Tech Shout!

Hard disc based music storage devices have been around for what seems like ages, but few actually offer a solution quite as sleek and integrated as the Sooloos Music system. According to Sooloos website isn’t just a product, but a system which is designed with your needs in mind- whether you have a one-room apartment or a thirty-room mansion, a hundred albums or tens of thousands.

With the Sooloos Music System, you get to store your music collection in noisless convection colled RAID type servers that come in 1, 2 and 3 TB versions. You also have the option to link storage units to provide additional capacity. This will give you the ability to store lossless digital versions of your music.

You can then distribute this music in up to 32 different zones, and control it via a master 17-inch touch screen, and any number of smaller 7-inch remotes.

The product details of the Sooloos Music System are as follows:

Touch control devices provide a uniquely engaging means of interacting with your music

Intuitive graphical interface allows for easy management of huge music libraries

Extensive album, performer, genre and related metadata, including high resolution cover art

Audio circuitry is based on the same designs used in professional recording studios

Audio is losslessly encoded, ensuring bit-for-bit accuracy to the source material

All components are fanless and use virtually no moving parts, for near-silent operation

Expandable to allow tens of thousands of albums of CD-quality audio in up to 32 zones

All audio storage is mirrored, ensuring zero downtime in the event of disk failure

Using a PC, you can effortlessly transfer music from your Sooloos system to your iPod

Control Sooloos with the most popular home control systems, including Crestron and AMX

But here’s the twist: they offer to send the system pre-loaded with music for you. They probably don’t encourage piracy of music. Your Sooloos music system will be preloaded with music, album artwork and line notes. From there they can provide subscriptions to keep you up to date with the latest releases, and genre based packages to fill holes in your existing collection.

But if you are a true and ardent music enthusiast, and of course if you have loads of money to spare, then nothing can stop you from getting yourself the Sooloos music system, which costs a whopping $12,000.