Ideon Audio Absolute Stream Manuel utilisateur

User Guide

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THANK YOU!

Congratulations on purchasing the

Absolute Stream, reportedly one of the

best-sounding music servers currently

available.

If you are already an Ideon owner,

thank you for your continued trust in our

approach to music reproduction and we

hope you will soon enjoy the absolute Suite

(if you aren’t already doing so!).

If you are a newcomer, we are thrilled to

welcome you on board our Absolute Suite!

Your Absolute Stream is an audiophile music server; it was designed from the ground up to

offer superlative sound, surpassing the sonics of the best commercially available streamers.

To achieve this, we equipped the Absolute Stream circuit with several audiophile features,

components, and proprietary circuits:

• Proprietary re-clocking platform: it uses

a hi-quality femto clock and is fully

upgradable;

• Seriously over-engineered power supply:

◊ Proprietary, ultra-low esr, special

bypasspowerlterimproving

the transient current for the CPU

(spectacular sound improvement!)

◊ Huge main caps using low esr,

audiophile silk capacitors

◊ hand-made audiophile transformer

◊ Proprietary,“no-noise”,rectication

active bridge topology which

eliminates noise from diodes

• Short signal paths without wiring

• Audiophile design & solid aluminium

construction

• Simplied,bare-bonesoperationavoids

internal noise-inducing circuits

The Absolute StreamisrstdeviceintheAbsoluteSuite,thesuperlativeaudiophiledigital

front end comprising the Absolute Stream, the Absolute Time, and the Absolute (DAC).

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Connecting

absolute stream music server

audio ports

LAN HD1 HD2

handcrafted in

Athens, Greece

On/Off button

Out to DAC LAN connection

USB Hard Disks (music)

Stand by led

Setting up your Absolute Stream is simple, using it is even simpler.

Hardware

Please make the connections below in the

order presented. Power cable connected in

the end.

Signal inputs: in the middle of the back

plate you will see three (3) inputs marked

LAN, HD1, HD2. Please connect your

network’s LAN cable to the corresponding

input.

If you have libraries stored on USB external

discs, please connect to HD1, HD2 as

applicable. You can use a NAS as well.

On the left side on the back plate you will see two USB “audio out” connections which

connect to the DAC:

• On the right you have signal with 5V bus

• On the left is pure signal; unless your

DAC needs 5V supply, this is by far the

recommended output

The output connects to your DAC. We recommend you use good quality USB cable.

For Ideon owners, the output connects to the signal re-clocker (absolute Time, Master Time, 3R).

Finally, connect the power cord to the IEC input on the right side of the back plate. Ensure it

is safely inserted in the right. Press the knob to switching the device to stand-by mode.

Due to continuous research, Ideon Audio reserves the right to change specications without notice.

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Important Notice

ΤheAbsoluteStream,aboveallisahighlysophisticatedrendererwhichyoucanusewithanymusic

player program (client) that supports UPNP (most of the well-known commercial of freeware do

that), such as Roon, JRiver, Audiorvana, Foobar, and similar. The rendering of music is done with the

highest standards of our designs and we make sure it is happening in the server, so no loss of sound

quality is possible!

Important Notice

Yourmusiclesneedtocontaintherightmetadata.Thereisaminimumofdatathatmustbein

thelesothesystemcanrecognize,nd,,display,andprovideinformationrelatingtoanyle–

at the very least, a proper title, artist and album name. The more metadata you have the better,

butifyourtrackslacktheminimumrequireddatainordertoberead,thentheseleswon’tbe

searchable and won’t appear in any search or indexing process. They will be in your database, but

the system will not be able to retrieve them!

Additionally, we provide a music player program along with the device, providing all the

functionality of such a program. You can experiment with this music player program or,

alternatively, use the one that you prefer and around which you have built your music library.

Press the power button on the front plate (off center left) to power up the Absolute Stream.

You are now ready to connect!

• Connect to your router, go to “network”, then “LAN”;

• On the screen you will see all the connected devices in your network including Ideon,

and their associated IP addresses.

• Note and copy the IP address your router has assigned to ideon (it should look like

192.168.X.Y)

NowyouneedtochooseadevicetocontrolyourIdeonstreamer–tablet,laptop,phone,

etc. Any device with a browser will do. We designed the application this way for simplicity

and ease of use.

Open the device browser, type in the IP address your router assigned to Ideon, and press

enter. This will launch the Ideon Audio application

Absolute Stream: rendering your music.

Your Music’s metadata

Software – GUI

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Invest a moment to carefully complete the settings, they only need to be done once!

Aseriesofdialogueboxeswillappear,therstbeinglanguage&skincolorchoice.

The next screen is “Your NAS settings”, important if your music is in a NAS STORAGE!

• Select type:

◊ select “samba A” if a guest (such as a friend) is accessing your NAS or your accessing

a NAS without credentials

◊ select “samba B” if you are accessing a NAS with credentials (username & password)

• NAS IP address: enter your NAS IP address or its name

• Path: enter the NAS path to your music

• Username / password (only applicable if you have selected “samba B”): enter the

appropriate your credentials

• Press next

The following screen is Operating Info. We recommend you save the information in this

screen for future reference.

Clicking submitcompletestherstpartoftheset-up!

Settings

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Clicking on Submit takes you to the “Playing now” screen. This is the application’s main

screen for playing music.

It’s time to CREATE your MUSIC library! Follow the following simple steps:

Click on Ideon Audio app main menu icon (“main menu”) on the top left of your screen.

From the drop-down menu select: Create/Update library and then Update library. The app

will start indexing your library. Please wait until the indexing is complete.

Click on “close” and you are ready to go!

Now the playing screen will look like this:

The left half is the playing window (i.e. what is playing at any time) while the right side

containsalbumsofyourlibrary.Therst100willappear.ThedefaultsortingisAlbumArtist.

Youcan,ofcourse,optforadifferentsortingusingtheicontotherightofthesearcheld.

Top right shows your library metrics (tracks, time, etc)

The screen bottom has the app’s four basic functions:

• Playing now (i.e. what is playing, from

whichle,album,artist,etc)

• Queue (i.e. what you have selected to listen

to–youcansavethisasa“playinglist”)

• Library (your music library portrayed as a

databaseorasalesystem)

• Search (self-explanatory; using keywords

and any parameter)

Create your music library and play music.

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We are at the Playing now screen (see upper left). This can be selected from the main bar of

the application at the bottom of the screen. This, along with the Queue option will be your

main screens, depending on how you want to play music.

Clicking on the album of your choice (right side) the album will expand to reveal the tracks.

Click on a track for instant play.

On the left side you will see the artwork (if available) of the track being played as well as

relevant information. A pause/play control and progress bar appear below the artwork.

The four tracks that follow what is currently playing, “Next in queue”, are also listed below.

(The list is empty if there are none.)

Clicking on any of the listed tracks, immediately loads it to the player, replacing the current

one.

The player’s main controls are top bar right (i.e. previous, stop, pause/play, next, output

volume).

Expanding an album

Clicking on a folder artwork (i.e. an album) immediately reveals its tracks.

Playing Now (how to play music)

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Clicking on the album title opens four options:

Expandthealbum.Clickingontheminimenuontherightsideofeachtrackopensve

options:

Selecting and playing specic tracks

Play album: immediately loads and plays the

album

Add to queue: adds all of the chosen

album’s tracks to the end of the current

queue.

Replace queue: erases the current queue

and replaces its contents with all the tracks

from the current album

Add to playlist: choose a playlist -- or create

a new one -- to which all contents of the

current album are added

Play: as stated

Add to queue: add the track to the end of

the current queue

Add after current playing song: will play

selected track after the current one is

complete

Replace queue: erases the current queue

and replaces its contents with the selected

track

Add to playlist: choose a playlist -- or create

a new one -- to which the selected track will

be added

Song details:revealsdataaboutthespecic

track (provided there are data attached to

the chosen track)

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Ontherightsideofthescreenyouwillndthesearch bar and the sorting button

Search: enter any key word in the search bar; the search function will display all the artwork

containing your key word (or characters). Clicking on the magnifying glass allows you to

focusthesearch–oursuggestionistousealbumartist

Sorting menu:youwillndthisimmediatelyfollowingthesearchbar.Thismenucontrolshow

you wish to sort your albums. Again, our suggestion is albumartist

Clicking on the gear icon in the upper middle of the screen allows you to choose track

information on the track being played. This information appears on the left pane below the

track title (pic).

To the left of this gear, you have the thumbs up & thumbs down buttons, as well as the “+add

to playlist” button.

View: the button of the far right (two arrows) is a toggle switch alternating between

thumbnails and list view for your albums

Searching and Sorting Your Albums

Left Pane – Playing Now – the Information Icon

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You are at the Queue screen (see upper left). This can be selected from the main bar of the

application at the bottom of the screen. Here you can see all the tracks that have been

selected to be played in queue. Remember that when browsing tracks or albums you always

have the choice to add them to your Queue.

At the upper left of the screen you have two options. The default is the Queue, where you

see all tracks of the current Queue.

At the right side of the screen you see the number of tracks and total playing time of the

current Queue.

By clicking on Last Played, you see the most recently played tracks

The track currently playing is highlighted; duration and remaining time are also visible

You can play instantly any track in the Queue by just clicking on it.

For every track on the Queue there is a menu icon (three parallel lines) at the far right of the

track’s line.

Queue (your listening tracks queue)

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