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my name is Scott marquel and we run Elite audio-video distribution out of Los Angeles and one of our main product lines is high resolution technologies a full line of modern external sound cards or DAX digital audio digital to analog converters for use with both Macintosh and Windows based pcs we also have a specialized version in the HRT line called the eye streamer that works exclusively with modern eye devices mainly with the advent of computer audio coming on so strong a lot of people are wanting to do away with playing physical medium and you know having to handle CDs and records and what particularly CDs and DVDs so figuring that most people have a preponderance of CDs in their music collection if it's digital stuff all the music streamers are made to do the same thing they work with the computer they intercept the digital stream and then they decode it into an analog music outboard of the computer in a much higher quality fashion than is what is built into the computers and the i-screamer does the same thing with the I devices with the exception that it's a slave only to the I devices made by Apple because they don't have USB buses and they just do things differently I mean we start out with the music streamer to which is about a hundred and eighty bucks and it has a high-quality Texas Instruments DAC chip in it and a high quality analog output section and it's a very good choice for people that have a smaller system or want to start with a more budget component but it offers actually very few compromises in terms of sound quality and most people that get it are completely amazed at how much better it sounds than their computer did and how how close it actually comes sometimes to a really nice CD player and then you can move up line and get the music streamer to Plus which is the same exact concept except that utilizes a higher quality DAC and a higher quality analog output section and cost three hundred fifty bucks and if you have a system that's a little bit better than say average you can easily hear the big differences better dynamics better frequency extremes more 3d effect that kind of thing and then we go to the top of the line well first let's stop at the at the micro streamer that's worth the mention that's one of our very newest products it's similar in concept I guess to the widely-recognized audioquest dragonfly we do it a little bit different and we don't make it exactly like a dongle that plugs directly into the computer it needs a short USB cable and then like the other streamers it gets its power from and is connected to the computer via the USB bus and it has two outputs one is an analog adjustable output for headphones and the other is a fixed level output for driving your preamp some people even use the analog output the headphone output and drive amps directly and a lot of times you can do that that's 190 bucks then we have the top-of-the-line music streamer HD which is brand-new in January and it's a four and $50 retail and it will actually pass up to 24 192 does 24 192 resolution if you have Audio 2.0 enabled on your computer Mac's that have Snow Leopard or above are compatible up to 192 Microsoft computers at this point or can pass a maximum of 24 96 because they don't have Audio 2.0 built-in don't know why but they don't the manufacturer is currently working on a custom driver which is apparently very labor intensive and expensive and he wants to get it to work right all the time once he has that then the HD will be able to pass 24 192 information over any Microsoft computer and then the i-screamer which again is specialized for AI devices actually has its own external power supply because there's no USB bus on any high devices they don't allow you to draw a power you know Apple doesn't let you draw power from them so we have a separate power supply it hooks up either with a 30 pin connector like Apple use for many years and will also work with the new lightning connector that's on the new Apple products like the iPhone 5 I guess and the iPad Mini and and things like that in very similar fashion they we get a chipset through Apple that allows us to intercept the digits take them outside and just you know make them into analog music and a much higher quality than what's built in to the actual AI devices because let's face it they've got wonderful interface beautiful graphics nice to use they didn't spend a lot of extra money on the the DAC that's built into the device