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Pink Faun
Website:https://www.pinkfaun.com/
Est. year: 1990
Pink Faun is a Dutch maker of music servers, streamers and digital output cards, based in Wageningen. The name began in the 1990s with designer Mattijs de Vries as a product line of the Triple M audio shop, and became a company in its own right in 2018. Its work centres on treating a computer-based server as a hi-fi source, with in-house power supplies, clocks and its own operating system, produced in small batches by hand.
Range & what it's known for
The Scion is the base server and streamer, built on an AMD 16-thread CPU with 64 GB of RAM, USB and S/PDIF outputs and 1 TB storage as standard, with 4 TB and 8 TB options. The 2.16 ultra is the reference server, successor to the 2.16 and 2.16x, with a CNC-machined inner chassis, a honeycomb motherboard platter and a 24-thread CPU. A 2.16 Dual Ultra sits beside it, and the Ultra USB Bridge and Ultra OCXO Clock are sold as separate upgrades. Linear power supplies are the core of each design. The Scion pairs a low-noise linear supply with a supercapacitor supply for its outputs, while the 2.16 ultra uses three custom transformers and plug-in output Bridges for USB, S/PDIF, I2S, MSB ProISL and CH-link.
Who owns it and where it's made
Jord Groen joined as an employee in 2011, worked on the music servers and took over the Pink Faun intellectual property in 2018, becoming owner. De Vries, who studied applied physics at the University of Twente, stays on as a designer. Everything is handcrafted in the Netherlands, and the company runs Pink Faun OS, an operating system written in-house that hosts Roon and Qobuz Connect.
The lineup in this catalog
PC and servers. The Scion music server, with internal storage from 1 to 8 TB.
Who it's for
Pink Faun suits a listener with a large local library who wants a dedicated server that also streams, rather than a general-purpose computer. A Pink Faun system normally begins with the Scion. The 2.16 ultra goes further for an owner after a modular box whose outputs can be changed to match a future DAC, and the clock and bridge upgrades extend it further.
Range & what it's known for
The Scion is the base server and streamer, built on an AMD 16-thread CPU with 64 GB of RAM, USB and S/PDIF outputs and 1 TB storage as standard, with 4 TB and 8 TB options. The 2.16 ultra is the reference server, successor to the 2.16 and 2.16x, with a CNC-machined inner chassis, a honeycomb motherboard platter and a 24-thread CPU. A 2.16 Dual Ultra sits beside it, and the Ultra USB Bridge and Ultra OCXO Clock are sold as separate upgrades. Linear power supplies are the core of each design. The Scion pairs a low-noise linear supply with a supercapacitor supply for its outputs, while the 2.16 ultra uses three custom transformers and plug-in output Bridges for USB, S/PDIF, I2S, MSB ProISL and CH-link.
Who owns it and where it's made
Jord Groen joined as an employee in 2011, worked on the music servers and took over the Pink Faun intellectual property in 2018, becoming owner. De Vries, who studied applied physics at the University of Twente, stays on as a designer. Everything is handcrafted in the Netherlands, and the company runs Pink Faun OS, an operating system written in-house that hosts Roon and Qobuz Connect.
The lineup in this catalog
PC and servers. The Scion music server, with internal storage from 1 to 8 TB.
Who it's for
Pink Faun suits a listener with a large local library who wants a dedicated server that also streams, rather than a general-purpose computer. A Pink Faun system normally begins with the Scion. The 2.16 ultra goes further for an owner after a modular box whose outputs can be changed to match a future DAC, and the clock and bridge upgrades extend it further.
