About the HiFi Rose RS151
An original approach to high-performance streaming
Product highlights:
- Featured in our article:Â Best hi-fi streamers for 2025
- 15.4-inch-wide high-definition capacitive touchscreen LCD display
- solid milled aluminum chassis
- customized Android operating system
- control with touchscreen, RoseConnect Premium app for Apple® and Android™ devices, or included Bluetooth remote
- 8-core CPU offers enhanced speed and graphics performance
- upgraded internal flash memory:
- DRAM capacity: 8GB
- eMMC capacity: 32GB
- ESS SABRE ES9039PRO DAC
- maximum resolution: 32-bit/768 kHz
- 8-channel independent processing
- ROSE DPCâ„¢ module precisely synchronizes digital input signals with femto clock for super-accurate musical detail
- supports Apple AirPlay, Spotify Connect, Qobuz Connect, DLNA, and MQA (full decoder)
- supports TIDAL, RoseTube (YouTube), internet radio stations, and RosePodcast
- works as a Roon player (requires Roon subscription and a Roon Core running on your network)
- Roon Core is media server software that runs on your computer, NAS drive, or other compatible hardware
- supported audio formats include MQA, WAV, FLAC, AIFF, WMA, MP3, OGG, M4A and more
- PCM decoding up to 32-bit/768kHz
- native DSD decoding up to DSD512 (22.6MHz)
- supported video formats include ASF, AVI, MKV, MP4, WMV, MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, and more up to 4K resolution
- Bluetooth 5.4 with high-quality aptX audio encoding
Connections:
- Ethernet port for connection to your home network
- USB input for included Wi-Fi dongle
- Wi-Fi dongle included
- service port
- HDMI video output with up to 4K resolution
- HDMI ARC audio input
- digital inputs:
- Toslink optical
- coaxial
- USB-Type B input for playing music from a computer
- AES/EBU digital XLR
- analog input:
- stereo RCA unbalanced line in
- digital outputs:
- Toslink optical
- coaxial
- I2S-HDMI
- AES/EBU digital XLR
- analog outputs:
- stereo XLR balanced preamp out
- stereo RCA unbalanced preamp out
- 3.5mm 12V trigger in/out
- storage interface:
- two USB Type-A 3.0 ports for connecting an external drive and the HiFi Rose RSA780E CD drive (sold separately)
- enclosed bay for optional 2-1/2″ SSD (solid-state drive, SATA III)
Other info:
- total harmonic distortion:
- 0.0002% (balanced)
- 0.0003% (unbalanced)
- signal to noise ratio:
- 131 dB (balanced)
- 124 dB (unbalanced)
- 16-15/16″W x 4-7/8″H x 12-9/16″D
- 24.25 lbs.
- warranty: 1 year