Swiss Precision
Meets Musical Engagement

The new Madison Streamer represents a streamlined evolution of Wattson Audio’s celebrated network player. With the retirement of the Classic and Lounge Edition models, the Madison line now converges into a single, unified design that preserves the performance and topology of the Madison Lounge Edition, while introducing refined exterior detailing. Internally, it remains identical to its predecessor—built around Wattson Audio’s proprietary streaming platform renowned for its natural, time-coherent musicality. Externally, the updated cosmetics and simplified model structure bring visual harmony to the Madison family while maintaining the precision, warmth, and expressive musical flow that have made it a benchmark in its category.

Designed with a singular focus on delivering extraordinary sound in its purest form, the Madison Streamer continues the legacy established by the acclaimed Lounge Edition. Its exceptionally low noise floor and robust output stage provide the authority and control needed to drive connected amplifiers with effortless precision. The result is a musical experience alive with dynamic contrast, tonal finesse, and emotional depth—qualities typically reserved for far larger and more costly components. True to Wattson Audio’s engineering philosophy, the Madison Streamer embodies a perfect balance of technical mastery and musical artistry, reaffirming the brand’s commitment to purity, precision, and performanc

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Seamless and Versatile Digital Connectivity

At the heart of the Madison Streamer is Wattson Audio’s proprietary streaming engine—developed in-house around the Texas Instruments Sitara processor and refined through years of continuous evolution. This custom platform ensures uncompromising signal integrity, outstanding reliability, and seamless support for high-resolution audio, including native PCM and DSD. The result is effortless performance and a fluid, intuitive user experience.

Beyond streaming, the Madison offers a dedicated S/PDIF input section with 75Ω RCA and TOSLink optical connections for legacy digital sources. Its precision clocking architecture employs ultra–low-phase-noise oscillators for the 44.1 kHz and 48 kHz families, each independently filtered to minimize jitter and noise. A high-performance SHARC DSP drives Wattson’s proprietary upsampling and spline-filtering algorithms, optimized for exceptional time-domain accuracy. Dual WM8742 DACs—one per channel—ensure superior separation, spatial coherence, and tonal purity, preserving the integrity and emotional depth of the music.

At the heart of the Madison LE Streamer's network interface lies Wattson Audio’s renowned proprietary streaming engine. Built around the highly capable Sitara processor from Texas Instruments and powered by our own updatable software, this engine is a cornerstone of some of the most prestigious and high-performing audio products on the market. Designed to accommodate the growing array of network communication protocols, it has been meticulously refined and continuously updated since its inception. The result is uncompromising signal integrity, exceptional transmission reliability, and seamless support for Hi-Res audio formats, including native PCM and DSD playback, all while delivering a fluid, intuitive user experience.

Cutting-Edge Technology
Meets Swiss Precision

Wattson Audio’s commitment to build quality is evident in every detail of the Madison Streamer. Its precision-machined enclosure, milled from solid billet aluminum, reflects a design philosophy where engineering and aesthetics are inseparable. This approach—more demanding and costly than conventional methods—ensures exceptional structural integrity, superior mechanical damping, and optimal electromagnetic shielding. Each unit is built to perform flawlessly over time, embodying the durability, refinement, and quiet confidence that define Wattson Audio craftsmanship.

The Madison Streamer reflects Wattson Audio’s belief that great sound is born from balance—between technical precision and musical flow, between simplicity and sophistication. Every subsystem is optimized not in isolation, but as part of a coherent whole, ensuring that digital, analog, and power stages operate in perfect harmony. Its minimalist circuitry is meticulously tuned to minimize signal loss, reduce noise, and preserve dynamic integrity. The result is a product that feels both effortless and exacting—an instrument of musical truth shaped by experience, not excess.

Form, Function, Fidelity

The Madison Streamer represents Wattson Audio’s most complete expression of digital playback and control. Designed and engineered entirely in Switzerland by the same team behind CH Precision, it embodies a philosophy where technology serves musical emotion with effortless grace.

At its core lies a powerful DSP-based DAC architecture that merges advanced digital signal processing with a meticulously executed analog output stage. Supporting both network and S/PDIF digital sources, the Madison delivers balanced and single-ended outputs for seamless integration with any system—whether driving a power amplifier directly or partnering with a preamplifier or integrated design. The result is sound that combines precision and warmth, structure and soul—a compact yet uncompromising component that reveals music with striking realism and fluidity.

Refining the Volume Control

Developed in collaboration with CH Precision, Wattson’s new digital volume control was created specifically for the Madison platform. Replacing the former LEEDH implementation, it’s a fully in-house design shaped by a balanced process of mathematics, measurement, and critical listening. At its core, a 64-bit digital attenuator preserves even the smallest signal changes with absolute integrity. Operating in 0.5 dB steps verified to within ±0.1 dB, it maintains exceptional accuracy and linearity by minimizing truncation and rounding errors.

Existing Lounge Edition Madison Streamers will receive this new digital volume control via firmware update, ensuring every owner benefits from the same precision, refinement, and performance as the latest model.

Engineered for Musical Realism

At the heart of the Madison’s digital architecture lies the Wattson Spline filter—a proprietary algorithm derived from the same design principles used in our cost-no-object CH Precision siblings. Optimized for time-domain accuracy, it minimizes both pre- and post-ringing, preserving transient integrity and musical flow. While other manufacturers offer multiple selectable filters, Wattson perfected a single, purpose-built implementation—one that faithfully reproduces the timing and texture of real instruments.

The Madison supports PCM playback up to 32-bit/384 kHz and DSD up to 256x (11.2896 MHz) via network streaming, and PCM up to 24-bit/192 kHz through its S/PDIF input. These specifications aren’t about numbers for their own sake—they translate directly into smoother gradients, greater dynamic headroom, and a more lifelike rendering of musical space. Its refined power architecture employs premium-grade capacitors and enhanced supply capacitance to reduce noise and stabilize voltage for superior tonal balance and low-level detail.

Two Finishes, One Madison

For the first time, the Madison Streamer is offered in two distinct finishes: Light Gray and a new Dark Gray. This expanded palette reflects Wattson Audio’s commitment to precision and visual harmony, allowing the Madison to integrate seamlessly into a wider range of interiors. Light Gray recalls the elegance of the former Lounge Edition, while Dark Gray preserves the timeless purity of the original design. Both deliver the same exceptional performance and craftsmanship—now with a choice of aesthetic expression.

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Nothing Without Purpose

Delivering extraordinary musical performance in a compact, accessible form demands precision, discipline, and intent. The Madison Streamer embodies this philosophy—every element exists to serve the music, nothing more and nothing less. Its design reflects Wattson Audio’s belief that true engineering excellence lies in focus: selecting only what enhances fidelity, executing every detail with purpose, and eliminating anything that does not. This clarity of vision transforms technology into an instrument of musical truth.

Equally important is Wattson Audio’s commitment to responsibility and longevity in design. The Madison Streamer is crafted from durable, sustainably sourced materials, chosen for their acoustic integrity and minimal environmental impact. Its precision-machined aluminum chassis is built to endure decades of use, both structurally and sonically. Complementing that physical endurance, the firmware platform is fully updatable and developed entirely in-house, allowing new features to be added quickly and efficiently—such as Wattson’s early implementation of Qobuz Connect. This combination of enduring construction and evolving software protects the owner’s investment while minimizing environmental waste—extending Wattson Audio’s philosophy of purity beyond sound, toward sustainability and permanence.

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Wattson Audio's Pinnacle of
Precision and Performance

The Madison Streamer is Wattson Audio’s definitive expression of digital playback and control. Designed and engineered entirely in-house, it combines a robust analog output stage with advanced DSP architecture—the foundation not only for its effortless musical precision and emotional depth, but also for continuous refinement over time. This flexible digital platform allows Wattson to implement meaningful performance upgrades, such as the new high-precision digital volume control, developed to enhance transparency, dynamic nuance, and musical realism. Supporting both network streaming and S/PDIF digital sources, the Madison offers balanced and single-ended outputs for seamless integration with power amplifiers, preamplifiers, or integrated systems. Compact, elegant, and uncompromising in performance, it embodies the essence of a modern high-end digital source—pure, precise, and profoundly musical.