shouldn’t take you more than about 60 seconds to be playing music. Power it up, locate it on your network, and go. Thanks to the Songbird being about the size of a 2000 grit 3M sanding block, it fits anywhere. The match is perfect, and for anyone with a Model-One, aching for digital/streaming playback, this is the way to roll. The obvious hookup for the Songbird is to attach it to the Andover Model-One in the living room, now under review. Elbows deep in an engine rebuild isn’t exactly the sweet spot anyway. This proves the way to rock in my garage system. While it is not a Roon endpoint (yet) you can work around this by using it as an AirPlay device, if you just want the sheer functionality that your Roon infrastructure offers. #Andover audio songbird Bluetooth#Thanks to an optical input, and an Ethernet port, you can use the Songbird as a straight up DAC, Ethernet renderer, or a streamer via Bluetooth or WiFi. Not a lot, eh? What the Andover Songbird does is sound great, and plug in to just about any device you might have, with zero fuss. As the Blues Brothers once said, “What do you want, Rubber Biscuit?” Seriously, think of all the exciting audio products you can buy for $129. And, it’s only $129.ĭigital purists will snipe that the Songbird only has 24/192 maximum resolution, and complain about all the stuff it doesn’t have. Now, with the release of the Songbird streamer, you can – and it’s outstanding. If you happen to own the Andover Model-One music system for your house, you’ve probably realized the only thing missing is a way to stream digital music to it. I’m in my happy place, thanks to the Andover Audio Songbird hi-res streamer. I’ve got my head under the hood of my car, changing radiator hoses, and I’m streaming my favorite tunes (in this case about 4 hours of XTC, spanning the entire catalog) on my old Marantz 2220B receiver on top of my tool box. Once DIGI32 is in production, we will certainly take your advice to contact Amir and also take the opportunity to send him a CORE32 pre-loaded with 24/96 test tones so he can try using LMS as an alternative source to Roon.Life is good. But you will also notice that even using Airplay, DIGI32 still massively outperforms the product you referred to. To prove the point, take a look at screen shots of our own measurements, you will see that the plot using Airplay is inferior to a 24 bit stream. I would not regard streaming 16 bit from Roon using Airplay as ideal, but Philip says that this is fine, providing that you accept lower performance verses 24 bit. You are clearly right on both counts, namely that ASR do review digital output devices and also that DIGI32 will dramatically out-perform the device shown in the link you provided. Thank you very much indeed for following up on this. Amir is very biased toward Roon, but perhaps if he had a super simple LMS server device to test, as well.Īn example review of a (poorly performing) Linkplay device review, with digital output measured: If yours can significantly outperform the dozens of Linkplay-based devices out there (most of which perform miserably), word would spread quickly, as ASR has significant influence among objective audiophiles. Lot of folks wanting a low cost device that "just works" vs having to build one with a RPi, etc. Yes, he regularly measures digital outputs of devices that have them. If you want to be one of the first people receiving one please either send us a PM here or sign up on our website to receive a notification once it is in stock. So far it is playing really well and looking like the official release won't be that far away. We have learned from our two previous releases and this time there will be no pre-ordering but just a preview phase. Unlike most consumer graded digital streamers our electrical S/PDIF output is fully isolated to avoid any kind of ground loops ensuring highest signal integrity. It supports all standard resolution up to 96 kHz at 24 bits. There is a standard optical TOSLINK output along with an electrical S/PDIF one. Instead of a digital-to-analogue converter the DIGI32 features a high performance S/PDIF transceiver chip.Īgain we took utmost care for fine-tune the surrounding audio related circuitry for best performance. Like DAC32 it is based on the ESP32 processor and the fantastic squeezelight-esp32 community software. After DAC32 and CORE32 the DIGI32 is our next family member.
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