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What reviewers think
Bloggers and YouTubers have tried this product—so we've summarized their strongest opinions below. Links to full reviews follow.
Product Strengths
- Significant improvement over the standard Statement, with more dynamic range, quieter backgrounds, higher resolution, and more fine detail
- Enhanced bass performance, with more power, visceral impact, and improved control
- Larger spatial sizing and more vivid presentation of virtual sound sources
- Excellent musicality with a hash-free and low-noise sound
- The Innuos Sense app is stable, easy to navigate, and considered one of the best streamer software options available
- The Next-Gen only outputs via USB, not offering other digital outputs like SPDIF
Product Considerations
- A two-box system, which may require significant shelf space
- The upgrade to the Next-Gen version involves reworking both Statement enclosures and must be done by Innuos
- All changes from one model to another are internal, so diving inside their bonnets is mandatory to tell them apart
- The standard Statement is already excellent, so potential buyers need to evaluate if the upgrade to Next-Gen is worth it for them
Comparisons (according to reviewers)
- The Next-Gen provides greater dynamics, a more 3D-like presentation, and improved realism in voices and instruments, compared to the standard Innuos Statement
- It pushes aside the Melco N10 with a combination of rhythmic intensity and staging elegance
- It surpasses the Fidata HFAS1-S10U on agility, openness, expansiveness, propulsion—and doesn't sound mechanical because of that
- The Statement has better adaptive skills than the ZENith Mk3, allowing it to portray artists' intentions more accurately
Takeaway: The Innuos Statement Next-Gen takes an already outstanding music server to the next level with significant improvements in sound quality and detail. It offers an exceptional listening experience.
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Features
Specifications
- Digital Output: Re-clocked USB 2.0 supporting USB Audio Class 2, DoP, Native DSD and MQA
- Storage: 1TB, 2TB, 4TB, 8TB power-loss protection SSD
- Dimensions: 420mm x 352mm x 88mm (Server), 420mm x 352mm x 102mm (Power) (W x D x H)
- Weight: 8.2kg (Server), 16.4kg (Power)
- Power Consumption: 20W when idle, 35W peak
- Mains Supply: 230V AC / 115V AC – 8x Internal Linear Power Supply
- Sample Rates: 16, 24 or 32-bit / 44.1kHz up to 768KHz, DSD64, DSD128, Native DSD up to DSD512
Description
Astonishing realism, presence, depth and spaciousness - these are the hallmarks of our flagship music server/streamer. Designed to push the boundaries of Digital Audio to their limits, STATEMENT Next-Gen is a state-of-the-art source for the most discerning audiophiles.
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Brand highlights
Taking a step back to look at reviewers' thoughts of the brand's entire lineup—not just this product—what stands out most is the following:
- They emphasize a holistic approach to digital audio, demonstrated by their custom motherboards, focus on vibration control, and design of linear power supplies.
- Innuos products feature a USB output that incorporates a PhoenixUSB reclocker, designed to lower the noise floor and improve sonic precision when paired with a DAC.
- They customize their operating system, innuOS, to optimize performance, including selecting components and actively removing EMI sources.
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Pulse Mini
- Positioning: The entry-level network music player in the Innuos lineup.
- Description: Offers a compact design with a custom-designed motherboard and Intel quad-core processor, making it a great starting point for those new to HiFi streaming. It supports high-resolution audio up to 32bit/768kHz and DSD512, similar to the Zen Mini, but at a more accessible price point, making it ideal for small rooms or budget-conscious users.
Pulse
- Positioning: The mid-tier option in the Pulse series, offering enhanced performance over the Pulse Mini.
- Description: Features a custom RECAP2 LPSU power supply, providing improved sound quality with high-grade components like Mundorf capacitors. It includes upgraded digital outputs and 8GB RAM, offering better connectivity and performance than the Pulse Mini.
Zen Next-Gen
- Positioning: A versatile music server and streamer in the Zen series, offering modular storage and connectivity options.
- Description: Features a Gallium Nitride regulated power supply and a custom PreciseAudio mainboard, providing a pristine digital signal for enhanced audio performance. It offers modular architecture for storage and output, allowing customization beyond the capabilities of the Pulse series.
Zenith Next-Gen
- Positioning: A premium music server and streamer, offering advanced features over the Zen Next-Gen.
- Description: Includes an ARC6 NGaN Power Supply and a Core i7 processor, providing superior power and processing for high-end audio performance. It features a pSLC SSD for lower operating noise, offering a more refined sound than the Zen Next-Gen.
Statement
- Positioning: The flagship music server and streamer, representing the pinnacle of Innuos' offerings.
- Description: Features a groundbreaking Next-Gen Power Supply with 8 independent power rails and custom-designed components for unmatched audio precision. It surpasses the Zenith Next-Gen with its dedicated power supplies and re-clocking capabilities.
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Innuos is a Portuguese hifi brand that handcrafts digital audio components with advanced power supply designs and custom-built components, including their signature PhoenixUSB Reclocker for improved USB signal quality. Their proprietary InnuOS operating system and Sense 2.0 music app are praised for delivering more natural sound than Roon, while offering unique features like Assisted CD Ripping and rule-based music import engines.
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Extreme Server
29385
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The Taiko Audio Extreme is a State of the Art Music Server designed to deliver the most realistic sounding / live reproduction from stored music files and streaming music from Qobuz and Tidal.
Taiko Audio, considered the ultimate endgame music streamer in audiophile circles, produces ultra-expensive components. Their custom hardware and software stack, designed for maximal noise reduction, has become a staple in many of the world's most expensive hifi setups.
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Product Strengths
- Delivers music with a lack of digital artifacts, sounding closer to the original recording and venue than other digital sources
- Highly detailed construction with CNC machined chassis using a hybrid of copper, aluminum, and Panzerholz wood to mitigate RFI and vibration
- Dual Intel Xeon CPU design isolates Roon processes from audio processing tasks, improving performance
- Offers high-quality support, with Taiko providing remote assistance for setup and troubleshooting
- Optimizes both locally stored files and streamed music with equal performance
Product Considerations
- Custom USB board requires specific drivers to align with the DAC being used
- Native server software, TAS, offers better sound quality than Roon, but has a less user-friendly interface
- Windows servers might need constant support compared to LINUX servers
- High price point may be prohibitive for some buyers
- Massive size and weight (99 pounds) may pose logistical challenges
Comparisons (according to reviewers)
- Compared to Melco Zs or Innuos Statement, the Extreme represents a significant step up in performance
- Compared to Tidal Arkas, when playing files, the Taiko probably has the sonic edge, and ergonomically, is the more natural choice
Takeaway: The Taiko Audio SGM Extreme is a high-end music server that delivers exceptional sound quality and a more 'analog' listening experience. For those seeking the best sound from digital files and streaming services, this could be the right choice.
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Oladra
29000
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Released
2023
The Oladra is designed to be the world's best music server-streamer, in the way that the music will move you. Precision-machined from a solid block of premium alloy, its physical beauty matches the beauty of its music-making.
Antipodes is a hifi audio brand specializing in audiophile-grade music servers and streamers that reduce jitter and noise. The brand uses a proprietary Linux-based operating system for audio playback to maintain high signal purity.
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Product Strengths
- Deep tonal saturation, lushness, liquidity, and organic flow.
- More articulate, crisper, expressive, airier, and highly resolving than previous Antipodes models.
- Operates in an unforced manner that makes for immediate surrender on the listener's behalf.
- Incredibly refined and liquid, as well as lifelike in its expression and dynamics.
- Milled from a solid block of aluminum, with sleek and simple—yet subtly curved—lines
Product Considerations
- It is difficult for a reviewer to really tear into a music server the same way they would tear into a pair of speakers or a power amplifier
- Setting up the Antipodes Oladra music server isn't easy, and time will need to be spent getting used to it
- CD ripping is perhaps better described as painstaking rather than swift, the company opting for accuracy rather than speed
- Built like a very expensive amplifier
- Must be 'driven' via browser software running on a PC or, more ideally, a tablet
Comparisons (according to reviewers)
- Vs Antipodes K50, the Oladra offers a more exciting, incisive, and expressive rendition
- Vs Antipodes K50, the Oladra had more detail and more distinct detail due to the overall very quiet background
- Vs Pink Faun, Pink Faun is tighter, more precise and analytical, Antipodes more relaxed and organic
Takeaway: The Oladra offers exceptional sound quality, is a versatile music server, and will sound much better than just a laptop, creating a better music listening experience. The Oladra lets the music be its unadulterated self, is relaxed, and will never sound lean, gray, or analytical.
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Antipodes is a hifi audio brand specializing in audiophile-grade music servers and streamers that reduce jitter and noise. The brand uses a proprietary Linux-based operating system for audio playback to maintain high signal purity.
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Ideon Audio
Absolute Stream meta
20900
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Released
2024
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.
Ideon Audio designs DACs and streamers with proprietary technologies, including custom software and hardware that enhance standard components, and their signature femto clock architecture and zero-noise rectification technologies are built into every product. Their Absolute Stream features a unique real-time core playback system that processes audio directly from the kernel, while their massively over-engineered power supplies and modular design approach ensure both superior sound quality and future upgradeability.
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Product Strengths
- The CPU core is optimized for audio signal processing and uses Roon (bridge) software for files management
- The device can decode virtually any type of signal, PCM up to 32 bits and 384 kHz, and DSD from 2.8 MHz (DSD64) to 22.4 MHz (DSD512), and supports all streaming services
- It uses a classic linear power supply with a custom-made, high-power toroidal transformer and many low ESR capacitors
- The CNC-milled chassis takes 15 hours to fabricate
Product Considerations
- The manual indicates that its operation is very simple, but only if everything works as it should, as the control program did not always 'see' the transport
- The transport itself did not always turn on and sometimes had to be turned on several times before it actually started
- The reviewer did not manage to 'force' it to play DSD512 files from a USB flash drive, and with DSD256 files being played the DAC's display showed 'PCM 384' format
- The Ideon often choked on WAV files
Comparisons (according to reviewers)
- The Ideon Audio system offered an equivalent sound when compared with CDs, Master CD-Rs and SACDs and their corresponding files
- Compared to the Ayon Audio player, the Ayon Audio player represents timbre, space, and the structure of recordings similarly to analog tape, while the Ideon Audio player is considered an equivalent to a top turntable
Takeaway: The Ideon Absolute Suite is one of the best-built audio sources, with a modular design and proprietary solutions. It draws you into its world through dense colors and saturation with information, and the amazing sound is worth experiencing
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Ideon Audio designs DACs and streamers with proprietary technologies, including custom software and hardware that enhance standard components, and their signature femto clock architecture and zero-noise rectification technologies are built into every product. Their Absolute Stream features a unique real-time core playback system that processes audio directly from the kernel, while their massively over-engineered power supplies and modular design approach ensure both superior sound quality and future upgradeability.
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Aurender
N30SA
25000
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Released
2023
The culmination of more than 10 years of research and product development has led Aurender to N30SA: the ultimate Digital Output Network Transport with the utmost in transparency, resolution, pace, rhythm, dynamics and revealing musical expression. In digital audio rendering, there are two predominant forces which must be mitigated in order to provide a pristine musical presentation: Noise and Jitter. N30SA's dual-chassis design physically and electrically isolates the sensitive audio outputs from the noise-generating components of the machine to deliver an uncanny kind of coherence and quiet.
Aurender is a hifi brand focused on digital music servers that offers unique storage configurations with user-installable drives up to 16TB, particularly beneficial for audiophiles who prefer streaming services. Their servers feature specialized components like Oven-Controlled Crystal Oscillators for AES/EBU output and dual-mono DACs with analog R2R stepped-attenuator volume controls, which minimize noise and jitter for superior sound quality.
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Product Strengths
- The Aurender N30SA separates noise-generating components into a separate 'power' box to maximize physical and electrical isolation from the digital audio boards in the 'audio' enclosure
- Full-color album artwork is displayed
- An onboard 480GB caching drive temporarily stores music before playback
- Up to 16TB of storage is possible with a second internal 8TB drive
Product Considerations
- The N30SA uses an IPS LCD panel, while the Aurender W20SE uses an AMOLED display
- The N30SA has a single AES/EBU digital audio output, while the W20SE has a pair capable of delivering DSD128 over DoP
Comparisons (according to reviewers)
- Vs Aurender W20SE: The N30SA is a two-box design that separates the noisy components, whereas the W20SE is a single-chassis player
- Vs Aurender W20SE: The W20SE has thicker alloy casework
- Vs Aurender W20SE: The W20SE has an AMOLED display, while the N30SA has an IPS LCD panel
- Vs Aurender W20SE: Full-color album artwork is displayed, while the W20SE does not
- Vs Aurender W20SE: The N30SA has a single AES/EBU digital audio output, while the W20SE has a pair capable of delivering DSD128 over DoP
Takeaway: The Aurender N30SA is a high-end music server offering ample storage for large music libraries, and it separates power and audio components for better sound. Its clear display and flexible storage options enhance an audiophile setup.
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Aurender is a hifi brand focused on digital music servers that offers unique storage configurations with user-installable drives up to 16TB, particularly beneficial for audiophiles who prefer streaming services. Their servers feature specialized components like Oven-Controlled Crystal Oscillators for AES/EBU output and dual-mono DACs with analog R2R stepped-attenuator volume controls, which minimize noise and jitter for superior sound quality.
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Pink Faun
2.16 Ultra
21331
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Released
2022
The Pink Faun 2.16 ultra is the newest addition to our portfolio of digital playback systems supporting locally stored music files and will streaming content from high quality sources such as Qobuz and Tidal. The 2.16 ultra digital playback system is the acumination of years of experience with digital and analogue combined with Pink Faun's groundbreaking OCXO clock technology.
Pink Faun is a Dutch hifi brand that combines digital technology with analog design philosophy, handcrafting digital music streamers with a focus on reducing digital noise through their proprietary OCXO clock technology. Their flagship 2.16 Ultra Streamer features a modular design for customization, while their specialized USB and LAN cables are engineered to minimize interference and improve audio quality.
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Product Strengths
- The 2.16 ultra does not need a tablet or WiFi to operate, and can be operated from a hardwired Mac
- The music server has its own software that plays music from SSD, Qobuz, Tidal, or NAS
- Offers a 'play&relax' feature that disables the network port's power source during playback to encourage focused listening and potentially improve sound quality by disabling any active drive during playback
- Modular design allows for customization of output cards, clock performance, and internal SSD memory, preventing built-in obsolescence
Product Considerations
- The base price starts at €20'325, making it a significant investment
Takeaway: The 2.16 ultra could be worth buying because it's built to order and easy to use since it can be used with your computer. It focuses on high sound quality by disabling distraction.
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Pink Faun is a Dutch hifi brand that combines digital technology with analog design philosophy, handcrafting digital music streamers with a focus on reducing digital noise through their proprietary OCXO clock technology. Their flagship 2.16 Ultra Streamer features a modular design for customization, while their specialized USB and LAN cables are engineered to minimize interference and improve audio quality.
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