Setups Audio

I have always loved sound, the search for the right vibration, the search for the product that will change everything.
We change speakers, amplifiers, speakers, amplifiers and too often we neglect the source.
The famous audiophile "quest" that the Anglo-Saxons would call in an almost pathological way "upgraditis"...

During this quest, I obviously switched from passive speakers to active speakers, in this case the Beolab 50, whose particularity is to free itself from the acoustic constraints of the room by controlling the diffusion of the sound (beam) towards the listening area while cancelling the rear and lateral resonances.
Nevertheless, my room is treated, acoustic panels, walls, and ceiling... in short you understood it I am a "control freak"...

To such an extent that we end up listening to our system instead of listening to the music... The speakers allow us to work on the voicing... So, we add a little more level at 60Hz, we decrease it at 3 kHz, and in the end, we forget about the music.
You end up with a very straight, clean, and lifeless system. A dematerialized music that I would describe as devitalized...

Confidence in the product based on recommendations.

I was looking for a steamer that could significantly improve the sound quality of my installation and should be compact and very intuitive in its operation.

I discovered Wattson on the Hifi Forum (Independent Hifi and Audiophile Forum). Having already owned a good dozen different streamers, I bought my Emerson DIGITAL for my main system. When I heard the result, I immediately looked for a second-hand one for my secondary system, so much I liked the result!

The sound, the stability of the app and the simplicity of the whole thing.

A few months ago, I finally decided to catch up with the 21st century and add a streamer to my audio system. My thought at the time was that I would use streaming primarily for background listening and discovering new music. But once I discovered the joys of being able to conjure up almost any album instantaneously, I knew that I had to find something significantly better than the basic streamer I had initially purchased.

I was looking for a streamer with a high quality converter that does not get too hot so that I can listen to new releases and music during summer without getting too hot.

I was mainly interested in streaming with TIDAL.

Using a R2R 16/44 NOS DAC, my wish was to have a "bit perfect" steamer for dematerialization use in parallel with a CD player.

I read about the Emerson DIGITAL on Fairaudio, and thought that the ANALOG would actually tick more of my boxes, seeing that I suspected the built in DAC of my AVM integrated as a bottleneck for the sound for some time. I went on the Wattson Audio website, and it happened to be on time for the 2021 Christmas give away... And now I have the first Emerson in New Zealand!

I have been looking for a device to connect to my system to enjoy digital music for a while. A quality product without a high price tag. My installation is pure old fashioned analogue, with pre-amp and tube amp.

A lot of pleasure and emotions with the integration of the Wattson Audio Emerson DIGITAL player.
Technical and electronic quality of the components.