GIGA JUKE by Sony With Integrated Hard Disk Drive

Music
storage made simple, without the need for a PC – that’s what Sony’s
GIGA JUKE systems are all about. And the new NAS-E35HD and NAS-SC55PKE
systems make GIGA JUKE more flexible than ever.

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Both systems have hard disk storage and high-speed copying
from their built-in CD player to the HDD, and both have radio tuners
and a dock for iPod, meaning you can store all your digital tunes – and
the rest of your music collection – in superb quality, and enjoy it
whether you’re relaxing at home or out and about.

The entry-level NAS-E35HD system brings all this flexibility
to a highly affordable price-point, while the NAS-SC55PKE is a complete
multi-room system of music server and wireless player unit, able to
deliver music to up to five zones – wirelessly. It can fill your entire
home with music.

The
GIGA JUKE stores, labels, and organizes your music in its internal Hard
Disk Drive using unique intelligent software. When you’re ready to go
on the move, it’s easy to release your music: GIGA JUKE can transfer
your favourite tunes directly to your WALKMAN, WALKMAN phone or other
portable audio players – no PC needed.

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Store Your Music
The NAS-SC55PKE is a complete multi-room
music system, able to store up to 40,000 songs, ripped at up to 16x
speed, so a 60-minute CD can be copied in less than 4 minutes. It can
also transfer files to portable players at up to 50x speed.

Thanks to its choice of Linear PCM, MP3, Window Media Audio or ATRAC
compatibility, the system can store a massive music collection, whether
it’s from CD, radio, external sources such as vinyl, or a home PC.
Automatic title labelling is provided using Gracenote’s music
recognition technology and database, containing music data for
approximately 350,000 albums. The ‘finger print recognition’ even
analyses the character of tracks recorded from LP or any other analogue
source, and tags the track/artist data from the built-in database.

Room2Room
On top of this “Digital Jukebox” solution, this GIGA JUKE can deliver
music wirelessly to up to five client players (one is included in the
package). Wherever you are in your home, you can access the main server
from the wireless players, and even listen to different songs in each
of the five zones. When you’re having a party with your friends, just
press the “Party Mode” button, and every room with a wireless player
will play the same music at the same time.

The
system comprises the NAS-S55HDE main unit – combining HDD storage, CD
player, FM/AM tuner (with DAB on UK models), and 4.3inch full-colour
display – and the NAS-C5E wireless player, which has integral
amplification and speakers and can be used to access the NAS-S55HDE
wirelessly from anywhere in the house. It is also available separately,
allowing upgraders to enjoy full multi-room around the house. This
NAS-C5E is also equipped with internet radio.

The system comprises the NAS-S55HDE main unit – combining HDD storage,
CD player, FM/AM tuner (with DAB on UK models), and 4.3inch full-colour
display – and the NAS-C5E wireless player, which has integral
amplification and speakers and can be used to access the NAS-S55HDE
wirelessly from anywhere in the house. It is also available separately,
allowing upgraders to enjoy full multi-room around the house. This
NAS-C5E is also equipped with internet radio.

With up to five wireless players able to be used
simultaneously, and the main system having its own speakers, the
NAS-SC55PKE is an instant, and expandable, multi-room system. Setting
up the wireless connection around the house is both quick and easy,
thanks to Sony’s unique, user-friendly instant wireless set-up (S-IWS)
system, which works as soon as each unit is turned on. This GIGA JUKE
is also DLNA certified for both the server and wireless player, so you
can even enjoy streaming music from/to PC or any other DLNA-compatible
products wirelessly.

Organize and Enjoy Your Music
Once you’ve loaded the
GIGA JUKE NAS-SC55PKE with all your music, it comes into its own as the
ultimate home ‘jukebox’. The x-DJ feature intelligently analyzes tracks
to categorize your music library into 27 different channels to suit any
occasion – like ‘good morning’ for waking up, ‘party time’ for
socializing, and ‘slow life’ to chill out in the evening. While a song
is playing you can also ‘surf’ through tracks stored on the HDD at the
touch of a button.

Choose ‘artist’ in Music Surfin’ mode and GIGA JUKE will pull
all tracks from the same artist into a playlist. Similarly, choosing
‘year’ will search for all tracks released in the same era and ‘mood’
will look for all tracks with the same musical taste.

If
you want to hear your favourite radio shows again and again, the GIGA
JUKE systems can also record radio programs from its tuner into its
Hard Disk Drive with the timer function, while the NAS-SC55PKE system
can even separate talk and music automatically using Sony’s unique “12
Tone Analysis” technology. UK versions also have a DAB tuner.

The
main system has 100W of award-winning S-MASTER digital amplification,
and comes complete with sleek two-way speakers with soft dome tweeter
for precise mid-high frequencies and Resonant Bass Duct for powerful
and rich bass sound. Meanwhile the wireless player has a wooden cabinet
for natural sound, 20W amplification and built-in stereo speakers with
Long Stroke Duct for powerful bass, so you can enjoy your digital music
in stunning hi-fi quality sound all around the house.

Release Your Music
It’s
also quick and easy to release your music when you want to take your
favorite tunes out with you. At the touch of a button, single tracks
or whole albums can be copied from the GIGA JUKE hard disk to a
connected personal audio, such as WALKMAN, WALKMAN phone, PlayStation
Portable, MP3 players and USB storage devices at up to 50x speed –
that’s 74 minutes of music in just 90 seconds.

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