The Problem

Noise is the fiercest enemy of the most enjoyable aspects of music reproduction.

Micro dynamics, sense of space, detail, atmosphere… sheer delight.

Name those subtle features in music that open your own personal door to pleasure and all of them are affected by noise.

From the dawn of its existence, noise has been an enemy of hi-fi.

Today in the Digital Era, noise has become “The” enemy.

It not only affects silences. Noise also corrupts the process of transporting and recovering data itself.

In a way, noise has matured. It is no longer a “hum” or “hiss” in your speakers.

It has become something more complicated and much more difficult to deal with.

Once noise invades the sacred ground plane of a digital system, it seems to be everywhere.

Noise is very difficult to eliminate because it is inherent to some components, and since all components are interconnected, if one component has noise, all connected components can be affected.

The only solution is to confine it wherever it resides. Keep it from polluting the most critical components of the audio system.

Modern digital high-end audio means streaming, local (LAN) or remote (WAN), and in both cases that involves a router, or a switch, or both of them.

A switch is noisy, and a router is even noisier.

But not only them, a local server with all its processes and clocks running is noisy too.

Not to mention the local network itself.

Truth is, in all of its shapes and manifestations, noise simply denies silence.

And silence, is a vital part of music.

Our approach is rigorous and animated by a constant concern for quality.