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Antipodes Audio DS Reference Digital Source Zoom

Antipodes Audio DS Reference Digital Source

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Control. In the DS Reference’s playback engine room sits Music Player Daemon (MPD). It can handle PCM up to 32 bit/384kHz and DSD64/DSD128 via the DoP standard all played back bit-perfectly with zero gaps or glitches between songs. Gapless playback isn’t as common as you might think but here it’s all present and correct

USB output to your DAC comes from the well-respected SOtM tX-USB card. Here we find the older PCI version which Jenkins swears double-blind sounds superior to the later PCIe iteration. "The greater speed of PCIe generates noise in a much more damaging place than PCI. Long live 32 bit. It sounds better and we fortunately don’t have a problem getting motherboards with PCI."

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    Antipodes Audio DS Reference Digital Source Color: Silver Condition: Excellent This is a high quality music server The SoTM card is juiced via its 12V Molex connector from Antipodes’ internal custom power supply: regulated, linear and designed to shift residual noise out of musical bounds. "If you use a poor quality power supply (e.g. SMPS) the battery supply sounds quite nice in contrast but with a properly designed linear power supply the battery supply sounds inferior to ours", Jenkins adds. This same regulated linear power supply also feeds the clock that times the output stage. You can probably tell by now that this regulated linear supply is central to the Antipodes server’s sound. "If you took the DS and replaced just the transformer with say a high-quality toroid or C-core, the sound would be horrid and I mean really bad – lots of electronic hash and grunge." In keeping with the electrical noise minimization mandate there is a complete absence of internal cooling fans. The case here works as a heatsink to run hot to the touch, requiring plenty of ventilation space on all sides. Similarly there’s no WiFi. The DS Reference must be hard-wired to your router using the supplied Ethernet cable As this is a headless server, it can sit on your shelf or hifi rack without the need for the usual monitor, keyboard and mouse appendages. Only IEC power, Ethernet and USB connections are required to get up and running. System configuration is executed via Vortexbox’s standard web interface. With no keyboard or mouse attached, playback isn’t a point and click affair as per JRiver or iTunes. An MPD client is required. Antipodes recommend mPAD for the iPad, mPOD for the iPhone and MPDroid for Android devices. Clients also exist for Windows (Cantata) and OSX (Theremin, see below) both of which provide potential for slamming the door on household WiFi.
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