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:

• The MAN301 Base Station as pictured above

• 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.

• An iPad device (not included in price) with the Weiss app for remote control of the Base Station.

• 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

The iPAD remote control with its two main pages: