![]() At its most basic level, it’s a computer made up of hardware and software whose only task is to receive a digital audio stream from a nearby server or the cloud via Ethernet or Wifi and pass it on to its own internal DAC – or an external DAC via USB. The software that we install onto our PC or Mac allows us to interface with the hardware: a keyboard and mouse allow us to tell the computer what to do a screen outputs visual feedback.Īnd its through the screen that we get to ‘see’ the operating system – usually Windows, MacOS or Linux – and any other applications we might have installed: MS Word, Adobe Photoshop or VLC.Ī network streamer is not too dissimilar to a PC or Mac. We can see the hardware if we pop the lid and take a peek inside: the CPU, the RAM, the storage (SSD or HDD) and the inputs/outputs (I/O). An Apple Macbook or Windows-based PC is made up of two fundamentals: the hardware and the software that runs on the hardware. The following demonstrates the process in Ocenaudio.IT 101. ![]()
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