![]() The DSS is completely software controlled. It is UPnP, DNLA, and Apple Airplay certified, as well as being Roon Ready. In layman’s terms, this streamer can be controlled by your media software of choice. Métronome recommends the mConnect app, a common and affordable streaming app available on a variety of devices. The DSS plays up to PCM 192/24 and DSD64, which in all honesty is all 99% of what streaming users will ever need. It is also fully MQA compatible if you have a DAC with similar capabilities. So, with a striking but minimalist front face, how do we actually use this magic box? No USB output however, a deliberate choice by Métronome as they suggest the connection type has sound compromising limitations. Not a huge concern for most, as I doubt anyone is going to be using the DSS with a $99 desktop USB DAC. Also on the rear is an IEC power cable socket situated below the units power switch, and an added USB port for servicing. The rear, of course, has a little bit more utility, with two USB and one LAN network inputs and a plethora of digital outputs including AES/IBU, Toslink, I2S/HDMI, and S/PDIF Coaxial to connect to your DAC of choice. ![]() This is Métronome’s newest digital front-end device, the DSS (for Digital Sharing Streamer) coming in at a retail price of $4200. The high end French company is no stranger to me or readers of this magazine, having reviewed both their Le DAC and Le Player 3 CD Transport units, the latter of which was one of the best digital sources I have ever heard. The DSS is the smallest and most economical of their three digital sharing units. It contains no DAC, no touch screen, and no front face controls. Instead, we are treated to a minimalist front face of modernist rectangles that bears an uncanny resemblance to the Notre Dame de La Salette church I would walk by on my way to the grocery store back when I lived in Montreal. Perhaps, a further unsubtle cue to do something about the mess of CDs and hard drives strewn about my small apartment. But, before we Marie Kondo our beloved digital artifacts, we have to ask: does this little box spark joy? Send us feedback.Whether we want to admit it or not, streaming has grown up. The libraries of high resolution digital files out there in the ether are growing. Red Book CD-quality streaming, once the domain of niche services, is now being rolled out as the universal minimum among almost all mainstream providers. The once clunky digital electronics needed to maintain a home ecosystem of files and internet music servers are becoming smaller, more well integrated, and are sounding better and better. To further drive home the point, this spring a small box from Métronome Technologie arrived on my doorstep. These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'metronome.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Jordan Riefe, Los Angeles Times, 6 Nov. Dallas News, That world includes a metronome in the living room that wakes her in the middle of the night, and a hum from the refrigerator that sends her searching through the dark for its source. 2022 Beethoven used the then-new metronome to set down beat-per-minute timings of his symphonies. 2023 Adding to that, Hader (who, in reality suffered from debilitating stage fright on the show) was every bit the glue Hartman was, his precise and steady comic rhythm and timing the unwavering metronome that sketch after sketch played along to. 2021 Now the pace of the film accelerates like a broken metronome clacking ever faster. Holly Barker, Discover Magazine, 23 Sep. ![]() ![]() Dallas News, 29 July 2022 Pavlov trained dogs to associate the sight of food with the sound of a metronome. 2023 Players worked on fundamentals - body form, posture and technique - to the beat of a metronome. ![]() 2023 In adulthood, Tamariz pursued his vocation with monastic focus, not only fine-tuning his technique - at times to the accompaniment of a metronome - but studying philosophy and art history for application to his developing ideas. Sebastian Smee, Washington Post, 14 Feb. Recent Examples on the Web The biggest diagonal, evoking a curtain pulled back from the window, creates a triangle that echoes the metronome and the left side of the boy’s face. ![]()
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