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Linn Sneaky DS (Silver or Black)
1TB RipNas Secure CD Ripping NAS Drive
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At last, enjoy genuine audiophile performance from digital music around your home.
Key Features
Plays music stored on your hard-drive or NAS (Network Attached Storage)
Plays FLAC, WAV and MP3 audio formats with up to 24-bit / 192 kHz native sample rate
Access to SHOUTcast Internet radio
On-board volume control and power amplification (20 W)
Linn GUI (Graphical User Interface) software compatible with PC and UMPC (Ultra Mobile PC)
Standard Ethernet input for audio and control
Compatible with UPnP media servers and UPnP AV 1.0 control points
Can be positioned either horizontally or vertically
PC-based music players have considerable plus points - the simple connectivity, ease of use and fast access to your music collection. However, until now the audio performance has failed to inspire.
Sneaky Music DS means you no longer have to compromise performance for convenience. With an unrivalled hi-fi heritage, Sneaky Music DS combines genuine audiophile performance with all the convenience of a typical PC-based system, making it the perfect networked music solution.
Sneaky DS streams audio files from a central location and converts them to music. On-board pre- and power amplification makes it a compact and discreet unit. Simply connect it to your home network and add loudspeakers to enjoy unprecedented musical clarity from your digital music.
With your digital music collection stored in one place, ready to be heard at full quality, you wont miss a note. Enjoy your CD collection as never before. It also supports both the highest quality and most widely used download formats, as well as a wide range of Internet radio stations.
Whats more, you are entirely free to choose the control solution that best meets your requirements. Whether you use a touch screen, remote control, PC or even your mobile phone, youll get instant access to your entire music collection at the touch of a button.
Want to enjoy your digital music collection at the same superb quality throughout your home? Simply expand your system by adding a Sneaky Music DS and loudspeakers wherever you want to listen. You can even add Sneaky to other network music players already installed in your home, to create a mixed multi-room system.
Your entire music collection can of course still be accessed simultaneously and independently in any room within a multi-room system. You can even use the same controller for every room in your home.
Your Linn DS system can be kept up to date with the latest features and formats via a simple software upgrade.
Technical Specifications
Date of introduction: March 2008
Type: Network music player
Dimensions: (H) 44.5 mm x (W) 345 mm x (D) 274 mm
(H) 1.8 inches x (W) 13.6 inches x (D) 10.8 inches
(can be positioned horizontally or vertically)
Weight: 2.7 kg / 6 lb
Mains supply voltage: 100 120 V ac (±10%) 50 60 Hz
(auto ranging) 200 240 V ac (±10%) 50 60 Hz
Fuse: 250 V, T1.6 A (not user replaceable)
Power consumption Standby: 10 W
Power consumption Operational: 14 W
maximum continuous 120 W
Supported file type: s WAV, FLAC, MP3
Audio sample rates: 7.35 k, 8 k, 11.025 k, 12 k, 14.7 k, 16 k, 22.05 k, 24 k,
29.4 k, 32 k, 44.1 k, 48 k, 88.2 k, 96 k, 176.4 k, 192 k
Word depths: 16 24 bits
Ethernet interface: 100Base-T RJ45
Control protocol: Compatible with UPnP media servers,
UPnP AV 1.0 control points
Local control: RS232 x 2 RJ11
Remote controllable (handset not supplied)
Connector types :
optical digital output TOSLINK
coaxial digital output RCA phono
line outputs RCA phono
speaker outputs Inverted safety 4 mm BFA sockets
Output impedance:
line outputs 300 Ω
speaker outputs 0.06 Ω
Output voltage :
line outputs 2.8 V peak, 2 V rms (0 dBFS)
speaker outputs 15 V peak, 10 V rms (0 dBFS, 16.6 dB gain, vol. 79)
Output offset :
line outputs < 2 mV
speaker outputs < 3 Mv
Signal to noise ratio :
line outputs Better than -120 dB
Channel balance: Better than +/- 0.2 dB
Channel separation:
line outputs Better than -120 dB
speaker outputs Better than -100 dB
Gain range: -80 dB to +20 dB
Gain resolution: 1 dB
Unity gain volume: 0 dB = volume 80
Dynamic range: 120 dB
Damping factor: 67
Signal level for clipping: 415 mV rms (0 dBFS, +16.6 dB gain, vol. 79)
Harmonic distortion: < 0.03% at 1 kHz at 10 W
Load tolerance: Unconditionally stable into all loudspeaker loads
Frequency response:
pre-amp 2.5 Hz 170 kHz (-3 dB)
power amp 2.5 Hz 48 kHz (-3 dB)
Speaker output voltage: 15 V peak
Speaker output power: 20 W into 4 Ω
Warranty:
2 year full Warranty + 3 years parts only warranty if product is regisitered with Linn Products within 30days of purchase.
RipNAS Secure Base System - RIPNAS-640-S
Easier than 1 2 3, RipNAS manages CD Ripping in just 1 step Insert Audio CD, metadata is retrieved from 4 metadata providers (AMG, GD3, MusicBrainz, freedb) with quality album art, spelling mistakes are automatically corrected using PerfectMeta. CD is ripped using the respected dBpoweramp ripping engine to a lossless format of choice, audio files are automatically shared for streaming. Around 3-4 minutes later the CD is ejected, ready for the next disc.
Secure RipNAS
Secure RipNAS models feature Secure Ripping abilities - the process of ripping audio CDs without errors. Errors whilst ripping manifest as either pops, clicks, or extended periods of silence (where the CD drive has substituted the error with silence), rips with errors are sub-optimal. Secure ripping is different, errors are detected, potentially recovered and unrecoverable tracks are separated out, the last thing your speakers need are tracks with speaker damaging pops and clicks.
RipNAS Drive Quality
Much attention to detail has gone into the component selection for RipNAS, one important component is the DVD drive - quality of rips depend on the drives ability to read audio without errors. Many in our position might have selected the cheapest drive...not Illustrate, we tested all the main drives on the market.
The following link covers the testing and results from each drive tested: http://forum.dbpoweramp.com/showthread.php?t=17274
When compared against a high end $5,000 CD player, which would give the better quality audio (as measured as not containing errors): RipNAS Secure, or high end CD player? RipNAS Secure would give better results in that CD players are time based and have to deliver audio on demand, this very design results in insecure reproductions, an on demand player is unable to recover errors by re-reading many times.
TECHNOLOGIES EMPLOYED
AccurateRip - AccurateRip helps enormously with secure ripping, your CD rip is compared to an independently ripped disc (different drive, different CD - no 2 discs would have the same scratch), matching the results with AccurateRip guarantee a secure rip.
C2 Error Pointers - The Teac drive was specifically chosen for its implementation of C2 pointers. C2 error pointers allow the CD drive to inform the RipNAS when a section of audio contains an error.
Re-Reading - CD is read twice, if a section contains an error it will likely return different errors, so can be detected. This is true mostly but not always, consistent errors exist (where the same error is read consistently).
Perfect Partners
Linn DS
Sonos
Logitech Squeezebox (Duet, SB3, Transporter etc)
uPNP (DLNA Compatible devices)
iTunes
DAAP
TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS
Base Storage Capacity**:
320GB (1x320GB)
640GB (2x320GB)
1TB (2x500GB)
Audio Encoders:
FLAC (default: lossless)
Apple Lossless
WMA Lossless
mp3 (Lame)
Music Services:
SqueezeCenter (Logitech)
SMB / CIFS (Sonos etc)
iTunes (Apple)
uPNP (100's of devices)
Metadata:
AMG
GD3
MusicBrainz & freedb (for product life-time)
Optical Drive: Teac Slot Loading DVD/CD
Secure Rip Model: AccurateRip & c2 pointers
Rear: 4x USB v2.0, 10/100/1000++ Network
Colors: Silver/White, or Black
Memory: 1GB / 2GB (secure model)
CPU: Intel Atom 1.6 GHz [dual core]++
Environmental: 16 - 19 dBA (fan-less design)
Size: 24 x 25 x 8.9 cm
Weight: 5 KG
Construction: Aluminium, Steel, Acrylic
Power: 110VAC - 240AVC, 20W idle usage
Warranty: 1 year RTB
In The Box
RipNAS (ready to work)
Mains PSU (5A 12V DC 60W)
Network Cable
Manual
Software CD/DVDs
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