BRICASTI DESIGN M5
Picture this scenario: You’re very happy with the carefully curated hi-fi system you’ve spent years putting together. You’re in love with your loudspeakers, you’re proud of the pre/power combo that’s driving them, and you’re delighted with your DAC. But you have this problem. You’ve been inveigled by the internet, with its promise of streamed music, downloadable music, all with the cherry-topped inducement of high resolution. Have you seen the problem yet? Yes, the problem is how do you interface your beloved system with the IOT? Indeed, how do you even interface it with your computer and the music files stored there-in…or somewhere thereabouts (and here I’m thinking servers and NAS drives).
The solution to this scenario is the Bricasti Design M5 Network Player… except that it’s not really a ‘player’ because it doesn’t actually ‘play’ anything at all. It just acts as an intermediary between a high-end audio system and anything at all computer-like. It keeps your computer, your home network… even the Internet, at arm’s length from your carefully curated hi-fi system. Indeed, to use Bricasti Design’s own description: ‘it is a network interface and media renderer that connects to your server via a local area network. With wide support for DLNA and other popular network protocols, the M5 delivers pristine lossless audio from your network to your digital to analogue converter so that your music server can.’
