NAD CS1 Endpoint Bluetooth Network Streamer

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If you are new to these measurements, please set aside some time to watch my video on DAC measurements. Android users can do the same, but it happens inside the Google Home app, which lets you use the CS1 as a Chromecast audio device. The CS1, as a certified Roon endpoint, lets you use Roon to manage all of your digital music and then stream it all to the CS1. And it’s also an appealing solution for adding streaming to a legacy entertainment system like the one in Ian and Roberta’s lakeside home.

You may still be able to play them — an app like Bubble can perform on-the-fly DSD transcoding to PCM, but this feels wrong.The NAD CS1 is simple network streamer that will add streaming capability to most hi-fi amplifiers either via it’s analogue RCA or digital outputs. It supports Google Chromecast, so you can transfer playback from any Cast-enabled audio app; and Spotify Connect and Tidal Connect, so you can cue up music in the apps for those services, and then transfer playback to the CS1. I connected the CS1’s analog outputs to RCA jacks on the Sony receiver to check if there was a sonic difference between the CS1’s analog and digital outputs in Ian’s system. If you use it as a S/PDIF player I do not think that you have any choice apart from the Naim app but I might be mistaken, of course. Like the CS1, the MXN10 is Roon Ready, and supports AirPlay 2, Chromecast, Spotify Connect, and Tidal Connect.

The 96kHz limit is displayed on the DAC but with the same track on Bluetooth from the same Qobuz App, the sample rate falls. This is a fabulous product that works faultlessly and consistently and it performs best, in my view, as a digital transport but also offers a solid analogue output. In my review on Simplifi, I described the Node as “an affordable, painless way to add streaming and other 21st-century capabilities to a legacy audio system.Add streaming capability to any system — or enhance your a pair of powered speakers — with the NAD CS1 endpoint network streamer.

The CS1’s network streaming support is entirely driven by third-party streaming solutions: Apple AirPlay 2, Spotify Connect, Tidal Connect, Roon and GoogleCast (which will likely handle the CS1’s network onboarding and configuration). The NAD CS1 Endpoint Network Streamer is a state-of-the-art audio component designed to bring the convenience and versatility of network streaming to your existing audio system. The CS1 employs audiophile-grade components and can play high-resolution audio, up to 24-bit/192kHz. This subreddit is for the budget minded audiophile that wants to grow out of soundbars, boomboxes, mini systems, portable bluetooth, lifestyle speakers, and PC peripheral branded audio solutions. Apple Music (plus >80k songs in my iTunes library) - Quite happy with the service up to CD quality via Airplay.And it works with the BluOS app, which has integrated support for more than 20 streaming services, including several that offer lossless and hi-rez audio. Also, while I am here, I concur with other users’ comments that the MConnect app doesn’t always show all devices on the network, so discovery seems a bit erratic. I’ve been using mainly Tidal Connect, which is excellent and mConnect for sharing and streaming from my Naim UnitiServe (the old one).