Tuesday, July 26, 2005

Hi-Fidelio


Vistra Systems have a great looking appliance called a HiFidelio.
Find Ripping your CD collection hard work & time consuming? No longer… thanks to hifidelio. Just put the CD in. The tracks are read and saved automatically. hifidelio’s “inner intelligence” even registers track title, artist and album. Over 2 million music titles can be stored on the internal database. hifidelio also let’s you record your LPs and cassettes and even synchronise with your MP3 players. All your music on one single device… a device that can store up to 20,000 songs (depending on format). Brilliant!

The Hifidelio comes with an impressive list of hardware:

# Combo CD/DVD Drive
# CD recorder for audio CDs
# Hard disk for up to 20,000 tracks (80 GB - hifidelio)
# Hard disk for up to 40,000 tracks (160GB - hifidelio Pro)
# High resolution, backlit display (hifidelio)
# High resolution, gray scale display (hifidelio Pro)
# Analogue stereo input (record from turntable, tape deck, etc)
# Headphone jack
# Two USB 1.1/2.0 ports
# 4 port, 10/100 auto-sense Ethernet switch
# 54 Mbit/s WLAN access point 802.11g
# Incredibly simple user interface
# Internal CD database for album titles, tracks and artists
# Access to Internet CD databases
# Fully compatible with iTunes on Windows and Mac
# UPnP AV, Rendezvous networking protocols
# Support for additional devices including backup hard disk, iPod, MP3 player, keyboards, etc).

The Music formats handled are:
# MP3 and MP3 VBR (Variable Bit Rate)
# Additional encoding rates (hifidelio Pro)
# Multi-room streaming **
# AAC (MPEG4) recording and playback
# OGG/Vorbis playback
# WMA playback
# FLAC (Free Lossless Audio Codec) playback
# RAW data formats (uncompressed): AIFF, WAV
# CD Audio
# CD-R
# CD-RW
# DVD
# Internet Radio - select from thousands of Internet radio stations (hifidelio Pro)
# DVC (Dynamic Volume Compression) (hifidelio Pro)

And this is all connected to your audio system with these connectors:
# Analogue Stereo Input
# Analogue Stereo Output
# SPDIF optical & coaxial Output

The Hifidelio looks like a great addition to any entertainment system.


Posted by: Jethro | 9:23 AM |