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April 4, 2008 5:28 AM PDT

Need to manage 25,000 CDs? No problem

by Mike Yamamoto
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(Credit: Qsonix)

Qsonix is a company that doesn't believe in doing anything small. Its original touch-screen media system, for example, was the first we'd seen that stores a terabyte of music while controlling four zones throughout the house independently with their own songs and settings.

And now it's gotten even bigger, with a new 17-inch screen (the previous one was 15 inches) and an additional 500GB of storage. That's right: Up to 1.5 terabytes of media, which translates to 4,000 CDs or 25,000 when compressed, according to Electronic House. Also available is software updated with new features, such as the option to burn and play back CDs simulateously, for free--which is a good thing, because the last version cost up to $7,795.

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by kingrah1 April 7, 2008 10:16 AM PDT
Way too expensive for just a cdplayer-maybe if it had upconversion??

it better have an option of networking and remote access too
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by cyberDJ-2038765336053745013836 April 7, 2008 2:27 PM PDT
1.5 TB? That's all?

I can build a 4 TB media server with a touchscreen for under 2 Gs.
With 4 TB, I can hold 10,000 CDs WITHOUT compression.

Nice try, guys
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by Raymond Lui April 7, 2008 9:13 PM PDT
What's so special?

iTunes and a couple of large capacity hard drive.

Good to go.
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