Bringing music to life.

Engineered as one.

audibleDNA is designed and developed by a single audio engineering team. The streaming layer, the system core, the optional amplification layer, and the customer-facing cloud share semantics, transport rules, configuration, and integration work with third-party streaming services, because they were built together.

Partners license the layers they need. Source switching, bit-perfect transport, and the certification integrations behave the same whether a partner adopts the full platform or a single module.

Core

audibleDNA Core.

The system layer. It sets the rules the rest of the platform runs on, from transport and clocking to decoding and source management, and pre-integrates third-party streaming services, so the layers around it can depend on it. The Core is the platform’s contract: bits stay bit-perfect, sources hand off cleanly, authenticated content stays authenticated, and a firmware update never breaks any of it.

Module

Renderer Module.

The streaming layer, packaged for OEM integration. A turnkey, licensable network audio rendering module: the complete streaming software stack, ready to integrate into a DAC, amplifier, or all-in-one product. The lowest barrier to entry on the platform.

Adding network audio to a hardware product is mostly a software problem. The engineering work is in making streaming services, decoders, certifications, and the DAC behave consistently together, through every firmware update over a product’s lifetime. The Renderer Module solves that problem once.

What is in the module

• Network audio streaming: Roon Tested integration, UPnP-based streaming, Qobuz Connect. Additional streaming services available under licence.
• MQA full decoding: built-in authenticated MQA decoder for bit-perfect playback of MQA content from any source.
• Hardware abstraction: DAC control, volume management, source switching, and metadata integration with the host product’s audio hardware.
• Branded web UI: configuration, status, and source selection. Themeable to the partner’s brand.
• Signed OTA updates: delivered over the network with dual-boot safety, integrated with the portal (see below).

Amplification

PowerDAC by audibleHQ.

The amplification layer. An open-loop digital power amplifier technology that converts digital audio directly to analogue power at the speaker terminals. It uses power-supply modulation to deliver true analogue volume control, without the compromises of conventional digital amplification.

PowerDAC is the platform’s reference amplifier technology, licensable to partners building flagship products where amplifier performance is the differentiator. Integrates cleanly with the audibleDNA Core: source switching, volume, and metadata flow through the same platform semantics as everything else.

Cloud

The Portal.

Every audibleDNA-based product connects to an audibleHQ-operated portal: end users register their device, partners observe their installed fleet, and firmware updates are delivered over the air. Partners get a fully operational cloud back-end without building one.

Streaming, decoding, control.

The platform supports the streaming services and protocols audiophile customers expect, with bit-perfect delivery enforced at every stage.

• Roon Tested: audibleDNA products are tested for compatibility with Roon software. Sample rates, formats, and source-switching behaviour are validated by Roon Labs.
• Qobuz Connect: native integration as a Qobuz-compatible renderer. Stream directly from the Qobuz app at full Hi-Res resolution.
• MQA full decoding: authenticated MQA playback through the built-in renderer. No external decoder required.
• UPnP: standards-based network audio streaming and control.
• Additional protocols: comprehensive support for major mobile and desktop streaming platforms is available to OEM partners under licence.

Roon is a trademark of Roon Labs LLC. Qobuz and Qobuz Connect are trademarks of Xandrie SA. MQA is a trademark of MQA Limited. Audirvāna and the Plays with Audirvāna logo are trademarks of Audirvāna SAS. JPLAY and JPLAY FEMTO are trademarks of JPLAY. UPnP is a trademark of the Open Connectivity Foundation. See our Trademarks and Attributions page for full details.

One signal path, two philosophies.

audibleDNA can run bit-perfect or actively processed. The product designer chooses, per device.

• Codec support: FLAC, ALAC, WAV and AIFF, MP3 and AAC, plus native DSD (DSF/DFF) and full MQA decoding.
• Sample-rate conversion when it’s needed: the pipeline resamples to match a DAC’s supported rates or the DSP chain’s working rate, and stays out of the way entirely in the bit-perfect path.
• Flexible DSD handling: passed bit-perfect over DoP to a native-DSD DAC, or converted to PCM on the fly (dsd2pcm) where the DAC is PCM-only or DSP is in the path.

Maximum resolution, minimal silicon.

audibleDNA asks little of the hardware it runs on. The full audio path can run on a single 500 MHz ARM Cortex-A-class core: PCM to 768 kHz, bit-perfect DSD256 over DoP, and full MQA decoding to 384 kHz. That is the floor, not the target. Partners can specify more capable hardware wherever a product calls for it.

For an OEM, the appeal is practical: the renderer in the entry product is the renderer in the flagship. The hard engineering, networked audio and decoding, is done once and shared across the range, so a partner puts its own effort into the DAC and analogue design instead. The part is cheap and identical across the catalogue, so there is only one thing to support.

For OEM integrators.

Partners license at the layer that matches their product. Renderer Module alone for a streamer-DAC; the Core for a full system; PowerDAC on top for a flagship amplifier. The cloud portal is included with every layer.

A typical engagement is structured as discrete work packages: product branding, embedded operating system build, DAC hardware integration, streaming service certification, field-update tooling. Each has a scoped effort and a risk assessment. Partners see the full quote before signing, including dependencies, assumptions, and exclusions.