Quad Platina Stream
Music Streamer

Representing QUAD’s foray into the high-end wireless music streaming domain, the PLATINA STREAM combines an authoritative hi-fi design philosophy with an ultra-stable, extremely versatile streaming platform. Whether hard-wired via Gigabit Ethernet or connected over dual-band Wi-Fi (2.4/5 GHz), the PLATINA STREAM ensures fast, reliable network performance for uninterrupted, bit-perfect playback. At the core of its intelligent streaming platform lies the intuitive QUAD PLATINA app, offering seamless access to leading music services including Spotify, Tidal, Qobuz, and TuneIn Radio, with high-resolution album artwork visualisation.

With user-customisable functions and settings, the PLATINA app offers the ability to build an on-the-fly playlist and save it permanently with a single gesture. The user can create playlists or folders to keep expansive catalogues organised and even collate multi-disc box-sets, remasters, or themed compilations into a single location for uncluttered browsing. Long-press on any track, album, or artist, and a context menu appears: add to playlist, queue next, play now, replace queue, and more.

Unlike many third-party front-ends, the QUAD app maintains native highlighting of Qobuz Studio / Sublime+ and Tidal Masters tiers with icons to indicate the provenance of such files, so one glance confirms you are hearing the highest-resolution version available.

Together, these technologies enable listeners to enjoy the best of both worlds from a single audiophile-centric device: the superior fidelity and build quality expected of QUAD, combined with the convenience, control, and ecosystem integration of today’s leading streaming platforms. Few music streaming components offer this level of functionality alongside such high performance. The QUAD PLATINA STREAM is also Roon Ready, appearing as a certified endpoint for multi-room or reference systems governed by Roon’s celebrated interface.

Roon Ready devices are network players with Roon’s own streaming technology built right in, connected over your ethernet or WiFi network. These devices make bit-perfect high-resolution audio simple because they require no configuration, they give you access to the best audio quality and they provide stable, reliable playback.

The Connections

Thanks to its high-performance onboard digital-to-analogue stage, the stability and quality of the signal path are preserved with balanced XLR and RCA analogue output options. Coupled with the choice of optical and coaxial outputs, this maintains the flexibility for integration into wider audiophile systems.

The Conclusion

The PLATINA STREAM is the culmination of thousands of man-hours devoted to concept, industrial design and painstaking engineering refinement. It distils nearly nine decades of QUAD innovation into a single component that redefines what a wireless music streamer can achieve.

Every facet—from the substantial metal enclosure, machined heatsinks, gold-plated connectors and well-considered intuitive display, to the bespoke ESS Sabre implementation and user-friendly app—reflects an unwavering commitment to musical truth and empowering the user.