Digital / File Players / Digital Storage

DESCRIPTION

The Pink Faun 2.16X is a custom, heavily optimized Linux-based digital music streamer/server with no built-in DAC and running Roon core. Behind the front panel, mounted to a similarly thick transverse subpanel, are three massive toroidal power transformers that would not be out of place in 250W power amps. There are separate linear supplies for the processor, motherboard, SSDs, clocks, and digital output cards, reflecting the designer's obsessive concern for supplying each of the computer's multiple functional components with an independent, low-noise power source. The integrity of the data signals inside the Pink Faun was achieved by replacing the standard clocks supplied with this off-the-rack motherboard with PF's proprietary, sealed, Oven Controlled Crystal (Xtal) Oscillators (OCXOs for short), available in standard or Ultra versions. Ultra OCXOs, each operating at a frequency specific to its task, are used for the system clock, the motherboard, and in each of the I/O cards, called bridges by PF. The heavy lifting is done with an AMD CPU (8 cores), 32GB of RAM, and a 256GB SSD, running a custom Linux ultralow-latency real-time kernel operating system. Streamer/server with a very high level of transparency, resolution, articulation and wide soundstage. Extra boards and cards that come with this unit: Ultra-low noise OCXO for the motherboard (€1.750), optical fiber (€350), converter from Ethernet to fiber (€220), 1 x 8TB SSD (€700), 1 x 4TB SSD (€300), 2 x boards for the SSD (€350 x 2). 

SITE: https://www.pinkfaun.com/

SERIAL NUMBER: 2163479