Flagship Cocktail Audio Network Music Player
The N25 is a highly advanced Network Audio Player, featuring a Sabre32 Reference DAC chip and high-performance Dual Core ARM Cortex A9 processor, running at 1.0Ghz. It has been designed to meet the requirements of digital music playback, keeping pace with today’s digital world. The N25 is based on long proven Cocktail Audio technologies, such as the hardware circuit design and versatile custom-designed software, developed by an in-house R&D team, to achieve the best audio performance and ease of use.
It offers high-quality playback from local USB storage, home network sources like NAS, major online streaming services, internet radio, DAB+/FM radio, aptX HD Bluetooth, Spotify Connect, Airplay for iOS devices and much more. Optionally, the N25 provides Bluetooth transmission, allowing playback of music from the N25 via Bluetooth headphones or speakers. It also supports playback covering a huge variety of audio formats including, DSD, MQA, DXD, HD FLAC, HD WAV, CAF, ALAC, AIFF, and more.
Additionally, for use as a complete and convenient music system throughout the home, the N25 provides not only a Multiroom Function (Group Play), carefully developed by the Cocktail Audio team over several years, but also a HDMI ARC input to connect with TVs.
When paired with optional extras, you can expand its functionality as a music server, aptX Bluetooth transmitter, and more.
High Performance System, With Custom-Designed Software
Based on a dual core ARM Cortex A9 processor, running at 1.0Ghz, selected components, and proven Cocktail Audio software, the N25 meets all the requirements for digital music playback. It is built with premium components, such as the audiophile ES9018K2M DAC chips, as well as featuring enhanced hardware circuit design technologies, such as a clean power supply path through the use of separate digital and analogue parts, as a simplification of the signal circuit path. This results in the delivery of clear and transparent sound.
Sabre32 Reference DAC and High Connectivity
Because the N25 is built based on the Sabre32 reference DAC, ES9018K2M, it can be used as an audiophile DAC with a wide dynamic range and low distortion when connected to compact disc players or any other digital audio source.
The N25 has high connectivity by offering digital inputs (coaxial / Toslink), HDMI ARC in, 3x USB host ports, digital outputs (coaxial / Toslink), analog output, USB audio input / output, HDMI output, GigaFast Ethernet LAN, etc.
Major Music Streaming Services Integrated
Stream music from tens of thousands of internet radio stations, Spotify Connect, Amazon Music, TIDAL, Deezer, Napster, Qobuz, HighResAudio. The N25 supports most existing music file formats, such as MQA, DSD(64 / 128 / 256), DXD (24Bit / 352.8Khz), PCM, 24Bit / 192Khz WAV / FLAC, AAC, CAF, ALAC, AIFF, AIF, MP3, APE/CUE, Ogg, M3U, PLS, and more.
Convert existing audio files into other formats, (e.g. mp3, FLAC, WAV, MP4) for use on other devices - digital audio player, smart phone, car stereo, etc.
Versatile Networking and App Control
Connect the N25 to your network for streaming music to and from other devices such as NAS drives, shared folders on PCs and control it all remotely via MusicX NEO. The N25 also supports various network protocols including UPnP Server / Client / Renderer, Samba Server / Client , etc.
Clever and Convenient Functions with Music Database
The N25 has an intuitive and powerful music database built-in, which offers simple and convenient functions to manage music collections, such as SEARCH, list views by text or cover art, SORT, and various view types (for example, by album or artist). Switch between album or song lists, displayed with text or cover art, with one press of the remote control.
Connect your own external USB storage device to the N25 to store large amounts of music files. The N25 will scan all music files stored in the USB storage, and will build the music database from the scanned metadata only without transferring the music files themselves. You can change or enter information about each album, track, or recording for easy browsing. Use a USB keyboard to edit song tag information easily.
Other features include creating and playing back your own play lists and setting the N25 to ignore gaps between tracks for gapless playback.
