The 432 EVO company's music servers have been around for a few years now, beating the drum for 432 Hz tuning, instead of the modern standard of 440 Hz, from his Belgian HQ since 2013.

However, this year sees renewed versions of its AEON (above) and MASTER offerings, which sees upgrades and new features across all models.

Firstly, the flagship MASTER server (below) has seen a price drop from £14,000 to £11,500, which can't be bad. Furthermore, both the AEON and MASTER 2021 models now include an improved clock board driving the separate high-end USB output board; meanwhile, no re-clocking USB hubs are to be found here. If you already own a previous iteration of these models, you can upgrade the clock by contacting your dealer in the first instance.

Additionally, the 432 EVO AEON, MASTER and HIGH-END models now feature the fastest Gemini Lake Refresh CPUs (J5040) from Intel. This, we are told, is 75% to 100% faster than the more commonly used N4200 (depending on the benchmark used). The STANDARD also gets a faster CPU in the shape of a custom-tuned J5005 or J5040, chosen for lower software jitter, just in case you were wondering.  

All units are equipped with 8 GB RAM, which generally leaves plenty of headroom when used under normal audiophile conditions. Also, all feature 2TB Samsung SSDs (upgradable to 4 or 8TB) on custom 3D printed spring suspension mounts designed and printed in-house.

432 EVO says it uses system on chip (SoC) based designs due to lower EMI and RF than full desktop or server CPUs. Furthermore, according to the brand, in the latest models, the SATA is noise filtered, and SATA protocol tuning is also applied to flagship products.

Finally, the 432 EVO models now run Roon 1.8. This can be combined with 432 EVO's own player that can upsample with ten custom tuneable filters – combined with or without the unique 432 Hz plug-in feature or can be, of course, run bit-perfect.

Moreover, the AEON & MASTER models run Roon on dedicated CPU cores with their own real-time tuning, player and base OS, each running on separate CPU cores for optimal software jitter tuning.

The full range is available in the UK now through Whole Note Distribution's retail partners. You can request a brochure here.

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