Streaming - Quad HiFi - Wharfedale Speakers
Streaming music has rapidly become a very popular choice for music lovers as part of a good sounding hi-fi system, thanks to huge improvements in streaming sound quality and the wealth of music available. The term "streaming" basically refers to the fact that you're playing music from a digital device stored elsewhere - be it your NAS drive (which can store your CD collection, high res files and other music), from online services (Tidal, Spotify, Apple Music, or the thousands of internet radio stations available), or from files stored your Mac or PC (iTunes or Media Player). Even if you have a large vinyl collections, you can "rip" these onto your Mac or PC for easy access at the touch of a button.
Quad quality is legendary in hi-fi and since 1936, Quad has been at the cutting edge of high-end audio. Today, Quad maintains the philosophy of their founder in their current range - to produce '...the closest approach to the original sound.'
The history of Quad is one of audio excellence. Since being established by Peter Walker, Quad has been at the very cutting edge of high-end audio winning acclaim and respect for our products around the world. Their range of solid-state amplifiers, valve amplifiers and electrostatic loudspeakers over time has become legendary among hi-fi enthusiasts.
Quad is particularly renowned for their superb quality amplifiers as well as being a leading innovator in the production of electrostatic loudspeakers. Today, Quad manufactures a range of amplifiers, hi-fi separates, electrostatic speakers and classic design loudspeakers which stay true to the company's origins, while remaining at the peak of technological advances.
Wharfedale has a history of over 75 years of setting standards in perfecting loudspeaker performance and are renowned for having the most integrated and thorough manufacturing and quality control process in the industry.
Their current range includes Reva, Denton, Diamond 11 and Diamond 200 series, D300 and vintage-look Heritage speakers as well as the newer bluetooth DS-2 speakers and Vista 200 subwoofer.
Among the many glowing reviews and coveted awards Wharfedale has garnered from noteable industry critics, the DX-2 series has won 5 stars from What Hi-Fi and "Home Cinema Best Buy" while Diamond 11s have won "HiFi Chouce Recommended", "HiFi News Outstanding Product", "Home Cinema Best Buy" and "AVTech Media Awards".
Every product and process in speaker design and manufacturing is handled in-house making it the most advanced research and development program, meaning that Wharfedale are able to design exactly to their own spec without limitation - and can exact this vision to perfection. Such design principles are evident in the finished product.
Wharfedale loudspeakers are so well regarded, above all, for their sonic excellence. Build quality is impeccable and design is focused - resulting in an overall product which is coherent and capable. Wharfedale are an industry leader and consistently produce award-winning and industry-renowned loudspeaker products.
Wharfedale has a 1.5m square foot dedicated manufacturing operation where every product and process occurs in-house resulting in the design of loudspeakers that form an acoustic engineer’s dream. Instead of using commercial components from a catalogue as many other ‘hi-fi’ manufacturers do, Wharfedale build each component from ground-up to attain harmony in audio reproduction and balance.
Streaming and Multi Room audio is the pinnacle of simplicity and innovation. Imagine enjoying the same track in every room as you move throughout your house, or changing what you are listening to from the comfort of your sofa via an app or smartphone/tablet.
We offer a range of NAS (Network Attached Storage) servers and devices, which allow you to rip and store even the largest of CD collections to one place, in high fidelity lossless audio quality. When connected to a streamer or multi room device, you can access an entire music library at your fingertips.
Our range of digital streamers and network players let you access your digitally stored tunes, and are designed with audio quality and hi-fi principles in mind, enabling you to modernise your hi-fi system and bring streaming to your hi-fi without worrying about any degradation of audio quality.
We also offer a range of wireless adaptors, enabling you to add wireless and Bluetooth functionality to an existing hi-fi or AV setup, and start enjoying wireless and streaming audio. As always, we are always happy to offer any advice or support you may need in selecting or trying a product.