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High
End
Music Archive Network Player
The MAN301 is
a system for music archiving, music library maintenance, music
playback, CD ripping, Internet radio streaming and more.
The MAN301 comes in two versions, the
"DAC" version includes a D/A Converter (the MAN301DAC), the
"SERVER" version has digital outputs only for connecting an
external D/A Converter (the MAN301SERVER). The SERVER version can
be user upgraded to the DAC version at any time.
A complete MAN301
system consists of:
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The MAN301
Base Station as pictured above
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An external
NAS (Network Attached Storage) device, typically a hard disk or
an array of hard disks. This allows for virtually unlimited
storage space for music files.
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An iPad device
(not included in price) with the Weiss app for remote control of
the Base Station.
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A means of accessing the Internet by
the Base Station for fetching CD cover art and CD metadata.
Features:
- External music
storage on a NAS (Network Attached Storage) device or USB
device, no internal storage for music files. Recommendations for
suitable NAS devices are supplied
- Remote control via an Apple iPad, no
keyboard, mouse, monitor required
- Digital inputs for external audio sources: AES/EBU or S/PDIF on XLR, RCA, TOSLINK
- Digital outputs to external D/A Converters: AES/EBU on XLR and RCA, FireWire, USB
- DAC Version: Analog outputs on XLR and RCA
- DAC Version: The built-in D/A converter is
of similar design to our renowned DAC202 unit
- Wordclock input and output on BNC for
synchronization
- Ethernet for connecting to NAS, local
network
- WiFi antenna for connecting to iPad, local
network
- Typical setups: 1) MAN301 connected directly
to the NAS and iPad, in addition (optionally) to the in-house
WiFi for Internet access. 2) MAN301, NAS, iPad connected to a
WiFi Router.
- Multiple MAN301 devices can be controlled
from within a single iPad
- Multiple users per MAN301 device are
supported, each with his/her own music library, playlists,
searches etc.
- Multiple NAS
units can be added to the library for unlimited storage
- All common audio file formats (uncompressed,
lossless compressed, lossy compressed) are supported for
playback and ripping
- Up to 192kHz /
32bit supported
- Music library
displayed according to album names, artist names, genres,
recently played, recently added
- Powerful search facility, allows to store
searches which result in dynamic playlists
- Playlists are easily added, edited and can
be set safe
- Volume control
in 4 coarse analog steps and with a high resolution, dithered
digital fader
- Start, stop,
skip, back controls
- Repeat single track or repeat whole playlist
function
- powerful cover art search algorithm which
allows the user to select the most appropriate cover art out of
an intelligent pre-selection
- CD metadata fetching from various databases
- Comprehensive user interface on iPad, easily
to be handled even by computer novices
- Software
upgradeable via Internet
- Internet radio
streaming
- Future software upgrades will include
various DSP facilities

MAN301
back view (full version w/ DAC)
The iPAD remote control with its two main pages:


Specifications subject to change without
notice
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