![]() After launching the app on my iPhone, it found the Stream and changed the name of the device and also updated the renderer firmware to 3.6.71 which is actually newer than what Bel Canto shows on their web-site. ![]() The remainder of cabling in my system is Nordost Valhalla 2.īel Canto e.One Stream Sitting on Mapleshade 2" Oak PlatformĪfter physically connecting everything I powered up the Stream and installed the Bel Canto Seek application on my iPhone and iPad. ![]() I used Bel Canto REF 600M monoblocks and Monitor Audio Platinum II 500 speakers. The only other connection was an Ethernet cable to my gigabit Unifi SDN infrastructure. My Aurender N10 is connected to the same DAC with a Nordost Vahalla 2 Digital Cable with XLR connectors to use for comparisons. I connected the Stream via a Nordost Tyr 2 Power Cord and Ty2 Digital Cable to a Bel Canto DAC 3.7. I had a spare Mapleshade platform so decided to use that as a temporary platform for this learning and listening exercise. The Steam is in the familiar half width chassis that has been a staple of Bel Canto e.One products for many years. USB-A slot for music store on a hard drive.The e.One Stream provides access to thousands of albums by connecting to your preamp or DAC to TIDAL, Qobuz, Vtuner, or your personal NAS library. It can also be configured to see the track information. These features are controlled with a toggle switch on the rear panel. The display shows DLNA, Sample Rate and Codec. The Stream supports MQA, DSD, and is also a Roon end point. The Stream has several options that allows you to configure the unit in the way that works best in your audio system with the option to output digital or analog output. The Stream is set up to link your TIDAL and Qobuz accounts seamlessly, focusing only on high-quality streaming services that provides pure musical sound quality. The Stream retimes data for ultra-low jitter and isolation from the network environment, combined with robust power supplies creates the best signal source for your analog preamp or DAC. The e.One Stream is a high-performance asynchronous network bridge that connects your audio system to the internet and thousands of tracks of music. Both were new experiences for me as I personally use Aurender music servers. While there is similarity the devices, both can make use of Qobuz/TIDAL, the design philosophy is quite a bit different. I thought I would share some thoughts about using it with the native Seek app and also in conjuction with Roon. Unlike JMRC, I believe Roon/RAAT does not support native DSD over Ethernet (yet?), it’s DoP by default over RAAT, and no choice to disable DoP (except when a DAC is USB connected with ASIO Drivers).We recently had a customer request the Bel Canto e.One Stream so we ordered a demo unit. I believe it’s similarly framed over Ethernet/TCP/DLNA for DACs which support native-DSD over Ethernet. Separately, “DSD-direct”, (or “direct-DSD”, or native DSD, whatever you want to call it) is actually a 32bit framed data transport format (at least as implemented on XMOS/ASIO). So, requiring DoP framing for DSD coming into the dCS platform makes sense.ĭefinitely agree with Miguel, the Roon signal-path DoP tag removal is a cosmetic change only. Which I believe is also why dCS was able to “so quickly” invent DoP as soon as DSD streaming become a thing because they were already doing exactly that internally on the Vivaldi stack back in 2011/2012! ![]() Including from the streaming board into the rest of the system. However, unless I’m not mistaken, all I/O on the current dCS platforms are AES3 framed evidenced by the choice of AES3 interconnect for the Transport-to-DAC for SACDs for example (as opposed to FireWire on both previous generations of dCS’ flagship stacks). dsf file across say from your NAS to your PC for example - that’s DSD being streamed over TCP (with SMB or any other network protocol managing the transfer). In fact, neither does TCP on it’s own which you can see in action every time you copy a. Well, yes, technically, RAAT doesn’t require an additional framing of the.
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