Multiroom Audio

The Sekrit DS-I is the perfect introduction to the world of high quality digital music streaming from the audio experts at Linn. The Sekrit DS-I is perfect for rooms where only the exceptional audio performance should be on show.

A simple compact unit houses a Linn DS player, integrated pre-amplifier and 70W power amplifier all in one box, letting you enjoy the highest quality audio formats and hear your CD collection as never before from a completely hidden system.

With digital and analogue input connections, you can not only enjoy improved audio from your playlists, internet radio, podcasts and iTunes content, but also from connected sources such as your TV, games console or Blu-ray player.

Sekrit DS-I can be installed alongside any Linn DS player within a Linn DS Multiroom system. Share whatever you’re listening to across all Linn DS players in the home using Songcast – a feature which lets you stream perfectly synchronised audio around your home at exceptional quality.

The incredible flexibility of Linn DS Multiroom means that you can build your music system around your life as your needs change. Add rooms or upgrade performance over time, improving the sound quality of individual rooms or taking advantage of the elegant styling of more visible Linn components.  The new Kinsky app for the iPad gives fantastic control over the system, whether it's a single room or a multiroom audio system.

Brilliant have the Linn Sekrit DS-I on demonstration now.  If you'd like to have a listen call on 01845 525664

The Sonos Multi-Room Music System lets you play all the music you want, all over your house and control it all from the palm of your hand. With wireless ZonePlayers in the rooms of your choice and a Sonos Controller in hand, you can add music to every part of your life and every room in your house.

Sonos gives you instant access to millions of songs and stations — including music files stored on your computer, thousands of free Internet radio stations, and the most popular online music services. Simply grab a Controller and pick a room, pick a song and touch play.

Enjoy a personalized music experience in every room with Last.fm and Sonos. Last.fm is a global music service that lets you play, share and discover new music. You can also create personal radio stations based on your musical tastes. Just pick up your Sonos Controller and enter the name of your favorite artist or genre and Last.fm will play radio customized just for you. The more you listen, the more Last.fm learns what you like so it can continually recommend new tracks and stations. With Last.fm and Sonos you’ll have hours upon hours of music available all over the house.

Control4 is a poweful automation platform with a simple user interface and we use it for automating houses of all sizes.  One of the features built into even the smallest Control4 processor is the ability to stream music as part of a multiroom audio system.

Control4 allows you to access music anywhere on your network and play it back in each zone of your system.  The user interface allows browsing by artist, genre, playlist and cover art.  The flexibility of Control4 means that the user can do this on the SR250 remote control, the On-screen display, the new Infinity Edge touchpanels or even using the iPhone, iPod touch or iPad interfaces.

Music can be stored anywhere on the network without the need for a dedicated music server.  Brilliant typically uses high quality Network Attached Storage (NAS) drives from suppliers like Thecus but music on any network share can be catalogued and added to the system.  The Control4 Composer Media Edition which which we supply as part of every install allows our clients to manage their digital collections through a simple PC interface.

While it's best known as a Movie Server, Kaleidescape is also a great music server platform for multiroom audio.

With the huge storage capacity of the Kaleidescape system there's plenty of room for really large music collections.  Kaleidescape's data services look up information for each CD loaded and the Album and Artist reviews and high quality Cover Art interface make browsing the system a joy.  Classical music is handled well with the ability to view composers, performances and ensembles.  Mix Albums can be created on the fly and the whole system has the typically polished feel you get from Kaleidescape.  Plus, of course, the music is stored uncompressed so there's no trade off in quality for convenience.

Our AMX and Control4 interfaces make playing the music you want easy and fun.  Remotescape for the iPod touch and iPhone add another dimension bringing the same ease of use to iPhone and iPod users.

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