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Inside, every functional block has its own enclosure: a CNC-machined aluminum cell for the SSDs, a layered aluminum-and-wood housing for the oven-controlled crystal oscillator clock, copper-shielded enclosures for the dual transformers, and five independently regulated linear power rails feeding the mainboard, Ethernet, clock, OCXO, and storage. The intent is component-by-component noise rejection rather than one chassis hoping to do everything at once. The complementary HzCORE Platform — a tripod-outrigger base with Stillpoints decoupling — and the Hz LAN Isolator round out the line for owners who want the full architecture.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHi-Fi+ named the HzCORE Highly Commended in their 2026 Awards (Server Under £15k category), describing the result simply: \"It's still my system, but better.\" That's the honest test for a source component, and it's why HzProject earned a place on Alma's roster — a small Korean maker doing the engineering work that lets the rest of a carefully chosen system show what it actually is.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAlma Music and Audio is an authorized HzProject dealer, with the HzCORE available for audition in our showrooms in San Diego, CA and Sterling, VA. We offer free shipping on all U.S. orders, expert system-matching consultation, and trade-in consideration on qualifying components. Call us on the East Coast at (619) 243-4924 or on the West Coast at (619) 243-6615 to talk through whether the HzCORE is the right fit for your system.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"hzproject-hzcore-music-server","title":"HzProject HzCORE Music Server","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eNot Just Beatiful\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe ultimate personal listening experience is here. 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Routers, switches, and Wi-Fi extenders inject electrical noise and high-frequency interference into the Ethernet line; that noise rides downstream into the DAC's clock and analog stages, where it shows up as a small but real loss of refinement. The Hz LAN Isolator is HzProject's purpose-built answer: a passive in-line device that galvanically isolates the upstream network from the downstream music component, blocking the electrical path noise travels on while passing the music data losslessly.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe construction is what you'd expect from HzProject. The body is milled from two solid pieces of non-magnetic, high-grade aluminum — small, dense, machined cleanly. Inside sit three filtering cells: two complementary cells positioned upstream and downstream of a central 2.5G Base-T isolation transformer, with a shielded modular jack carrying gold-plated contacts. 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