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Swiss Precision Meets Musical Engagement
The new Madison Streamer represents a streamlined evolution of Wattson Audio’s celebrated network player. With the retirement of the Classic and Lounge Edition models, the Madison line now converges into a single, unified design that preserves the performance and topology of the Madison Lounge Edition, while introducing refined exterior detailing. Internally, it remains identical to its predecessor—built around Wattson Audio’s proprietary streaming platform renowned for its natural, time-coherent musicality. Externally, the updated cosmetics and simplified model structure bring visual harmony to the Madison family while maintaining the precision, warmth, and expressive musical flow that have made it a benchmark in its category.
Designed with a singular focus on delivering extraordinary sound in its purest form, the Madison Streamer continues the legacy established by the acclaimed Lounge Edition. Its exceptionally low noise floor and robust output stage provide the authority and control needed to drive connected amplifiers with effortless precision. The result is a musical experience alive with dynamic contrast, tonal finesse, and emotional depth—qualities typically reserved for far larger and more costly components. True to Wattson Audio’s engineering philosophy, the Madison Streamer embodies a perfect balance of technical mastery and musical artistry, reaffirming the brand’s commitment to purity, precision, and performance.
Wattson Audio's Pinnacle of Precision and Performance
The Madison Streamer is Wattson Audio’s definitive expression of digital playback and control. Designed and engineered entirely in-house, it combines a robust analog output stage with advanced DSP architecture—the foundation not only for its effortless musical precision and emotional depth, but also for continuous refinement over time. This flexible digital platform allows Wattson to implement meaningful performance upgrades, such as the new high-precision digital volume control, developed to enhance transparency, dynamic nuance, and musical realism. Supporting both network streaming and S/PDIF digital sources, the Madison offers balanced and single-ended outputs for seamless integration with power amplifiers, preamplifiers, or integrated systems. Compact, elegant, and uncompromising in performance, it embodies the essence of a modern high-end digital source—pure, precise, and profoundly musical.
The Madison Streamer reflects Wattson Audio’s belief that great sound is born from balance—between technical precision and musical flow, between simplicity and sophistication. Every subsystem is optimized not in isolation, but as part of a coherent whole, ensuring that digital, analog, and power stages operate in perfect harmony. Its minimalist circuitry is meticulously tuned to minimize signal loss, reduce noise, and preserve dynamic integrity. The result is a product that feels both effortless and exacting—an instrument of musical truth shaped by experience, not excess.
The Madison’s refined power architecture is engineered to support this level of resolution at every operating condition. Premium-grade capacitors and increased supply capacitance lower noise and stabilize voltage under dynamic load, preventing compression and tonal drift as musical demands change. The result is a stable, low-noise foundation that preserves tonal balance while allowing microdynamics and ambient detail to emerge naturally, without hardness or exaggeration.
High-Resolution Playback, Properly Applied
The Madison supports PCM playback up to 32-bit/384 kHz and DSD up to 256× (11.2896 MHz) via network streaming, along with PCM up to 24-bit/192 kHz through its S/PDIF input. These capabilities are not about maximizing numbers, but about preserving information during digital reconstruction. Increased bit depth allows finer amplitude resolution, lowering the audibility of quantization effects and preserving low-level detail that defines texture, space, and decay.
Higher sampling rates enable gentler interpolation and more accurate time-domain behavior, reducing temporal blur around transients and allowing musical events to unfold with greater continuity. The cumulative effect is not exaggerated detail, but a more natural sense of scale, flow, and dimensional realism—particularly evident in complex passages and acoustic recordings.
Engineered for Musical Realism
At the heart of the Madison’s digital architecture lies the Wattson Spline filter—a proprietary upsampling algorithm derived from the same time-domain design philosophy used in our cost-no-object CH Precision siblings. Rather than prioritizing abstract frequency-domain ideals, the Spline filter is optimized for temporal accuracy, where musical coherence actually lives.
By carefully shaping its impulse response, the filter minimizes both pre- and post-ringing—avoiding the time smear and false leading energy that can compromise transient realism and rhythmic integrity. Instead of offering multiple selectable filters, each representing a different set of compromises, Wattson refined a single, purpose-built solution focused on preserving the timing, texture, and natural flow of real instruments.
Refining the Volume Control
Developed in collaboration with CH Precision, Wattson’s new digital volume control was created specifically for the Madison platform. Replacing the former LEEDH implementation, it’s a fully in-house design shaped by a balanced process of mathematics, measurement, and critical listening. At its core, a 64-bit digital attenuator preserves even the smallest signal changes with absolute integrity. Operating in 0.5 dB steps verified to within ±0.1 dB, it maintains exceptional accuracy and linearity by minimizing truncation and rounding errors.
Existing Lounge Edition Madison Streamers will receive this new digital volume control via firmware update, ensuring every owner benefits from the same precision, refinement, and performance as the latest model.
Form, Function, Fidelity
The Madison Streamer represents Wattson Audio’s most complete expression of digital playback and control. Designed and engineered entirely in Switzerland by the same team behind CH Precision, it embodies a philosophy where technology serves musical emotion with effortless grace.
At its core lies a powerful DSP-based DAC architecture that merges advanced digital signal processing with a meticulously executed analog output stage. Supporting both network and S/PDIF digital sources, the Madison delivers balanced and single-ended outputs for seamless integration with any system—whether driving a power amplifier directly or partnering with a preamplifier or integrated design. The result is sound that combines precision and warmth, structure and soul—a compact yet uncompromising component that reveals music with striking realism and fluidity.
Two Finishes, One Madison
For the first time, the Madison Streamer is offered in two distinct finishes: Light Gray and a new Dark Gray. This expanded palette reflects Wattson Audio’s commitment to precision and visual harmony, allowing the Madison to integrate seamlessly into a wider range of interiors. Light Gray recalls the elegance of the former Lounge Edition, while Dark Gray preserves the timeless purity of the original design. Both deliver the same exceptional performance and craftsmanship—now with a choice of aesthetic expression.
Nothing Without Purpose
Delivering extraordinary musical performance in a compact, accessible form demands precision, discipline, and intent. The Madison Streamer embodies this philosophy—every element exists to serve the music, nothing more and nothing less. Its design reflects Wattson Audio’s belief that true engineering excellence lies in focus: selecting only what enhances fidelity, executing every detail with purpose, and eliminating anything that does not. This clarity of vision transforms technology into an instrument of musical truth.
Equally important is Wattson Audio’s commitment to responsibility and longevity in design. The Madison Streamer is crafted from durable, sustainably sourced materials, chosen for their acoustic integrity and minimal environmental impact. Its precision-machined aluminum chassis is built to endure decades of use, both structurally and sonically. Complementing that physical endurance, the firmware platform is fully updatable and developed entirely in-house, allowing new features to be added quickly and efficiently—such as Wattson’s early implementation of Qobuz Connect. This combination of enduring construction and evolving software protects the owner’s investment while minimizing environmental waste—extending Wattson Audio’s philosophy of purity beyond sound, toward sustainability and permanence.
Cutting-Edge Technology Meets Swiss Precision
Wattson Audio’s commitment to build quality is evident in every detail of the Madison Streamer. Its precision-machined enclosure, milled from solid billet aluminum, reflects a design philosophy where engineering and aesthetics are inseparable. This approach—more demanding and costly than conventional methods—ensures exceptional structural integrity, superior mechanical damping, and optimal electromagnetic shielding. Each unit is built to perform flawlessly over time, embodying the durability, refinement, and quiet confidence that define Wattson Audio craftsmanship.
Seamless and Versatile Digital Connectivity
At the heart of the Madison Streamer is Wattson Audio’s proprietary streaming engine—developed in-house around the Texas Instruments Sitara processor and refined through years of continuous evolution. This custom platform ensures uncompromising signal integrity, outstanding reliability, and seamless support for high-resolution audio, including native PCM and DSD. The result is effortless performance and a fluid, intuitive user experience.
Beyond streaming, the Madison offers a dedicated S/PDIF input section with 75Ω RCA and TOSLink optical connections for legacy digital sources. Its precision clocking architecture employs ultra–low-phase-noise oscillators for the 44.1 kHz and 48 kHz families, each independently filtered to minimize jitter and noise. A high-performance SHARC DSP drives Wattson’s proprietary upsampling and spline-filtering algorithms, optimized for exceptional time-domain accuracy. Dual WM8742 DACs—one per channel—ensure superior separation, spatial coherence, and tonal purity, preserving the integrity and emotional depth of the music.
Specifications
General
Type: Network player and Digital-to-Analog converter
Color Options: Light gray or dark grey
Dimensions (W x D x H): 175 x 185 x 52 mm
Weight: 1.1 kg
Power Supply: External 5 V DC, 18W, universal input
Power Consumption: < 0.5 W standby, 3.5W nominal
User interface
Input, volume, standby / ON: Rotary encoder with push
Remote control: Wattson Music app on iOS / Wattson Remote app on Android
Firmware update: Via Ethernet connection
Digital inputs
Type: Ethernet RJ45, RCA coaxial S/PDIF, TOSLINK optical S/PDIF
Sampling rate Ethernet: PCM up to 384 kHz, DSD up to 11.2896 MHz (256x)
S/PDIF : PCM up to 192kHz, DSD 2.8224MHz (64x) via DoP
Bit Depth
Ethernet: PCM up to 32-bit, DSD 1 bit
S/PDIF: PCM up to 24-bit
Streaming File Formats
PCM : WAV, FLAC, AIFF, ALAC, MP3, AAC, Ogg Vorbis, WMA
DSD: uncompressed DSF and DFF
Streaming Services
UPnP/DLNA, AirPlay, TIDAL connect, Qobuz connect, Roon Ready, plays with Audirvāna
Processing and D/A conversion
Upsampling filter: Proprietary, very short, time-optimized, based on cubic splines
Digital volume control: Proprietary, -80.0 to 0 dB, 0.5 dB step
Conversion Type: Multi-bit Sigma-Delta, chip-based, dual mono
Clocking: Internal ultra-low jitter crystal oscillator
Analog Outputs
Type: Balanced XLR, single-ended RCA, 6.35 mm Jack
Output level (full scale): 4.0 V RMS balanced, 2.0 V RMS single-ended
Total Harmonic Distortion: < 0.001 %
Signal-to-noise ratio (A-weighted): > 120 dB
Headphone Output Power
32 Ω : 2 x 150 mW
150 Ω : 2 x 50 mW
600 Ω : 2 x 10 mW
