One of the leaders in digital entertainment, Pioneer Electronics Inc (USA) has announced the launch of two Music Tap systems, which are networked AirPlay music systems. These two systems are available under the Pioneer and Elite brands, which allows music lovers to enjoy and access their music at any location in their house, regardless of how or where their music has been stored. AirPlay is basically an Apple developed technology that lets you stream music wirelessly or via Ethernet connections. Both Music Tap systems come with integrated Wi Fi, DLNA 1.5, AirJam app and 1.5 vTuner Internet radio.
What’s inside:
Both the Music Tap feature integrated Wi Fi ready for wireless network as soon as you take them out from the box. This system enables users to easily enjoy their music with the song information and album art displayed at the same time on the connected 2.5″ full color LCD screen. If Internet is your primary source of music, Music Tap also has Support for Internet radio for you to browse Pandora, iHeartRadio, and other music streaming apps.
With the help of Music Tapâs Lossless capability, users enjoy the highest degree of audio quality without any sort of degradation in sound quality. Music Tap also ensures users to browse their iTunes music library on their MAC or PC through Appleâs Remote app on iPod Touch, iPad or iPhone.
Features:
a. DLNA 1.5 certified:
Through DLNA 1.5 certification, users can wirelessly stream their music via a home network through any certified DLNA 1.5 device. With the support of WAV and FLAC files from a DLNA certified network at home, users can easily enjoy brilliant high resolution audio playback.
b. vTuner:
For endless music entertainment, Pioneer has added vTuner Internet radio to Music Tap. It helps users access to 16,000+ Internet radio stations throughout the world. Users can also search for different genres and stations from the screen display.
c. Air Jam:
The Air Jam app is also available on Music Tap system. It allows users to bond up to four Apple gadgets through Bluetooth to form a shared list for playback. As a result, each user can cue songs from their own music libraries to create the collective playlist.
Functionality:
a. These Music Tap systems are made for iPods and iPads, and have a cleverly hidden dock for charging and playback.
b. A two channel digital loudspeaker delivers powerful and clear audio to any room, which ensures excellent listening experience. Two full range drivers help produce clean and crisp high frequencies and accurate, deep bass. Apart from the above, TAD director of speaker engineering has tuned the Pioneer Elite version, and also includes built in Bluetooth functionality. It also offers a two year warranty.
c. Both the Music Tap systems have an auxiliary input for connecting to other devices. They also feature a USB port for connecting to other external drives, such as hard drives, flash and thumb drives with WAV, WMA, MP3, LPCM and FLAC files.
Price:
The Pioneer Music Tap systems will be released to the general public in October 2011. The standard version of Pioneer Music Tab will be available for $ 399 and the Elite model for $ 479.
