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Music Servers
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Friday, 23 October 2009
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Written by
Todd Whitesel
Back in 1981 Sammy Hagar had a big radio hit, singing, “There's only one way to rock.” When it comes to setting up a digital music server, however, there's most definitely more than one way. There's hundreds of ways, but most of us want something simple. Digital audiophiles go to great lengths to turn laptops or old towers into music servers, running them through digital-to-analog converters to boost the sound and then using any number of ways to stream the music to an audio system. The drawback of such an approach means that you have an extra computer, and that it always has to be turned on, and so on. A better solution, in my mind, is to bring all aspects of computer audio together into a single server, player and streamer. And that's just what the Olive Opus 4 ...
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Thursday, 15 October 2009
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Written by
Mike Flacy
With the rash of recent A/V components integrating the plethora of web related, streaming audio content into their feature set, Logitech has been streamlining their delivery of the same content in their Squeezebox series. The Squeezebox Radio is Logitech’s most recent release into this field. The compact form factor of the Squeezebox Radio is designed for an audience looking to bring their library of music into a smaller room. Additionally, the Squeezebox Radio is ideal for those who have a Wi-Fi network already established for streaming audio files. The Squeezebox (MSRP: $199.99) comes packaged in a small box and wrapped in light plastic packaging. It also comes wrapped in a thin plastic film designed to keep smudges off the finish. The piano black, glossy finish (also available in red) is very susceptible to fingerprints and dust is very visible as ...
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Wednesday, 09 September 2009
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Written by
Andre Marc
The raging debate du jour these days for both the music industry and audiophiles is the future of physical media. The compact disc is 25 plus years old, but is still the primary format for physical music purchases. There is also a tiny sliver of music buyers who opt for SACD, DVD-A, or Vinyl LP. The formidable and rapidly growing population of music buyers, who purchase music downloads, prefers to be free spirits in their relationships to any physical medium. The trade off is these consumers are willing to accept much lower sound quality. It should be noted that there a handful of websites that also sell high resolution, lossless music files as well, but at a premium, and usually by lesser known artists.Music servers systems are at the vanguard of the new landscape. Truth be told, the iPod and ...
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Monday, 01 September 2008
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Written by
Andrew Robinson
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When I was told Krell was developing an iPod dock, I knew I had to have it, if for no other reason other than the fact that it was a Krell iPod dock and was sure to be ridiculous. If there’s one thing I like about Krell, it’s the simple fact that every product they make goes to 11 in more ways than sheer volume. After un-boxing the Krell KID (Krell iPod Dock) and matching Papa dock stereo amplifier, it’s safe to say this system takes iPod music to the ultra-extreme. Until the KID’s arrival, my impression of an iPod dock was a cheap puck-style hunk of plastic helping to produce cheap hunk of plastic sound. Don’t get me wrong, I love the Apple iPod, truly I do, and I consider it a viable music source when handled correctly, but ...
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Thursday, 01 November 2007
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Written by
Brian Kahn
Introduction
Whether
we are in the car driving to the grocery store or on a plane suffering
through yet another painful flight to somewhere, music lovers are able
to access what used to be an impossibly large music collection right in
the palms of our hands. Why shouldn’t we be able to do the same when we
are at home? Over the past few years, AVRev.com has reviewed several
top-notch music servers from the likes of ReQuest, Escient QSonix and
others that give music lovers better than iPod audio quality, along
with larger than iPod storage. In 2006, we reviewed the very affordable
($299) Squeezebox from Slim Devices (since purchased by Logitech) which
differs significantly from the aforementioned competition in that
Squeezebox does not have a hard drive to store music, but rather
interfaces with your computer system to access the music files stored
therein, as well as Internet radio.
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Slim Devices Transporter, which retails ...
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