Enjoy music throughout the entire home or in just the room you choose with Total Home Technology distributed audio. Experience a movie with digital surround sound. Listen to your jazz CDs while you read in the den while the kids play video games in the media room and your spouse listens to the radio on the terrace. Control the music of your life from any room in the house – no need to walk to the stereo to choose a component, select a CD, change tracks or adjust volume. Relax. You deserve it. With items such as Crestron's CNX-BIPAD8 shown to the left, you can have up to  16 audio sources routed to 32 audio zones using 3 CNX-BIPAD's.

Adagio Audio Server

As the centerpiece for any home audio system, the Adagio Audio Server (AAS) provides an easy, powerful way to store and enjoy your complete music collection, with the ability to instantly access any album or track from touch panels, keypads and computers throughout the home.

Instant Access
The AAS Audio Server is a hard disk based audio system which can store many hundreds of hours of music, all with the convenience of instant access from its front panel, from a computer, or from Crestron touch panels and keypads. Whether you select a track by title, album, artist, or genre, the AAS locates it instantly and plays it at your command. And with internal hard drives up to 250GB, literally thousands of hours worth of music can be stored.

On-Screen Menu
Browsing through albums and tracks, ripping CDs, and organizing a complete music library is fun and easy using the onscreen menu (OSM). Displayed on a video or SVGA monitor, the OSM shows full album, track, and artist names as well as album cover art, letting you manage and play the entire music library using the front panel controls or IR remote. The same OSM can be viewed and navigated using any computer Web browser (Macromedia® Flash® required), or even a Crestron touch panel as part of a complete control system.

Easy Loading
Loading an entire CD collection onto the AAS is easy. Just place a CD into the disk tray, and the AAS rips it to digital in less time than it would take to play it. Then, the AAS automatically connects to the Gracenote CDDB Music Recognition Service via an Internet connection, downloading all of the information and cover art graphics for that CD. This information can also be entered manually, building a complete database for the entire music library.

Custom Playlists
The AAS lets you organize and control your music collection the way you want it. Using playlists, the AAS can be customized to suit the individual tastes of each family member, with the ability to compile different playlists for different moods and occasions. At any time, just select a playlist and let the AAS be the DJ, serving up a perfect mix of music from the list of tracks that you specified.

Multi-Zone Outputs
With up to 4 stereo outputs, the AAS is a vital component of any multi-room audio distribution system. The discrete outputs allow up to four different tracks to play in four different rooms at once. Professional quality features ensure exceptional audio quality in every room.

Plug-and-Play Integration
The AAS affords easy plug-and-play setup as part of a complete Adagio system. Without any programming, Adagio delivers full access and control of the AAS from every room in the house. The AAS can also be integrated with other systems, with control provided via Ethernet or IR.

Computer Access
The AAS even lets you listen to your music directly on any computer and transfer tracks to portable devices using applications such as Windows Media® Player or Apple® iTunes®. Connected to your home LAN, the AAS simply behaves as a network drive allowing for easy file management.

NAS Support*
For those music fans with immense amounts of music, or audiophiles who accept nothing less than full lossless quality, the AAS allows for increased storage capacity using NAS (Network Attached Storage) solutions available from a variety of manufactures.

 

 

 

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The IMS is the brains of iQ.

The Intelligent Media Server controls the entire iQ System. The 4 built-in hard disk sources allow the true flexibility necessary for whole house control. The jazz party in the den never needs to know about the rock fest out by the pool thanks to the intuitive distribution of control via in-wall, table top, networked, and wireless touch panels.

In addition to the 4 hard disk sources, iQ now includes 2 internet streaming sources, extending your music collection to near infinite size. With the Serial Cable Kit, you can also control into AM, FM, and XM radio the same way you use the radio in your car.

The iQ.NIRE introduces a whole new world of control to your system. Now cable and satellite based music channels are within your reach as well as all your legacy devices, CD an DVD players.

Your iQ Web server provides easy access at home and abroad. Stream music to any home networked computer or listen over the internet at work. Coupled with NetSync for iTunes, there's practically nowhere your music collection can't accompany you.

As if that isn't enough, iQ Widgets allow you to view weather, stocks, webcams, and more on any touch screen in the house.

iQ - More than music