Mano ULTRA mkIII Farad Music Streamer (High-Res)

Mano ULTRA mkIII FARAD Music Streamer

High-end streaming from any smartphone, tabled or PC or a laptop or whichever wireless device is at hand. This makes the listening experience much easier without compromising sound quality. The Mano Streamer is the ultimate streaming source for any DAC supporting coaxial SPDIF or supporting IIS HDMI inputs. IIS allows the DAC to derive ultra low jitter synchronous timing of the serial data that will be set up for transmission. Two femto clocks are applied for extremely detailed signal handling exact timing and low jitter thanks to these extreme accurate clocks powered by low noise (nV) discrete regulators.

DIGITAL OUTPUTS

• I2S HDMI – LVDS signal processing (PS-AUDIO “STANDARD”) – Compatible with all Holo, Singxer, Matrix and Audio-GD DAC’s)
• RCA SPDIF – 0.5V pp @ 75Ohm
• Optional: BNC SPDIF 0.5V pp @ 75Ohm
• Optional: AES/EBU 110Ohm

FILE TYPES

• Supported File Types: AAC, AIF, ALAC, DIF, DSF, FLAC, MP3, OGG, WAV, WV and WMA
• Playback DSD 64x, 128x (digital output max. DSD 64x DoP over Spdif / I2S)

DIGITAL OUTPUTS

• HDMI I2S LVDS = 44.1 Khz – 192 Khz | 16-24 bit – DSD64 (DoP)
• SPDIF OUT = 44.1 Khz – 192 Khz | 16-24 bit – DSD64 (DoP)

APPLICATIONS

Mano ULTRA mk3 is compatible and preconfigured with:

• Logitech Media Server solution (piCore)
  • iOS iPeng9 and Android app Squeeze Orange
  • Tidal, Qobuz, Spotify, and Deezer, Spotify Connect
  • local USB / NAS storage
  • Radio Stations (TuneIn Radio)
  • Localized in many languages including France, German, Dutch, Spanish
  • Song Lyrics in app

• Ropieee (XL) a ready-to-go solution
  • RoPieee is specific endpoint software that can be used with ROON Software

• Volumio Audiophile music player
  • Supports all filetypes: FLAC, Alac, Aac, Vorbis, Mp3, DSD etc
  • UPNP Playback
  • Airplay Playback
  • DSD Over PCM support
  • Integrated WebRadio
  • Mount USB drives and NFS Network Attached Storage, with an auto-discovery function
  • Localized in many languages including France, German, Dutch, Spanish
  • Native TIDAL and Qobuz Integration  (MyVolumio Virtuoso)
  • TIDAL Connect (MyVolumio Virtuoso)
  • Alexa Integration (MyVolumio Virtuoso)

• MoOde™ audio player (supports Airplay, Spotify, Squeezelite)
  • Radio Stations
  • Mount USB drives and NFS Network Attached Storage, with an auto-discovery function
  • Airplay, Spotify, Squeezelite
  • UPnP A/V and OpenHome renderer for MPD
  • MiniDLNA UPnP A/V media server
  • UPnP browser with folder scan
  • Qobuz and Tidal access via UPnP

INPUT CONNECTIVITY

• 1x RJ45 LAN Gigabit Ethernet port
• 4x Local USB hosts for media (USB drives)

STREAMING SERVICES

• • Spotify
  • Spotify Connect
  • TIDAL
  • TIDAL Connect
  • Qobuz
  • Deezer
  • Pandora
  • Internet Radio (Tune-In)
  • Radio Stations
  • Airplay (Apple)

TECHNOLOGY

• Automute I2S signal when switching between sample rates
• Supports volume control from application (Can be disabled)
• Fully re clocked I2S over HDMI output PS Audio / Audio-GD / Holo Audio / Singxer compatible
• Galvanic isolated and reclocked SPDIF output (RCA or BNC or AES/EBU Connection)
• 2x CRYSTEK FEMTO Clock’s. FIFO Oscillators designed specifically for High Definition Audio (HD Audio). It features a typical low close-in phase noise of -100 dBc/Hz @ 10 Hz offset, and a noise floor of -169 dBc/Hz. With this extreme low phase noise performance, you will “Hear the Difference”.
• Ultra low noise Tentlabs shunt regulators for oscillators and digital audio circuit. The shunts drop in instead of commonly used industrial types of regulators. Having much lower noise, true wide bandwidth and linear output impedance, they’ll bring improvement to sound in terms of:  Higher resolution, better transparency, clean low ends and increased dynamics.

HDMI LVDS I2S OUTPUT

• THE HDMI I2S output is “PS-Audio compatible”. Most of the manufacturers of DACs with HDMI I2S input use this format.
• I2S is like USB asynchronous connection. Compared to standard S/PDIF where clock signal is integrated in data stream a complex process is required in the DAC to transform signal back to asynchronous.
• With I2S the shortest possible signal path from streamer to DAC to analogue conversion is achieved.
• No additional encoding and decoding steps are required. USB does require this.
• The HDMI cable from streamer to DAC is less impacting the sonic quality and no expensive cables are required to obtain best sound quality.

The only disadvantage you could think of is I2S is not really a standard, although more and more vendors are supporting I2S as external in or output.

TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS

• Quad-core (ARMv8) 64-bit @ 1.4GHz
• RAM: 1GB LPDDR2 SDRAM
• Networking: Gigabit Ethernet
• OPTIONAL 2.4GHz and 5GHz 802.11b/g/n/ac Wi-Fi
• Storage: Micro-SD

DIMENSIONS

• Dimensions (mm) per. unit 190x132x48 (both units stacked 190x132x96)