Meridian Sooloos App - Now for iPad
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With the release today of the new Meridian Sooloos app for iPhone®, iPod Touch® and now, the iPad®, you can get the most out of your Meridian Sooloos system by using it as a rich wireless controller. The app lets you take full advantage of Meridian’s award-winning Sooloos digital media system to store, manage, browse and play the highest quality audio in multiple zones around your home.
With an average 4+ star rating on iTunes App Store, the app from Meridian Audio has been winning fans since its release in March 2010. Now, the iPad version of the app delivers all the same functionality while taking full advantage of the iPad's gorgeous screen.
The Meridian Sooloos app connects to your WiFi network, locates your Sooloos system, and connects to it automatically - no configuration is necessary. Once connected, you can browse your music and control all aspects of playback in all your system zones.
Features include:
- WiFi auto-discovery
- Transport control
- Volume and mute controls
- View full-screen cover art for current track
- Control multiple zone playback
- Browse by artist, genre, release date, import date, tags
- Shuffle, Loop and Seek
- Swim chosen music for you
- Quick Search using on-screen keyboard
- Create, Load, Edit and Save playlists
- Browse Focuses created on your Sooloos system
Download the app free of charge from:
http://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/sooloos/id348003289?mt=8
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Marantz NA7004 Network Audio Player
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Marantz America announced the ultimate all-in-one music source component, the NA7004 Network Audio Player ($799). It serves as a digital-to-analog converter for people with large collections of downloaded high-resolution music on their computers or other external storage devices who want to listen through their home audio systems. Notably, the NA7004's music reproduction capabilities outperform that of conventional CD players, revealing subtle nuances and dynamics of high-quality sound that are often lost in file transfer from downloaded music collections, ripped CDs and more.
Hearing Is Believing: Users Enjoy Better Sounding Digital Music
The NA7004 is a DLNA version 1.5-certified DMP (Digital Media Player) and DMR (Digital Media Renderer) capable of providing users with studio quality sound in home listening rooms. The NA7004 utilizes some of today's most advanced and innovative sonic-enhancement technologies to deliver pristine audio performance from all of today's most widely used digital music sources. Users also have access to vast collections of Internet radio stations for high-quality playback though a home audio system. Among its key performance and convenience features are a USB front-panel input featuring iPod® Digital Connection and a back panel M-XPort for wireless Bluetooth streaming with optional RX101 Bluetooth Receiver. The NA7004 also includes access to over 14,000 Internet Radio stations. File types supported include FLAC, 96/24FLAC, WAV, WMA, WMA Lossless, MP3, MPEG-4 and AAC. The USB Audio Sample Rate / Word Depth is up to 96kHz / 24bit, and the built-in D/A converter mode provides 3 digital inputs. (COAX, OPTICAL, USB).
"The NA7004 is the solution to better sounding digital music that discriminating listeners have long been waiting for and will introduce legendary Marantz audio performance to a new generation of consumers who listen mostly to digital music. To create this brand new type of music enhancement product, Marantz engineers utilized all of their expertise in audio enhancement and technological innovation. The result is a product that fully lives up to the legendary Marantz name and audio heritage -- an elegant single-component source solution that reveals the full potential of sound quality in digital music, bringing significantly more room-filling power, musical presence and depth to the performance."
-- Kevin Zarow, Vice President of Sales and Marketing, Marantz America