Finally,
Sony is stepping up the mini-stereo concept
nearly into the year 2007 with its latest offerings, the NAS-D55HD, NAS-M75HD, and NAS-M95HD hard drive-based sound machines. The new models offer a number of "digital age" conveniences, like the ability to rip CDs or MDs directly to the hard drive, a nice big LCD screen, two USB ports for connecting to your computer and / or favorite media player, and ethernet jacks for incorporating the stereo into a network. The models come in 80GB or 250GB varieties, with either a "digital amplifier" (the NAS-D55HD) or a "full digital S-Master" amp (NAS-M75HD, NAS-M95HD), and 20- or 26-watts of raw, bone-crushing power per channel. Sony has also introduced the NAS-C5, apparently a wireless "hub," which can connect to the new audio systems (amongst other Sony products) to distribute their playback to varying sets of speakers. The stereos are going to available October 20th and November 10th for ¥60,000 to ¥120,000 ($530-1100), and the NAS-C5 will be available on November 21st for ¥30,000 (or around $260).
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posted Sep 11th 2007 10:11AM
Barbie sold separately.
...because the HD in EngadgetHD stands for Hard Drive....
sony is so foolish, who would buy this when their computer with Windows Media Player / iTunes already does this. Stick to speakers sony, these products are useless1
Actually Sony is quite smart. A lot of people have been wanting something like this in order to enjoy the mp3's on their computer on a hard drive based stereo. It is very convenient since you can just transfer your mp3s to the hard drive on this pc and share them everywhere you go. I don't know why it took so long for such and idea to come into a real product. There are other hard drive based receivers or streamers which try and play your mp3s throughout the house and they do a poor job meanwhile this can take your mp3s anywhere. *Bangs head* Why didnt i put this idea from paper to product years ago.
That depends, just because a computer can do it doesn't mean a given user wants to go that way.