Displays range from simple single line LCD displays to large and elaborate color display screens mounted on the front panels of these devices. Most of these devices come with a front display to display the list of available music tracks on the server, from which we can choose one to be played back. These are dedicated systems for drawing in digital music data from the media server and rendering them into audible music. There are a plenty of hardware renderers available in the market today from top HiFi manufacturers like Linn, Naim Audio, T+A, Audio Research Corporation, Cambridge Audio, dCS Ltd., PS Audio, etc.
The weak analog output signal is then sent to the power amplifiers for amplification and is made suitable for playback on a set of speakers.Ī renderer can be thought of as a standard ‘source’, like a CD player.
Naim-UniQute2-A Hardware RendererĪs the name suggests, this component is a piece of hardware or might even be a software application which accepts music data in the form of network data packets from a server, over a network and renders (convert and/or reproduce) them suitable for input to a dedicated DAC (Digital-to-Analog Converter) or performs the digital to analog conversion by itself and gives an analog output. Let us now have a look at what options we have for the renderer and the control point and how we shall set them up. This is normally a software application running on smartphones or tablet like devices or sometimes even on regular desktop computers and laptops. The Control Point is pretty much a remote control mechanism, which helps us with being able to browse the list of songs available on the server and choose one of them for playback on the renderer. The music renderer receives the digital music data from the server, over the network and either converts it to analog music signal or converts it into another digital format suitable for output through interfaces like USB or SPDIF to a dedicated Digital-to-Analog Converter (DAC). The music renderer and the control point form the other two components. Now that we are ready with two of the core components of the system, we will need to configure two other components to be able to receive and listen to music. In the first part, we dealt with the technology behind making music streaming possible and in the second, we got into the hands-on mode, for putting the streaming setup together and bringing it up into a functional state, by assembling and configuring the network and the music server components of the streaming system. The third and the final part of the series on hifi music streaming is here.
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