Antipodes DX

General

The Antipodes DX2 is the ultimate music streamer for Ultra High End Audio installations. The DX2 features a dual Discrete regulated linear power supply, a High Power V4 Mainboard, and has a wealth of digital outputs available. The Antipodes DX2 therefore has a built-in CD ripper and pre-installed storage for your music. The heavy billet aluminum casing is identical to that of the DX3, except for the rear panel. So the DX2 is a Server, Ripper and Player in 1. Connect the Antipodes DX2 to your DA Converter via USB, Spdif or AES/EBU and you immediately benefit from the best sounding, most powerful and most complete Audio Streaming solution on the market.

Mainboard Technology

The Antipodes DX2 is equipped with the new medium power V3.5X mainboard for excellent and sufficient computing power and speed with Roon. Roon has in the latest version many options to adjust the sound. A complete DSP is at your disposal. Also, a very large music collection can require a lot of computing power. More computing power in itself is not a problem, but it must not compromise the extremely pure data stream with bits containing your music. The Antipodes DX2 has a mainboard developed together with Asus. This type of mainboard has a very long production life span, which has major advantages for the software development of the Antipodes DS Core. The Antipodes DX3 has a more powerful Mainboard built-in, the new Asus Antipodes V4X, but the DX3 has no SPDIF or AES/EBU outputs.

Storage

The Antipodes DX2 can play music from directly connected external storage sources, and from any internal storage present. The internal storage capacity ranges from 1Tb (3000 CDs) to 8Tb (24,000 CDs) and is exclusively SSD. We recommend the most direct connection to your DA Converter. The best way is to play from internal SSD storage, via USB Audio to your USB DAC, it cannot sound and function better. Optionally you can also connect the DX2 via SPDIF and AES/EBU, however DSD files will then be converted to PCM. The best way after that is to play from an external server, which is also connected to the Router.

Antipodes DX2 Front and Rear

Connections

The Antipodes DX2 has 3 pure audio outputs. USB Audio out to connect the DX2 directly to your USB DAC, a High Resolution SPDIF connection via RCA and a High Resolution balanced AES/EBU digital output. The USB output is recommended by Ohm-Audio BV because it passes all file formats directly, without conversion. DSD files are also passed directly, provided your DA Converter can handle it. If it cannot, the Antipodes DX2 can downsample the signals to the maximum resolution of your DA Converter.

You connect the Antipodes DX2 to your USB/SPDIF/AESEBU Dac and use the internal music storage

Roon

All Antipodes units are 100% built to work optimally with Roon but also with other protocols such as Squeezebox Server. Roon consists of 3 parts, namely Roon Server, Roon Ready and Roon Control. Roon Server manages your music library in the most logical and intelligent way you can imagine. Roon Server is also the only component that needs to be paid for. The software is not cheap, but absolutely worth every penny. Roon Ready is the player (RAAT Roon Advanced Audio Transport), the solution that plays the music to your system. Roon Control is the remote control to operate the player. Roon Control works with virtually any brand of smartphone, iPads, PCs, laptops, Macbooks etc. Once you get used to Roon, you won't want anything else to manage your music library and play music.

Listening

Looking at it any way you like, the DX series from Antipodes is the best sounding server on the market. You will be amazed at how much new information you hear. Everything sounds crystal clear and very analog, a rare combination. The special dual discrete regulated power supply does its job. The background is very quiet, and jet black. We have never heard it like this before. Rhythmically everything works perfectly. Every Antipodes Streamer we know and have compared with competitors sounds better, but the DX2 and DX3 take the crown. Ohm-Audio bv has all models in stock and ready for comparison.

Specifications of this Audio streamer:

Brand: Antipodes Audio New Zealand

Model: DX2

Price list: Download the latest Antipodes Price list

Hardware:

Storage Hard Drive Options: None

Storage SSD Options: None, 1Tb, 2Tb, 4Tb, 8Tb Mainboard Technology: Medium Power V3.5X Mainboard: ASUS Antipodes Special

Casing: Fanless Billet Aluminum Alloy CD Ripper: Integrated. Auto Rip to FLAC Compressed 5 or FLAC Uncompressed

Power Supply: Internal Dual fully discrete regulated Antipodes ODAPS Power Supply Output USB Audio PCM: Max 32 Bit / 768 KHz, DSD: Max DoP DSD 512, Native DSD 512 Software:

Roon Server, Roon Ready Squeezebox Server, Squeezlite MPD DLNA. UPnP, Open Home HQ Player, NAA Shairport Sonos Integration Plex Mediaserver Applications:

Find My Antipodes CD Import Auto Ripper Playback App Switcher External Drive Mounter Browser Based Web GUI SMB File Server

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