The perfect streaming companion for the flagship audiolab 9000 series of hifi equiment is the new AudioLab 9000N Digital Streamer. The result of over three year’s development and innovation to provide a critically stable, high-resolution wireless (and wired) digital music playback.
Flexible and Capable
The format of the 9000N reflects the crisp elegance of the 9000A and matching CDT. Equipped with rotary controls and an absence of buttons (except for the power switch), the 9000N also implements the 4.3in colour screen, as found in the rest of the series – the perfect window for presentation for your digital music files… including full-colour album artwork.
The screen displays a variety of information in a more visually appealing way than most other streaming devices, many of which have traditionally relied upon the accompanying app for operational feedback and user control and interface. The 9000N’s display offers full menu controls, an array of options, and user settings, including multi-language selection and general display options.
Most impressively, the 9000N display presents details of format data, playback information and, as mentioned above, full-colour album artwork display. Album artwork is visible in the default playback screen but can also be expanded for an artwork-emphasised playback screen.
The display can even be set to display a VU meter in ‘analogue’ or ‘digital’ form, showing real-time decibel levels for the left and right channels – a satisfying graphical representation of the music as it plays. For a more minimalistic option, the display can be dimmed or turned off completely, as the user prefers.
Stream like a Dream
Proudly developed to combine an incredibly capable and equally stable streaming platform with Audiolab’s digital know-how, world-beating DAC implementation and signal flow, and the intuitive 9000 series general user interface, for the ultimate streaming solution.
The Audiolab 9000N app offers immediate access to Qobuz and Tidal, with full access to hi-res and MQA content, as well as Spotify, TuneIn internet radio and UPnP music server systems and digital audio files stored on USB HDD devices.
Roon Ready
And to add to the impressive list of digital audio platform compatibility, the 9000N is Roon Ready. Roon Ready devices are network players with Roon’s own streaming technology built right in, connected over your ethernet or WiFi network. These devices make bit-perfect high-resolution audio simple because they require no configuration, they give you access to the best audio quality and they provide stable, reliable playback.
Technical Specifications
I/O Details | |
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Inputs | 1 x Network Streaming 1 x PC USB (USB Type-B) 1 x Ethernet 10/100 / 1000 Base-T Ethernet 1 x 12V Trigger |
Ouputs | 1 x RCA (pair) 1 x XLR (pair) 1 x Optical 1 x Coaxial 1 x 12V Trigger (Link) |
Supported File Formats | DSD Lossless: DSF (DSD), DIFF (DSD), DoP (DSD) PCM Lossless: FLAC, Apple Lossless (ALAC), WAV, AIFF Compressed (lossy) Audio: MP3 MQA |
Sampling Frequency | PCM: 44.1kHz-768kHz (705.6kHz / 768kHz Fixed-point supported via Audiolab 9000N App streaming) DSD: DSD64, DSD128, DSD256, DSD512 (Native) |
Digital Section | |
Digital Output Voltage | 500mV +/- 50mVpp |
Output Impedence | 75Ω |
Frequency Response | -0.01dB (20Hz - 20kHz, ref.1kHz) |
Max. Sampling Frequency | 192kHz / 24bit |
Digital Outputs | 1 x Coaxial , 1 x Optical |
D to A Converter | |
Variable Output Voltage | 0 – 2.05V |
DAC | ES9038Pro |
Frequency Response | +/-0.5dB (20Hz - 20kHz, ref.1kHz) |
Total Harmonic Distortion | <0.001% (1kHz @ 2.05Vrms) |
Max. Sampling Frequency | 768kHz / 32bit |
Signal-to-noise ratio (A-weighted) | >116dB(RCA), >120dB(XLR) |
Output Impedance | 120Ω |