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    MUSIC STREAMERS

    Nov 06, 2019 5 minutes

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    ▪ Audiolab 6000N Play

    £449

    The Audiolab 6000N Play is as unassuming as hi-fi streamers come, with a screen-less, largely unadorned chassis that gives nothing of its vast network talents away. But, behind that modest façade, it has every right to exude an air of quiet confidence.

    The Play uses the same ES9018 Sabre32 Reference DAC chip found in the company’s 6000A amplifier and Award-winning M-DAC, and features ESS Technology’s Time Domain Jitter Eliminator, which works to analyse and algorithmically correct the input signal to improve timing.

    The foundation of the unit’s streaming experience, meanwhile, is based on DTS’s Play-Fi hi-res, multi-room platform. Having Play-Fi at its software core means that, when connected to a network through ethernet or its dual-band wi-fi, the 6000N Play can access services such

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