Magna Hifi is a site/company based out of the Netherlands who sells and services Audio-GD equipment. I have yet to have any dealings with them but have read good things. I was on their site the other day looking around and noticed they have recently created and started selling a music streamer / server. It looks very interesting and began to search around for reviews or ANYTHING written about it and did not come up with much, and not a single mention i could find on head-fi yet. So....thought i would check to see if perhaps anyone has indeed tried it out and just not spoken up about it, or at least raise awareness of it's existence to the wonderful people of head-fi.
Info from Magna Hifi's site: http://www.magnahifi.com/index.php/webshop/product/MH-HE-Pi2S
Lead-time for this handcrafted streamer is 4-6 weeks
DIGITAL OUTPUTS
FILE TYPES
SAMPLE RATES
CONTROL APPLICATIONS
MEDIA SERVER
INPUT CONNECTIVITY
http://www.audioenzo.nl/audio-gd-nos7-magna-mano/
Looks to be a great companion to Audio-GD dacs but by no means limited to.
Interested to get the thoughts from some of you much more knowledgeable head-fi folks.
Piece of ****?
Great new streamer at a fair price?
Has potential?
Thanks in advance!
Info from Magna Hifi's site: http://www.magnahifi.com/index.php/webshop/product/MH-HE-Pi2S
Mano Music Streamer (High-Res)
INTRODUCTION
Magna Hifi is proud to introduce high-end streaming from any smartphone, tabled or PC or a laptop or whichever wireless device is at hand. This makes the listening experience much easier without compromising sound quality. The Mano Streamer is the ultimate streaming source for your Audio-GD DAC (or any DAC supporting I2S input) making use of the I2S interconnect. The Mano streamer is built based on the extremely high Audio-GD standards such as discrete Class A power supply with more than 20.000uF power capacity, an high quality R-Core transformer and ultra-low noise oscillators.Lead-time for this handcrafted streamer is 4-6 weeks
FEATURES
High-end top-class streaming quality with bit perfect playbackDIGITAL OUTPUTS
- HDMI I2S Port - PCM - PS AUDIO SPECS
- RCA SPDIF - 75Ohm
- BNC SPDIF (OPTIONAL) - 75Ohm
FILE TYPES
- Supported File Types: AAC, AIF, ALAC, DIF, DSF, FLAC, MP3, OGG, WAV, WV and WMA
- DSD playback with DSD-over-PCM (DoP)
SAMPLE RATES
- HDMI I2S OUT: 44.1 Khz - 384 Khz | 16-32 bit
- SPDIF OUT: 44.1 Khz - 192 Khz | 16-24 bit
CONTROL APPLICATIONS
- Picore LMS: Any Squeeze application, iPeng for iOS, Squeeze Orange for Android
- Volumio: Music Player Daemon (MPD) Apps
- Volumio: Lumin, BubbleUpnp and other uPnP compatible control software
- All: Web Browser
MEDIA SERVER
- Picore: LMS (Logitech Squeeze Server)
- Volumio: Minimserver, Twonky, Synology Media Server Minimserver and more
- Volumio: DLNA/UPNP compatible
INPUT CONNECTIVITY
- 1x RJ45 Gigabit Ethernet
- 4x Local USB media (USB Stick)
- 1x 230V / 110V Power
- 1x WIFI Dongle (Optional)
STREAMING SERVICES
Streaming services supported are:- Spotify (Picore LMS)
- TIDAL (Picore LMS)
- Qobuz (Picore LMS)
- Deezer (Picore LMS)
- Internet Radio
TECHNOLOGY
- Fully reclocked I2S over HDMI output PS Audio / Audio-GD compatible pin layout.
- Galvanic isolated and reclocked SPDIF output (RCA or BNC Connection)
- 2x Crystek’s model CCHD-957 oscillators designed specifically for High Definition Audio (HD Audio). It features a typical low close-in phase noise of -100 dBc/Hz @ 10 Hz offset, and a noise floor of -169 dBc/Hz. With this extreme low phase noise performance, you will “Hear the Difference”.
- Based on Raspberry Pi 2 / 3 providing I2S output including the MCLK (Master Clock from Magna Hifi's digital board.
- Ultra low noise Tentlabs shunt regulators for oscillators and digital audio circuit. The shunts drop in instead of commonly used industrial types of regulators. Having much lower noise, true wide bandwidth and linear output impedance, they'll bring improvement to sound in terms of: Higher resolution, better transparency, clean low ends and increased dynamics.
- Low noise Power supply provided without generating unwanted noise and without passing it along into the sensitive digitital signal path.
- 2 original Toshiba 2SC5200 transistors and 20.000 uF power capacity
- High quality R-core transformer. The R-core transformer has high isolation degree. it can improve the signal-to-noise ratio, isolate the harmonic interference, reduce the noise, make he background cleaner. R core transforer can fully improve the quality of sound.
- Power rail for Raspberry and separated power rail for digital audio circuit
- Fully reclocked I2S signal path with seperated data reclocking.
- HDMI I2S Audio-GD output board compatible with Audio-GD I2S
- Aluminium black housing with 3mm front panel and blue led.
Here are links to a couple of reviews ( that translate well enough to be readable )
http://www.audioenzo.nl/magna-i2s-streamer/http://www.audioenzo.nl/audio-gd-nos7-magna-mano/
Looks to be a great companion to Audio-GD dacs but by no means limited to.
Interested to get the thoughts from some of you much more knowledgeable head-fi folks.
Piece of ****?
Great new streamer at a fair price?
Has potential?
Thanks in advance!