Music isn’t all zones, terabytes, and signal-to-noise ratios. The amazing thing about music is how it enhances our experiences, and Sooloos does that like nothing else. With Sooloos, you create the right recipe for every situation. Even with a huge music collection, you can quickly and easily get to the perfect mix of selections for any occasion. Using Focus, you control the criteria for the music you want to hear, ensuring that you play the right song at the right time, every time.

Sooloos isn’t a product, it’s a system and unlike any other Music Server you have seen before. Designed with your needs in mind - whether you have a one-room apartment or a thirty-room estate, one hundred albums or ten thousand - Sooloos is tailored to meet your specific requirements. Using components from the three Sooloos product series (store, source, and control) anyone can have the ultimate music experience

Sooloos Store Series:
The Sooloos store series is offered in mirrored component pairs with capacities of one, two, or three terabytes (providing up to 2,000, 4,000, and 6,000 albums of storage, respectively). Additional pairs can be added at any time, to accommodate even the largest music libraries.

Sooloos Control Series:
Every Sooloos system includes a control : one, which provides master control, import, and configuration functions on its big, bright 17" touch panel display. The control : one allows you to import CDs in minutes using the world’s most advanced error detection and correction algorithms. Add control points with additional control : ones, with the 7" control : micro, or with the wireless 7" control : remote.

Sooloos Source Series:
Sooloos offers source : one, source : five, and source : micro components to provide up to 32 discrete zones of audio in a variety of network and distribution configurations.
The source series features:
• super low-jitter design ( < 1 nanosecond)
• DC-coupled signal path
• ground-free transformer-coupled digital output
• servo-balanced analog outputs
• 192 kHz / 24 bit converters
• SNR 110 dB RMS unweighted, 113 dBA

Tags: Music Server

Slim Devices' Transporter™ was designed to appeal to the most discerning audiophiles and music lovers. It streams digital music with sound quality that surpasses even the most exotic compact disc players. At the heart of Transporter is a "no compromise" attitude to component selection and electronic design.

Feel Your Music—The new TransNav™ controller uses dynamic tactile feedback to provide fast access to any song even in the largest music collection. The sleek, backlit, infrared remote and dual fluorescent displays make it easy to use from anywhere in the room.

Quality Connectors—Transporter's back panel features a complete set of professional-grade connectors, including both balanced and unbalanced signals for its analog and digital interfaces.

Astounding Analog—The AK4396 "Miracle DAC" was chosen for its high dynamic range and low distortion. Its low out-of-band noise allows for the use of low-order output filters with higher cutoffs, resulting in preservation of phase and reduced distortion in the audible band. This extraordinary accuracy at higher frequencies allows Transporter to resolve the exact staging of instruments and the finest details of any recording. In addition, Transporter's digital inputs allow its built-in DAC to be used with other sources.

Accurate Digital—Transporter's digital path is not only "bit perfect", but also extremely accurate in timing precision. Clock signals in Transporter are handled not as ones and zeroes, but as precision analog signals. Specialized crystal oscillators, careful clock management, and linear-regulated logic supplies ensure the lowest possible jitter throughout the system.

Clean Power—Transporter's DAC and output amplifiers are powered by Super Regulators, based on the legendary design by Walt Jung. These regulators offer lower output impedance, faster response, and better noise rejection than standard three-terminal regulators. The result is an incredibly natural sound, with a pitch-black background and a shocking level of detail.
Transporter is the network music player audiophiles have been waiting for.

The Slim Devices Transporter will be available in Australia sometime in October 2006.

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You have to hand it to Apple, with the new iTunes 7 for Mac and PC, they have just released what is without a doubt the best entertainment management system on the planet. This is a major upgrade, the most significant release of iTunes for some time and has many new features.

One of the new features that is truly brilliant, is the addition of 'Coverflow' which was a stand alone application which Apple bought the rights to. It allows you to browse your CD collection by album covers, in a three dimensional array. Apple have also added the feature to do the same for your books and movies as well.

Other new features include a revamped menu system, which separates the library into categories of Music, Movies, TV Shows etc, to simply library browsing. But, without a doubt the most requested feature they have added is that iTunes will now retrieve album covers. Before you get too excited about that though, remember you have to have an iTunes Store account to be able to use his feature, which you can do at no charge it must be said. So all in all, Apple have released a superb application which together with a Mac mini or iMac, provides you with a killer home entertainment solution.

Tags: Music