Description
Platina Stream
Matching the bold design and substantial form of the flagship series, the Quad Platina Stream distils generations of QUAD engineering into a network player designed for the modern listener.
Platina Stream combines the brand’s renowned musical integrity with a clean, purposeful industrial aesthetic: a rigid metal chassis, side-mounted heat sinks, anti-resonance feet and an anodised fascia speak to QUAD’s obsession with build quality.
A single machined-aluminium knob and discreet function keys flank the crisp 4.3-inch IPS display, creating a digital streaming centre-piece that is both tactile and unmistakably QUAD.
App Controlled
Controlled by a dedicated Quad Platina app, it has been purpose-built to match its functionality’s pedigree, transforming any iOS or Android device into an elegant command centre for both local and cloud-based libraries. Refined typography, logical hierarchy, and fluid gesture control ensure the experience feels as considered as the hardware itself.
A lightning-fast indexer works in the background to catalogue network shares, USB drives, and streaming services as a single, unified library. Simply type a song title, performer, composer, label, year, or even a genre, and the app returns precise results in real time, ranked by relevance.
With user-customisable functions and settings, the Platina app offers the ability to build an on-the-fly playlist and save it permanently with a single gesture. The user can create playlists or folders to keep expansive catalogues organised and even collate multi-disc box-sets, remasters, or themed compilations into a single location for uncluttered browsing. Long-press on any track, album, or artist, and a context menu appears: add to playlist, queue next, play now, replace queue, and more.
Unlike many third-party front-ends, the QUAD app maintains native highlighting of Qobuz Studio / Sublime+ and Tidal Masters tiers with icons to indicate the provenance of such files, so one glance confirms you are hearing the highest-resolution version available.
Integration
For users who favour the interface of their preferred streaming service, Platina Stream provides full compatibility with Qobuz Connect, Tidal Connect, Spotify Connect, Airplay 2 and UPnP music server systems or digital audio files stored on USB HDD devices—delivering both flexibility and fidelity without compromise.
With the recent introduction of Spotify Lossless, Platina Stream also supports playback at true CD-quality from within the native Spotify app, ensuring every detail of the recording is preserved.
ESS Sabre DAC
At its core lies the ESS Sabre ES9038PRO eight-channel DAC, driven by dual precision master clocks for vanishingly low jitter, class-leading linearity and support for PCM up to 768 kHz and native DSD512.
A Quad Arm® Cortex-A53 multi-core processor running at 1.8 GHz per core provides the computational muscle for fast library handling, album-art caching and rock-solid playback control.
This DAC matches the performance of the QUAD PLATINA INTEGRATED solution, for a seamless and precision-matched performance. However, by design the PLATINA STREAM offers wider functionality with its digital and analogue outputs – it will slot straight into any audio system by way of a pure digital or high fidelity analogue output option.
Connections
Thanks to its high-performance onboard digital-to-analogue stage, the stability and quality of the signal path are preserved with balanced XLR and RCA analogue output options.
Coupled with the choice of optical and coaxial outputs, this maintains the flexibility for integration into wider audiophile systems.
Platina Stream Wireless Network Music Streamer, in Black finish, by Quad
Features
- ES9038Pro 32-bit DAC
- 4.3-inch (800 x 480px) Large Size full view, full colour IPS LCD screen
- QUAD Platina Stream streaming technology (IEEE 802.11 a/b/g/n/ac)
- Native support for Roon Ready, Spotify Connect, TIDAL Connect, Qobuz Connect,TuneIn Radio and Plex
- Gapless Playback
- USB storage, flash drive, USB hard disk (Single-partition FAT32, exFAT and NTFS only)
- Android/iOS App Control
- Ethernet 10/100/1000 Base-T Ethernet, Auto-Negotiation
Specifications
- Model: Platina Stream
- General Description: Network Player
- Inputs
- 1 x Network Streaming
- 1 x PC USB (USB B)
- 1 x 12V trigger
- Outputs
- 1 x RCA
- 1 x XLR
- 1 x 12V trigger
- Supported File Formats
- DSD Lossless: DSF (DSD), DIFF (DSD), DoP (DSD)
- PCM Lossless: FLAC, Apple Lossless (ALAC), WAV, AIFF
- Compressed (Lossy) Audio: MP3
- Sampling Frequency
- PCM: 44.1kHz–768kHz (Supports 705.6kHz/768kHz fixed-point via streaming function)
- DSD: DSD64, DSD128, DSD256, DSD512 (Native)
- Digital Section
- Digital Output Intensity: 500 ± 50mVpp
- Output Impedance: 75 ohm
- Frequency Response: -0.01dB (20Hz–20kHz, ref.1kHz)
- Max. Sampling Frequency: 192kHz/24bit
- Digital Output: 1 x Coaxial, 1 x Optical
- D to A Converter
- Variable Output Voltage: 0 – 2.05Vrms
- DAC: ES9038Pro
- Frequency Response: ±0.5dB (20Hz–20kHz ref.1kHz)
- Total Harmonic Distortion: <0.001% ([email protected])
- Max. Sampling Frequency: 768kHz / 32bit
- Signal-to-noise Ratio (A-weighted): >116dB (RCA), >120dB (XLR)
- Output Impedance: 120 ohm
- General
- Standby Power Consumption: <0.5W
- Net Weight: 11.8Kg
- Gross Weight: 13.6Kg
- Dimensions (mm) (W x H x D): 445 x 134.5 x 348mm
- Carton Size (mm) (W x H x D): 500 x 225 x 450mm
- Finish: Black/Silver
- Power Requirements (depending on region)
- Safety Regulation Conformity: 220–240V ~ 50/60Hz, 100–120V ~ 50/60Hz
Included
- Power Cord
- Remote Control
- User Manual
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