Do you CONNECT with Music?
Digital Audio used to be easy: just buy a new CD and pop it into your CD player!
Streaming Audio used to be easy, too: just turn the dial on on your radio!
But the options today are myriad and complex. Luckily we’re experts at this, so we can help you decide what systems are best for you. We have exceptional CD Players for those that prefer the Old-School method of popping a disc in the machine. We carry an array of CD Rippers and Music Servers for those of you with a large CD library (and Video Servers for those with large DVD & BluRay collections) but prefer the convenience of a centralized library. We demonstrate a wide variety of Streaming Players that allow access to dozens of audio and video streaming services. And of course we have the best selection of Digital-to-Analog Converters to get all those “ones-and-zeros” into your stereo system!
Visit our Showrooms to Connect with Music!
Berkeley Alpha DAC Reference Series 3 digital-to-analog converter
BERKELEY AUDIO DESIGN
This small, highly focused firm only offers a few models, but each one is regularly rated as among the best values in modern high end audio. Berkeley Audio Design offers uncompromising, state of the art digital converters for fans listening to any of the myriad digital sources on the market. Compact discs, stored digital music files, Internet-based streaming services, cable TV, and other sources can all bring music to us, but many of them are highly compromised in terms of quality of sound. Let a Berkeley Digital-to-Analog Converter raise the performance of your digital music sources to the level of the best studio recordings. Now on display.
Bluesound Vault CD ripper & music server
BLUESOUND
Bluesound is an award-winning wireless hi-res sound system that lets you play music in any and every room throughout your home. Choose music from your favorite streaming service or from a music library connected to your home network. Control where, at what volume, and when music plays with a free BluOS app for your smartphone, tablet, or desktop computer. Getting the kind of crisp and detailed sound that only an audiophile-grade system can deliver has never been easier.
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dCS Varèse Music System digital-to-analog converter
dCS AUDIO
Founded in 1987, dCS Audio has spent decades redefining the boundaries of digital audio, developing a succession of pioneering products and technologies that present sound with every last nuance intact. Each one of their systems — from the entry level Lina through the Bartok Apex, Rossini Apex, Vivaldi Apex, and their latest ultimate Varèse Music System — is designed and hand-assembled in house, in Cambridge, England, by their world-class team of designers, engineers and technicians: an extraordinary group of people who are united by a passion for music and an unwavering commitment to mastery of their field.
Come to INNOVATIVE to experience Only the Music.
Kaleidescape 4K UHD video server
KALEIDESCAPE
Technology developed during the past few years has profoundly changed what is possible in a home cinema. The new generation of surround sound and object-based soundtracks, powered by modern sound processing equipment, together with true 4K Ultra HD video with high dynamic range, create an immersive experience that isn’t even possible in your neighborhood movie theater. Finally, the critical element, the content source that makes it all possible: Kaleidescape‘s video servers and video download service.
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Linn Selekt DSM digital music player
LINN
Information lost at the source is lost forever. No matter how good the amplifiers or loudspeakers that follow, you can't get back what has already been lost, so it’s essential you put the best source possible at the front of your system.
Putting a Linn source at the heart will improve the sound of any system. The ideal first step is a Linn DSM network music player, capable of streaming music in the highest quality and optimising your system for your room and speaker placement, no matter what speakers you currently own.
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MSB Select digital-to-analog converter with Dual Powerbase power supply
MSB
MSB based in Silicon Valley, California has been designing Digital-to-Analog Converters for more than 25 years. Now, more than ever, their product range has the most flexible architecture yet. A modular design allows myriad configurations to ensure the DAC is configured exactly how you need it.
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NAD M10 Master-Series integrated amplifier with built-in network streaming
NAD
NAD makes a wide range of high-value Digital-to-Analog Converters, Music Streamers, and Digital Pre-amplifiers.
The audio world has shifted. Where once available solely on discs, the best quality of music is now delivered over the internet. Not only does it sound better, but entire catalogues of recorded music are more accessible than ever before. Curated playlists make music selection and discovery easy and fun, while multi-room wireless audio multiplies the possibilities. The NAD Masters M10 combines all of this goodness with state-of-the-art amplification to make it an all-in-one solution that will transport you to your favorite musical destination.
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Naim ND 555 Reference Music Streamer
Naim
Naim makes a wide variety of the world’s finest Streaming Music and Multiroom Audio players.
Their ND 555, NSS 333, NDX 2, and ND5 XS2 separate-component digital music players offer the pinnacle of performance with digital convenience and control.Their Uniti Atom, Uniti Star, Uniti Nova offer all-in-one convenience with high-resolution music streaming combined with a high-performance integrated amplifier. The Uniti Core can rip, store, catalogue and rediscover your music with our complete digital music centers. And for CD purists, the CD5si CD player sets a thrilling new standard for musical performance at their entry level.
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Rega Apollo CD Player
Rega
Rega’s new Apollo CD Player uses the same electronic circuit found in the hugely successful Apollo-R CD player. Re-housed in our latest custom aluminium case to match the new styling of the Brio amplifier, the Apollo utilises Rega's own custom chipset and software offering a truly unique level of performance.
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Roon Nucleus digital music server
Roon music library user interface
Roon
Roon is the digital music player for music lovers. Music should be an experience, and Roon reconnects you with it.
Roon looks at your music and finds photos, bios, reviews, lyrics, and concert dates, and makes connections between artists, composers, performers, conductors, and producers. What you get is a searchable, surfable magazine about your music. And it’s widely compatible with many of the other products we recommend and use
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Spectral SDR-4000SV Studio Reference CD Processor
Spectral
Spectral of Sunnyvale, California makes the SDR-4000SV Studio Reference CD Processor, which quite simply is the absolute finest CD player in the world. No other device that we’ve ever heard is able to extract more detail and nuance from a Red Book Compact Disc (normal CD audio) or High Definition Compact Disc (HDCD).
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BACCH-SP dio stereo purifier
Theoretica Applied Physics
The BACCH Stereo Purifier is a state-of-the-art, high-definition, digital audio processor that yields highly realistic 3D sound imaging from a pair of stereo loudspeakers. At the heart of the BACCH-SP is BACCH® 3D Sound technology developed at Princeton University, which purifies loudspeaker-based stereo playback from the crosstalk that degrades the 3D spatial cues that exist in most stereo recordings, allowing the listener’s brain to receive the proper psycho-acoustic cues that are needed to perceive the locations of recorded sound sources realistically in 3D space.
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