“There’s a sense of musical expressiveness and passion that is so easily lost in the networked environment, and it is brought to the forefront here. That grey flatness of streamed music gives way to a physical ‘thereness’ of sound, usually the domain of a well-put-together disc-replay system.

The musicians play more cohesively and sound less like they are ‘phoning it in’. It really doesn’t matter whether you are playing Mahler, Miles Davis or Metallica; that feeling of being closer to the musicians, and of musicianship being more prevalent, comes across perfectly with JundoStream“.

“I’ve heard CD holdouts criticise networked audio, saying it sounds like the difference between the band and a tribute act. With Reiki Audio’s JundoStream as the last link in the chain, you’re sitting in front of the real deal once more”.

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