The developers of the Symphony and Opus network audio players have added perpendicular recording to their Symphony line. This new type of hard drive technology has been added in the form of 2.5 inch hard drives which run quieter and cooler than standard 3.5 drives. Currently this technology is only available for the Symphony 160GB […]

With an expected release this month, the MediaReady MC is the fourth generation of media center PC’s from MediaReady. The MediaReady MC Digital Home Entertainment Center has all of the features you would expect from a solid HTPC but also includes a variety of audio formats like CD Audio, WAV, MP3, FLAC, Ogg Vorbis, […]

Envive, Inc. has been busy announcing a variety of products this month including a software suite called Panorama. The Panorama suite is touted as being an all in one solution for serving up media as well as controlling home automation all at a affordable price point. There are three servers including Envive Panorama Cinema Server […]

Pre-ordering has started for Slim Devices newest addition. The Transporter is a full sized networked audio component with all of the features you would expect and then some. The webpage does such a great job at detailing the features by each category I will not waste space doing it here. The retail price is $1,999.00 […]

Roku has released an update for there SoundBridge software. Version 2.5 brings alot of new features to the table, too many to list here. The link below lists all new features and includes a guide on how to update your software.
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Roku has also been busy developing there open source media server software that enables […]

The makers of the popular Squeezebox, Slim Devices has teamed up with Infrant Technologies who make a line of NAS devices to create an interesting bundle. The bundle consists of a Ready NAS NV that comes pre-loaded with Slim Devices SlimServer software and 2 Squeezbox 3’s for a total of $1499.00. The NV model has […]

Escient has released it’s new musc sharing software Fireball-PC for both Windows and MAC OS X. This new software allows your existing Fireball Media Manager software to see files shared on your home network expanding your storage possibilites. So if you have also have a NAS, server and/or files spread across multiple PC’s, Fireball-PC can […]

The makers of the Musica and Symphony have released an audiophile grade CD player that includes a quiet 400GB hard drive. Inside are 4 Burr-Brown 24-bit/192 kHz DACs with custom made temperature-compensated crystal oscillator to eliminate jitters and a processor based on the 32-bit IBM PowerPC. Currently the Opus can encode to AIFF, WAV, FLAC […]

Sonos now offers a cheaper version of there popular Z100 ZonePlayer. The Z80 does not have a internal amplifier so the idea is that you can connect it to your receiver via one of the many digital or analog outputs or any other amplified device. As you can see from the image above […]

Escient has released the DVDM-522, a multi-zone media manager for your DVD, CD and digital media files. With a built-in 500GB hard drive there is plenty of space for starting a media collection but if that’s not enough you can also attach external CD/DVD changers to the unit to add additional content. The DVDM-522 […]

Escient has released the Fireball SE-D1 a DVD and CD Manager that can be used with Sony DVD/CD changers. The SE-D1 supports both FLAC and MP3.
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McIntosh Laboratory, Inc. makers of high-end AV components has released the MS300 Music Server. The MS300 is a 300GB music server with wide range of features that allow for computer like control in an AV component. Control can be managed via the included wireless keyboard, remote control or the web-based interface anywhere on your network. […]

Olive offers two versions of there wireless digital music center. The Symphony (80GB) and Musica (160GB) both allow you to insert a CD into the built-in CD player and encode to a variety of lossless formats including WAV, AIFF and FLAC. You can also connect a external devices such as a tape player, record […]