Quad Platina Stream

Quad Platina Stream - Wireless Audio Streamer

Streaming today is serious business. We are not saying here at Audio Trends we only stream. We love to Stream, play CD's and especially throw on some vinyl tunes during the day. Maybe like us, you are intrigued to stream whatever song you want at the click of a button and here it in a lossless format! And that my friends, is what the Quad Platina Stream offers you.

Matching the bold design and substantial form of the flagship series, the Quad Platina Stream distils generations of Quad engineering into a network player designed for the modern listener. Platina Stream combines the brand’s renowned musical integrity with a clean, purposeful industrial aesthetic: a rigid metal chassis, side-mounted heat sinks, anti-resonance feet and an anodised fascia speak to Quad’s obsession with build quality. A single machined-aluminium knob and discreet function keys flank the crisp 4.3-inch IPS display, creating a digital streaming centre-piece that is both tactile and unmistakably Quad.

Ready For Future Streaming

From treasured playlists on Tidal or Qobuz to carefully archived DSD libraries, Platina Stream treats every source with equal reverence. Its flagship DAC architecture and ultra-stable platform deliver bit-perfect playback. Combined with its full-colour display and impeccable build quality, Platina marries Quad’s analogue heritage with reference modern listening.

Enjoy higher-fidelity streaming without changing the way you listen thanks to Tidal Connect, Qobuz Connect, Spotify Connect, AirPlay 2, Roon Ready, Plex, and UPnP servers with USB HDD support. It’s bit-perfect playback with the familiarity of your favourite streaming platforms.

QUAD Platina Streaming App

Building playlists is easy, as well as organising music folders. Search for your favourite performers, labels, or even genres across local and cloud-based drives and streaming services with Quad Platina streaming app (built atop the renowned LUMIN MUSIC Streaming service). And with native highlighting of Qobuz Studio/Sublime+ and Tidal Masters, you’ll know you’re hearing true HiRes at a glance. Perfectly created for both iOS and Adroid users alike.

Quad + Roon Ready

Together, these technologies enable listeners to enjoy the best of both worlds from a single audiophile-centric device: the superior fidelity and build quality expected of QUAD, combined with the convenience, control, and ecosystem integration of today’s leading streaming platforms. Few music streaming components offer this level of functionality alongside such high performance. The Quad Platina Stream is also Roon Ready, appearing as a certified endpoint for multi-room or reference systems governed by Roon’s celebrated interface.

Roon Ready devices are network players with Roon’s own streaming technology built right in, connected over your ethernet or WiFi network. These devices make bit-perfect high-resolution audio simple because they require no configuration, they give you access to the best audio quality and they provide stable, reliable playback.

The DAC

At its core lies the ESS Sabre ES9038PRO eight-channel DAC, driven by dual precision master clocks for vanishingly low jitter, class-leading linearity and support for PCM up to 768 kHz and native DSD512. A Quad Arm® Cortex-A53 multi-core processor running at 1.8 GHz per core provides the computational muscle for fast library handling, album-art caching and rock-solid playback control. This DAC matches the performance of the Quad Platina Integrated solution, for a seamless and precision-matched performance. However, by design the Platina Stream offers wider functionality with its digital and analogue outputs - it will slot straight into any audio system by way of a pure digital or high fidelity analogue output option.

Connections & Functions

Thanks to its high-performance onboard digital-to-analogue stage, the stability and quality of the signal path are preserved with balanced XLR and RCA analogue output options. Coupled with the choice of optical and coaxial outputs, this maintains the flexibility for integration into wider audiophile systems.

The 4.3 inch, 800×480 pixel IPS screen offers full menu navigation, multi-language support and real-time playback information. Choose between artwork-centred, data-rich or VU-meter displays—or dim the screen entirely for late-night sessions. A sculpted system handset mirrors the Platina design language and unifies command of every component in the range, while the front-panel encoder and included remote control provide precise, menu-driven control for swift parameter adjustment.

Why Choose The Quad Platina Stream?

Quad have stepped up a notch with the new Platina range. With years of research they have mastered such a fantastic streaming product. With the bonus of an app, you really can't go past this well built Streamer. It's stunning 4.3 inch screen, substantial metal enclosure, machined heatsinks and gold-plated connectors. See why the Quad Platina Stream is worthy of your consideration. Also, see how WhatHiFi have reviewed this new Streamer here.