The Ideon Audio eos Stream: Reference Streamer / Music Server platform
A state-of-the-art, high-performance streamer / music rendering engine
The Ideon Audio eos Stream utilizes trickle-down technologies and R&D gained, from our extensive work with our flagship Absolute Stream. Most of the Absolute Stream’s innovations and designs are found in the eos Stream in its own scale.
The eos Stream introduces significant technology and performance enhancements for rendering music files, including:
- 4TB SSD Internal Storage: Offering ample space for your digital music collection.
- Faster, Enhanced Memory: Doubling the previous capacity for faster and smoother operations.
- Embedded Roon Core: Eliminating the need for an external server running ROON, resulting in improved dynamics, soundstage, and tonal quality due to the superior hardware and ultra-low noise power supplies, already deployed internally.
- Streamlined User Interface: A revamped, simplified interface for Ideon Audio’s native playback software application.
- Qobuz Integration: Seamless integration within Ideon Audio’s native playback software allows users to stream Qobuz music service without requiring additional applications or subscriptions.
The Ideon Audio Design principles
As with all Ideon offerings, the eos Stream is a fully proprietary design, with audio technologies developed in-house.
When we set out to design the eos Stream, we aimed at achieving dynamic, life-like natural sound to complement the eos DAC and offer a high level of musical satisfaction, rarely found in digital playback.
This high-quality target led us to conceive the eos Stream as an audio device (in a very similar approach to the Absolute Stream) dedicated to music playback, rather than as a computer tweaked to play music.
Playback Versatility: You can use your eos Stream with Ideon Audio’s player application for best sound results, or with any of the popular thrird-party players such as Roon, JRiver, Audiorva, etc. In general, you can connect your Absolute Stream directly with any software supporting UPNP. Furthermore, it is a Roon-ready device, meaning you can use it as a Roon endpoint (Roon bridge), but it also now features ROON core embedded within the device, eliminating the need for an external ROON server.
It is a high-performance device which will play all your musical libraries whether they are on an internal or external hard-disk or NAS. Furthrmore, the eos Stream will play audio from internet streaming sources, like web radio and streaming services such as Tidal, Qobuz, Spotify, etc.
Real-Time core playback
Core CPU highly prioritized for audio playback only, ensuring optimized performance and sound quality (same approach as with the Absolute Stream).
Future-proof re-clocking / phase correction
For jitter elimination, a specially designed re-clocking circuit, comprising of a femto clock architecture, embedded in eos Stream as standard and not as an option with extra charge. This is an upgradable platform for any future technology advancements.
Independent power lines, special power for the rendering CPU
Separate, discrete, power lines with low noise linear power within the eos Stream circuit, provide the different voltage levels the device requires.
What we discovered during the design of the Absolute Stream – that the quality of transient current going to the CPU affected sound with the sonic result to be astonishing – was also implemented in the eos Stream. Thus, to improve transient current quality, accordingly, we implemented a proprietary, ultra-low esr, bypass power filter with superlative results in the sound.
Another unique advantage of the eos Stream circuit is the total absence of switching power supplies – not even intermediate ones within the CPU power rails.
Emphasis in noise elimination
Keeping in mind that sound quality is the foremost consideration, we avoided internal noise-inducing peripheral circuits as much as possible. Thereby, the eos Stream’s simplified, bare-bones operation provides superlative sound quality to the user—which is the music-lover’s target in the first place.