Escient Fireball

The Escient Fireball SE-160i and SE-500i are single source, 160GB or 500GB hard disc based music servers that you can use to store and play your whole music collection. It has an extremely easy to use on-screen interface, automatic disc recognition, built-in CD-RW drive Internet radio, and many more features.

Escient is a D&M (Denon and Marantz) owned company and this quality shows through in the build of the Escient Fireball.

CD tracks are automatically listed, and album cover art retrieved, via the built-in Internet connection. Listings are displayed on your TV, your PC or your PDA (the latter allowing remote control using any pocket sized web enabled device).

Specification Escient Fireball SE-160i/SE-500i

• Music Server Features
  • 160GB or 500GB internal hard drive for storing digital music files
  • Built-in CD-RW drive for playing, burning and ripping CDs.
  • Automatic CD identification using Gracenote CDDB® & cover art provided by AMG
  • PC File Sharing for transferring music files to and from a PC or Mac (includes support for iPod, and other portable players)
  • Gapless playback feature for classical and live recordings
  • Create custom playlists and genres
  • Supports CD-audio, MP3, WMA, FLAC
  • Music capacity: FLAC - 453 hours depending on music, MP3 - 1078 to 2695 hours depending on quality, ie bit rate (320 to 128 shown)
  
• Interface and Control Features
  • Simple and intuitive on-screen user interface for browsing, selecting, and playing music, Shoutcast Internet radio stations and for all system configuration and setup functions
  • Web interface for remote control and music streaming via any standard web browser
  • PDA interface for controlling FireBall from any pocket sized web enabled device
  • Keypad friendly IR based control allows instant access to any playlist, genre, artist, album, song title or Internet radio station using IR macros
  • Customizable User Interface skins
  • Play CD direct from the CD loading tray if required
• Connections
  • Analogue line level stereo audio via RCA phono
  • Digital audio via optical (TOSLINK)
  • Video output: composite video, S-video and component video (3 x RCA phono)
  • RS232
  • Ethernet RJ45
  • IR input: 3.5mm jack plug
  
• Minimum System Requirements
  • TV or other video display device
• Package includes
  • Escient Fireball SE-160i/SE-500i
  • IR Remote
  • A/V cables
  • Ethernet cable
  • Power cord
  • Instruction manual
• General
  • Dimensions W x D x H mm 440 x 302 x 117.5

Click here for user manual(PDF: 3607Kb)

Click here for specification leaflet(PDF: 842Kb)