PINK FAUN
2.16
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The 2.16 is the result of more than three years of development. It is designed with only one goal in mind; to give you the best music experience in both sound quality and manage your music library. The 2.16 is built around computer architecture. This is a well-considered choice. The powerful system can handle heavy tasks and playing your music is easy and natural, without high latency and buffers to keep the system stable. This results in a very fluent, organic sounding machine that lets you forget you’re listening to a digital device. The 2.16 will exceed your expectations as it transfers the essence of music: the emotion. |
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Additional information
The 2.16 can roughly be classified into three categories:
1) The linear PSU
2) The computer components
3) The software
1) The linear PSU is designed in-house and contains three transformers providing four main power rails from which all separate voltages for each part of the streamer are regulated. Every part of the streamer has its own dedicated regulation from the corresponding power rail. For example, the ATX to the motherboard contains 5 different voltage levels all having their own linear regulation.
2) The computer components are chosen for their stability and excellent performance. The streamer 2.16 can easily handle all PCM streams and DSD up to DSD512. Because of the stable and powerful processor, the streamer 2.16 can be configured with the minimum buffer-size in both ROON and HQPlayer. The processor is passively cooled with an 8-pipes cooling system and can handle the high DSD sampling easily. Playing normal Redbook audio, the load on the processor is between 0 and 1 %. Upsampling Redbook to DSD512x48 (HQPlayer / Poly-Sinc-XTR-2 filter) the load is between 12 and 16 %. The streamer standard has a Samsung Pro SSD for the Linux OS and there’s room for 2 more SSDs for music storage.
3) The used OS on the streamer 2.16 is a heavily modified version of Arch Linux (Low Latency / Real-time kernel / Headless). The advantage of using Linux is that you start with nothing and only configure what you really need for audio playback. The Pink Faun streamer 2.16 can work standalone and is fully controllable from a tablet and/or smartphone. The streamer 2.16 runs in a headless mode which means there’s no video driver loaded which results in an even lower noise floor in whole the system.
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2.16x
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In the 2.16X, we have improved some key elements from the 2.16 to bring the music experience to an exceptionally high level. The level of musical definition is redefined with the Pink Faun 2.16X. The 2.16X is built around heavy modified computer architecture. This is a well-considered choice. The powerful system can handle heavy tasks and playing your music is easy and natural, without high latency and buffers to keep the system stable. This results in a very fluent, organic sounding machine that lets you forget you’re listening to a digital device. The 2.16x will exceed your expectations as it transfers the essence of music: the emotion. Key features of the 2.16X•Digital output card features the Pink Faun low noise OCXO clock
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Additional information
The 2.16X can roughly be classified into three categories:
1) The linear PSU
2) The computer components
3) The software
1) The linear PSU is designed in-house and contains three transformers providing four main power rails from which all separate voltages for each part of the streamer are regulated. Every part of the streamer has its own dedicated regulation from the corresponding power rail. For example, the ATX to the motherboard contains 5 different voltage levels all having their own linear regulation.
2) The computer components are chosen for their stability and excellent performance. The streamer 2.16 can easily handle all PCM streams and DSD up to DSD512. Because of the stable and powerful processor, the streamer 2.16 can be configured with the minimum buffer-size in both ROON and HQPlayer. The processor is passively cooled with an 8-pipes cooling system and can handle the high DSD sampling easily. Playing normal Redbook audio, the load on the processor is between 0 and 1 %.
3) The used OS on the streamer 2.16 is a heavily modified version of Arch Linux (Low Latency / Real-time kernel / Headless). The advantage of using Linux is that you start with nothing and only configure what you really need for audio playback. The Pink Faun streamer 2.16 can work standalone and is fully controllable from a tablet and/or smartphone. The streamer 2.16 runs in a headless mode which means there’s no video driver loaded which results in an even lower noise floor in whole the system.
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/*secccccc*/2.16 ultra
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The symbiosis between the technical advantages of the digital, and the musicality of the analogue domain exploring new territories of hi-fidelity 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 has teamed up with the best companies in the world to bring you a musical experience not seen before in the landscape we call hi-fidelity. The flexible and modular architecture system guarantees a long-term investment that will easily adapt and grow with any changes in the evolution of your musical system. |
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Based upon the great success and the award-winning 2.16 and 2.16x music servers, the decision was made to investigate the possibilities to take digital even further which resulted in more than 15 months of redesigning every aspect of 2.16 ultra playback. This ultimately led to the uncompromising 2.16 ultra music server. The sole aim during the development process of the 2.16 ultra was to create a digital/music source with the most realistic and emotional musical experience based on our philosophy:
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