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Written by John E. Johnson, Jr.
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Monday, 27 June 2011 00:00 |
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 Media servers usually contain a hard drive on which you store your music (ripped CDs). Bryston's new BDP-1 Music Server utililzes USB thumb drives or external USB hard drive. This way, you can carry your music around with you on a thumb drive and use with multiple devices to play the music. This music server is actually a computer with full operating system, and can be connected wirelessly to your iPod or iPad to choose and play albums. In fact, it really is designed to be used that way, so that the server itself can be a low profile component in your equipment rack. In this review, we test the BDP-1 along with Bryston's BDA-1 DAC, which is capable of handling 24/192 bitstreams.
Tags: DACs | Music Servers |
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Written by Robert Kozel
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Monday, 06 June 2011 00:00 |
Olive Media, Inc. has been in the business of digital music since it was started by Dr. Oliver Bergmann and Robert Altmann back in 2005. I have admired the Olive products for many years and had the opportunity to visit with Robert Altmann at CES 2011 this past January. I really appreciated his introduction to their products and I was especially impressed with his love of music. We recently reviewed the Olive 03HD, and here, we cover the 04HD.
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Written by Chris Heinonen
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Tuesday, 31 May 2011 00:00 |
Of all the gear that I reviewed last year, my favorite component by far was the Squeezebox Touch. Having instant access to all of my music, and high resolution downloads, was just a fantastic thing that led me to listen to far more, and varied, music that before. However, the one thing I always said about the Touch is that while I loved it, I wasn’t going to buy one for my Dad since I’d have to install a PC server component, or hook up an external hard drive that I’d have to keep ripping his music to for him. For him, a simple, all-in-one solution would be what I would want.
Tags: Media Servers | Music Servers |
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Written by Sandy Bird
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Sunday, 21 September 2008 17:00 |
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 Every now and then you run into a product you are so impressed with you just have to share. The ISTAR Mini Network Media Tank is one of those products. By all accounts the product is another media extender set top box that you plug into your TV that plays video, music and photos from an attached hard drive or home network. There are lots of these products on the market.
Tags: Media Servers | Media Tanks | Networks |
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Written by Ofer LaOr
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Sunday, 20 July 2008 17:00 |
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I found both video and audio quality of the TViX M6500A to be exceptional, and over the last few months, some of the firmware updates have already made this unit significantly more stable and better than its previous versions. Given that DViCO has been quite adamant in providing support for existing products and continually improving them, I have no doubt they will succeed in turning this unit into an ever more powerful item over the upcoming months.
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Written by Ofer LaOr
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Sunday, 15 June 2008 17:00 |
 The HDX900 is an HDTV streamer based on the Network Media Tank (NMT) middleware platform by Syabas. If you don’t know what a streamer is yet, think of the AppleTV but without any of the Apple restrictions. Consider a player that will play all of your movies, in file format, including Blu-ray, DVDs, or any popular format you might have on your computer hard drive, as well as pictures and audio, but doesn’t require you to pay a monthly iTunes bill.
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Written by John E. Johnson, Jr.
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Sunday, 03 February 2008 16:00 |
 The Qsonix Q110 is a media server meant to be put in by a custom installer, but you can do it yourself because it is very easy to work with. It has a 250 GB hard drive that will hold hundreds of CDs in lossless compression format and serves four zones simultaneously. The user interface is a dream and employs a touchscreen that has drag and drop functionality, using your finger to bring music into the que for playback.
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Written by Ofer LaOr
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Friday, 30 November 2007 16:00 |
 Over the last two years, the Korean company DViCO has proven to be a worthwhile player in the media streamer market. The company is now producing its third generation in the TViX family of products: the TViX HD-M4100SH.
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Sunday, 31 December 2006 16:00 |
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Visit the Secrets of Home Theater & High Fidelity Media Server Review Archives.
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