The brand new Cyrus Basic STREAM and Stream-XR BluOS-powered music streamers function AirPlay 2, Roon Prepared and hi-res audio help.
Cyrus first teased the business with its BluOS-powered music streamers greater than 18 months in the past, and now they’re official because the Cyrus Stream-XR and Cyrus Basic STREAM.
Chris HutchesonCyrus’s Head of Advertising and marketing, instructed StereoNET:
This strategic partnership with BluOS is essential for Cyrus. It permits us to focus on what we do finest, which is engineering amazing-sounding electronics, with the addition of the strongest streaming platform at present out there.
The Stream-XR joins the likes of the Applause Award-winning i9-XR built-in amplifier and CDi-XR CD participant within the firm’s premium XR vary of hi-fi separates.
In the meantime, the Basic STREAM slips into the revived Cyrus Basic vary, from which the Basic AMP has already impressed us.
Naturally, each new elements sport the Cyrus half-width chassis design. Essentially the most important distinction between the streamers is that the Stream-XR’s fascia is blessed with a show and a row of management/playback buttons. In distinction, the Basic STREAM rocks a extra minimal aesthetic, eschewing a display screen and controls in favour of a solitary energy button.
Operate-wise, the streamers share many options, together with AirPlay 2, MQA decoding, and Roon Prepared certification, together with Wi-Fi and wired ethernet connections.
Streaming smarts come by the use of the much-loved BluOS platform and Management app, which can quickly be getting an replace to model 4.0. Right here, BluOS arms the Stream-XR and Basic STREAM playback abilities and entry to common music streaming providers similar to Tidal, Qobuz, Deezer, Spotify and extra. Moreover, each fashions can decode lossless playback of high-resolution audio recordsdata as much as 24-bit/192kHz PCM.
The primary distinction between Stream-XR and Basic STREAM is beneath the hood. The Stream-XR is kitted out with a second-generation Cyrus QXR DAC, which features a “high-speed analogue buffer stage” and goals to ship the analogue sign as precisely and exactly as attainable. This DAC design relies on the ESS ES9038Q2M chipset, tuned by Cyrus’s engineering group to attain the “highest attainable efficiency”.
In the meantime, the Basic STREAM makes use of the primary technology of the QXR DAC, as employed by its Basic stablemates, the Basic AMP and Basic PRE preamp.
Relating to bodily connections, the Stream-XR (above) has a pair of analogue line-level outputs, one optical and coaxial digital enter apiece, and single optical and coaxial outputs. The Basic STREAM (under) has solely single optical and coax outputs and one pair of line-level outputs.
Nonetheless, each fashions may be upgraded by including an optionally available Cyrus exterior energy provide.
The Cyrus Basic STREAM prices £1,995, and the Cyrus Stream-XR is priced at £2,495.
