July 18, 2007

Arcam’s Music Server For Music Lovers July 18, 2007

Read more Digital Audio , Hi-fi , MP3 , Music , Storage

Audiophiles still clinging feverishly to their vinyl LPs and lovingly polished CDs as the world goes MP3 mad will be heartened to know that Arcam has felt your fear and created a solution.

The high-end audio specialist thinks that its new 400GB music server might just be the thing to help you make that digital jump without polluting your ears. For the rest of us normal folk, Arcam’s 400GB FMJ MS250 music server is a potential solution to the CD clutter found in most of our homes.

Inside the server is a high end CD player that can play as it rips your fave Nana Mouskouri CDs. The whopping 400GB drive can store around 80,000 tunes – that’s 640 uncompressed CDs or 4,800 compressed CDs. On the quality front, Arcam sees this device as a high-end CD player first and there’s a special Arcam custom-designed sound card to ensure the best playback.

There’s an Ethernet port for hooking up to PCs or the Internet, a USB port for plugging in MP3 players and plenty of other audio connections to boot. With a clean, uncluttered design the FMJ MS250 is a good looking piece of kit but with the £3,000 price tag, this will probably only appeal to the most serious of music lovers. Jump now for another shot.

If you like Arcam but are working with a significantly smaller budget, then you might want to check out its £130 iPod dock.-Martin Lynch

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