LINN Sneaky DS
Much more music from your downloads

At last, enjoy genuine audiophile performance from digital music around your home.

Click Here to buy….PC-based music players have considerable plus points - the simple connectivity, ease of use and fast access to your music collection. However, until now the audio performance has failed to inspire.Sneaky Music DS means you no longer have to compromise performance for convenience. With an unrivalled hi-fi heritage, Sneaky Music DS combines genuine audiophile performance with all the convenience of a typical PC-based system, making it the perfect networked music solution.Sneaky DS streams audio files from a central location and converts them to music. On-board pre- and power amplification makes it a compact and discreet unit. Simply connect it to your home network and add loudspeakers to enjoy unprecedented musical clarity from your digital music.

With your digital music collection stored in one place, ready to be heard at full quality, you won’t miss a note. Enjoy your CD collection as never before. It also supports both the highest quality and most widely used download formats, as well as a wide range of Internet radio stations.What’s more, you are entirely free to choose the control solution that best meets your requirements. Whether you use a touch screen, remote control, PC or even your mobile phone, you’ll get instant access to your entire music collection at the touch of a button.Want to enjoy your digital music collection at the same superb quality throughout your home? Simply expand your system by adding a Sneaky Music DS and loudspeakers wherever you want to listen. You can even add Sneaky to other network music players already installed in your home, to create a mixed multi-room system.Your entire music collection can of course still be accessed simultaneously and independently in any room within a multi-room system. You can even use the same controller for every room in your home.Your Linn DS system can be kept up to date with the latest features and formats via a simple software upgrade

Linn Sneaky DS works by integrating with your home computer network. Once set up it’s simple to play music stored on your network. Please note that additional equipment may need to be purchased to use all the features of Sneaky, depending on your network configuration. Contact us for more information.Click Here to Buy…Sneaky DS plays back high resolution music files - up to 24 Bit. These can be downloaded from a growing number of websites, including www.linnrecords.com. Also look at www.archive.org which has an archive of live music recordings, some of which have been recorded at higher resolution than CD - and are available to download for free!Specifications:

	Plays high resolution music files via your main system or discretely via its own 20W amplifier
	Integrates with your home network – if you access the internet on your computer wirelessly, you already have a home network
	Controlled via a laptop, universal remote control, web tablet or iphone
	Plays FLAC, WAV or MP3 files; native support for 24-Bit studio master files
	Choice of silver or black casework, can be used vertically or horizontally
	Dimensions: H 44.5mm x W 345mm x D 274mm
	2 year guarantee

NuVo Technologies has a capacious new version that packs a full half-terabyte of space and an even more astounding price tag. The June-bound NV-M3-500 handles WAV, WMA and those ghastly compressed MP3 files, and its ability to sync to a home computer means that it won’t take issue with playing back DRM-laden tracks, either. On the unit itself, you’ll find a polycarbonate, capacitive touch front panel interface with an OLED display and a smattering of ports ’round the back,

No sonic compromises necessary with NuVo technologies’ new 500 GB music server

Offering more than triple the capacity of its predecessor, the half-terabyte NV-M3-500 enables homeowners to easily store, distribute and manage their digital music collections at the highest bit rates possible-even fully uncompressed.

Hebron, KY – April 15, 2008 – NuVo Technologies’ newest music server more than triples the capacity of its predecessor, providing homeowners the ample disk space necessary to comfortably store their digital music at larger file capacities. The new NV-M3-500 Music Server, announced today, offers 500 GB (or a half-terabyte) of storage, a quantum leap in capacity over NuVo’s still-available, 160 GB NV-M3 Music Server. Music lovers now have two compelling music server options available from NuVo.

“Digital music collections are growing exponentially, along with consumers’ desire to enjoy high-bit-rate and even lossless audio files,” said David Rodarte, president and chief operating officer of NuVo Technologies. “Highly compressed audio files are fine for portable players, but homeowners now recognize that for home theater and whole-home entertainment, only files with higher bit rates offer the sound quality they want. With the NV-M3-500, homeowners no longer need to make sonic compromises with their digital music. Every digital track in their collections can both sound great and be easily accessible in any room of the house through our new music server and our Grand Concerto and Essentia E6G whole-home audio systems.”

Using Windows® Media Player and the uncompressed WAV file format, homeowners can enjoy pristine, audiophile-quality playback with a bitstream identical to every bit of what they would get from a CD. NuVo engineers estimate that homeowners can store roughly 830 CDs in uncompressed WAV on the NV-M3-500. The server can also store and play Windows Media Audio (WMA) and compressed MP3 files.

NuVo music servers offer full Digital Rights Management (DRM) compliance, three source outputs, NuVoNet Communication and Windows® Media Player music management. The server syncs to a home PC to retrieve music files and allow playback of DRM music; the experience is akin to syncing with a portable MP3 player. The music server also can act as a source for NuVo’s Grand Concerto whole-home audio system, where, combined with other NuVo source devices such as its AM/FM, XM and Sirius tuners and iPod docks, the homeowner can seamlessly enjoy an enormous amount of personally-acquired and broadcast music in any room of the house with just the push of a button on a NuVo Control Pad. Full metadata for all tracks stored on the server is available on the Control Pad.

The music server offers a polycarbonate, capacitive touch front panel interface with OLED (Organic Light Emitting Diode) display (similar to that of the Grand Concerto Control Pads), backup of audio files on a connected PC or on a portable player, simultaneous output of three audio streams, and instant compatibility with downloaded and subscription-based music. CDs are simply ripped to Windows Media Player on the PC and synced to the music server.

Syncing between the PC and the music server can be accomplished in either of two ways. The first is via a standard USB port connection; for situations where the PC and the server are physically remote, a “behind-the-walls” extender system can use CAT-5 to link to USB cables at either end. In addition, NuVo’s Wireless USB Syncing Device enables syncing between the PC and the music server without a hard-wired connection, providing a USB device connection over Wireless-G.

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For more information about NuVo Technologies, please visit www.nuvotechnologies.com.

The Escient FP-1 provides all of the great on-screen music management features you expect from a FireBall for your iPod. It’s a complete FireBall Music Manager with all of the custom install features you need to provide seamless integration of iPod music into any home audio system.

The Escient FP-1 can also stream music from any Escient FireBall music server or PC/Mac with or without a docked iPod. The FP-1 even allows other Escient FireBalls to access and play music stored on the iPod including music purchased from the iTunes Music Store.

A remote handset is part of the Escient FP-1 kit, which lets you control the device from across the room, via a stand alone IR relay system�
Alternatively you can have command of your iPod via our learning remote controls, including the Philips Pronto or from your PC via the RS232 connection.

When used with the Russound CAV system, which distributes composite video to all screens around your house, the Escient FP-1 allows you to display the metadata menu structure from the iPod, listen to your music through full size speakers and watch videos and view photo albums on your screen of choice. If you use the FP-1 with a multiroom controller without video distribution, you will need a video modulator such as the Labgear MOD111 and a TV distribution amplifier to make the iPod menus and video output available on TVs throughout the house.

Specification Escient FP-1

 
• Connections
  • S-Video outputs: 1
  • Composite video outputs: 1
  • Analogue stereo audio outputs: 1
  • Optical digital audio outputs: 1
  • RS232 connection: 1
  • Ethernet connection: 1
  • IR input: 1
• USB connection
• General
  • Dimensions: 205.7mm x 129.5mm x 40.6mm (w x d x h)
  • Supported Audio Formats: PCM, MP3, FLAC, WMA, AAC
  • Included Accessories and Cables:
    • IR Remote
    • A/V cables
    • Ethernet cable
    • Power cord

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The Systemline MusicServer SMS3-160 is an easy to use, one box ‘audio library’, providing instant access to all your favourite music, categorised and organised just the way you like it. You can control the MusicServer and enjoy your music at the touch of a button, and from anywhere around your home, when incorporated into a multiroom system.

Three independent stereo audio outputs allow simultaneous three users to independently access the music library and hear their own selections, with the ability to listen, via the built-in Internet radio, to stations from all around the world, or to listen to a CD placed in the CD tray.

CD tracks are automatically listed, and album cover art retrieved, via RJ45 LAN port linked to your Internet connection. Listings are displayed on your TV, a Systemline Modular Touchscreen or the front panel display on the MusicServer itself

Systemline Modular integration

When used as part of a Systemline Modular  multiroom installation, the 3 video outputs can become input for the Systemline Modular video hub, and viewed on all connected TVs.

The addition of the Systemline Modular Advanced Touch Screen control system, ie touchscreens and hub, gives you a full display of album, artist, track, etc together with touchscreen buttons for controlling the MusicServer. Audio outputs are connected directly into your Systemline Modular multi-source hub.

In non Systemline multiroom situations the TV ouput can be distributed to all TVs in the house if you have a TV distribution system eg Labgear TV amplifier . In this case control of the MusicServer is achieved via IR control from keypads via the multiroom controller.

Additional Features of Systemline MusicServer

-Plays standard audio CDs (even if “Copy Protected”)�
-“Enhanced” CD player displays current artist, album and track information (needs Internet connection)�
-Store for “Line in” recordings�
-Back-up data/music to CD.�
-Future proof – allows on site upgrades�
-Extended code set available for full Multi-source Modular integration via LRN7 – gives Enhanced functionality�
-Party Mode – all three sources output the same program material around the house�
-Plays audio files from any other networked PC via Ethernet�
-Play/record files from and to any USB compatible mass storage device�
-Rack mount option�
-Unique three way ‘Now Playing’ screen�
-Background compression for speedy CD ripping�
-Choose from uncompressed, 320, 192, 128, and 68kbs for audio storage�
-Future proof - full optical S/PDIF input/output compliment for Systemline Digital�
-Silent running fan system allows listening room placement�
-Front mounted USB socket for easy attachment of portable mp3 devices�
-Stores 40,000+ songs (average 3.5MB file fully compressed) 

Specifications for Systemline MusicServer SMS3-160

I/O Ports: PS/2 Keyboard Port, VGA Port, RJ-45 LAN Port, 2 USB Ports and IR Input

Audio Connections:

-Stereo Analog In: RCA x 2�
-Stereo Analog Out RCA x 3�
-Coaxial S/PDIF In x 1�
-Optical S/PDIF In x 1�
-Optical S/PDIF Out x 3

Video Connections:�
-Composite Video x 3�
-S-Video x 1�
-VGA x 1
-Hard Drive: 160GB�
-Frequency Response: 20Hz-20kHz +/- 1dB (PCM) S/N Ratio: >98dB (PCM)�
-Playback Formats: Uncompressed WAV @ 44.1kHz / 16bit 48kHz / 16bit, Windows Media Audio 9 (.wma) 32, 48, 64, 96, 128, 160, 192 kbs, MPEG-1 Layer 3 (.mp3) 48, 96, 128, 192, 320 kbs, MPEG-4 Audio Layer (.aac) (.m4a), Microsoft Pulse Code Modulation (PCM) (MSADPCM) (IMAADPCM), Microsoft MPEG-1 Layer 1; Microsoft MPEG-1 Layer 2, Waveform Audio (.wav), Sound File (.snd), Unix -Audio (.au), Audio Interchange File Format (.aif, .aiff, .aifc)�
Colour Anodised Silver�
–Dimensions HxWxD 96 x 438 x 343mm (3.8 x 17.25 x 13.5”)�
-Weight 9.0kg

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FireBall SE-160i: The World’s Best Music Manager Simply record your CDs to the FireBall’s internal 160GB hard drive and leave the rest to Escient. The SE-160i will automatically connect to the Internet and identify each CD you throw at it, providing you with the artist name, album name, song list, genre, and even cover art for every CD in your collection without ever having to type a single word

FireBall SE-160i / SE-500i: The World’s Best Music Managers

Introducing the new FireBall SEi digital audio servers from Escient, the world leader in digital media management systems. The SEi is packed with features that make storing, finding, and playing your favorite music as easy as watching the T.V. It’s a CD Player, CD Recorder, Internet Radio Streamer, and digital audio server all in one high quality digital audio component. It’s 160GB or 500GB internal hard drive provides enough storage for thousands of CDs and if you get tired of those, feel free to tune in to anyone of the free Internet radio stations. Just think of all the space you’ll save by hiding all those plastic CD cases!

Hours of Audio Storage Capacity:

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