The exaSound PlayPoint network audio player is loaded with support for sample rates up through DSD256 and PCM 384kHz as well as featuring playback modes galore. Enabling its customers to take advantage of whatever high resolution music they have or even resampling lower resolution to something higher with HQPlayer/NAA, is a hallmark of exaSound. You got it? exaSound can play it. Software features such as RoonReady and Roon Server, put the PlayPoint in a very unique class of components.
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The PP works very well with its new Kazoo/USB Drive trick, and very easy to set up. It's almost unnerving not to be relying on networked server and storage for a change!
The exaSound/Magnepan room was not a surprise…rather, a comfortable good friend. George Klissarov has this setup tuned quite well, and knows how to get the best out of the Magnepan 1.7 speakers with the exaSound DSD DACs. He certainly did so again at AXPONA ...
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A Roon Ready product is a hardware audio player which has implemented RAAT and been certified by the Roon team for proper implementation”. That’s how Roon themselves describe Roon Ready... A recent exaSound firmware update recently introduced Roon Readiness to the PlayPoint...
This step-by-step guide illustrates how to configure the Roon server running on the exaSound PlayPoint for use with the Roon Remote app.
You’ve been sitting on your hands, waiting for us to pull together all the bits needed for the next firmware update. Finally, exaSound PlayPoint Firmware 8 is available for remote installation! And, because we can’t sit still, we have a surprise for you as well. Read on…
One of the best configurations for the exaSound PlayPoint network audio player is to connect a USB hard drive with music files and to control playback with UPnP or OpenHome app. This mode of operation supports the following audio formats, sampling rates and resolutions in stereo and up to eight channels.