Escient FireBall E-2 Brochure

Introducing the FireBall™ E2 Digital Music Managers.

The Industry’s choice for whole-home entertainment management.

The award winning Escient FireBall allows you to instantly catalog, access, and mange CDs, digital
music, CD changers, and Internet Radio stations – all from one powerful, yet simple-to-use onscreen
user interface. The next step in the evolution of our product line is the new FireBall E2 featuring a larger
capacity hard disk drive (300, 160, or 40 GB), an integrated Web interface, enhanced digital audio
performance, and unparalleled accessibility over a home network via a PC or Mac.

Simply enjoy your entertainment.

Access and manage your CDs, digital music and Internet Radio (iRadio) together in one simple,
on-screen music guide.

• NEW! - Built-in PC-compatible file sharing services let you easily move your music to and from your PC or Mac

• NEW! - Internal Web server enables remote control of your FireBall from any web browser

• NEW! - Improved performance for faster response of the user interface, faster recording, faster scrolling, faster

updating, and more

• NEW! - Improved recording features including: bulk recording from external changers and record and eject from the

built-in CD drive

• NEW! - FLAC (Free Lossless Audio Codec) audio encoder for CD quality audio recording at half the hard drive space

• Control, manage, and record from up to 3 mega-disc CD changers for a capacity of 1,209 external CDs

• Record MP3 (up to 320kbps), or FLAC

• Playback MP3s from 96-320kbps, or FLAC

• Built in 10/100BaseT Ethernet

The best user interface around.

Escient is known for providing the most intuitive user interfaces for entertainment management
on the planet. FireBall takes the interface to a whole new level.

• Sort and select your music by artist, cover art, genre, album title, song, playlist, favorites, and more

• NEW! - Record over 800 hours of CD quality music using the new FLAC encoder or over 5,000 hours of MP3 music

(depending upon compression rate)

• Manage up to 1200 CDs stored in connected CD changers

FireBall plays well with others.

FireBall integrates with a variety of home control
systems, remotes and peripheral products.

• Four RS-232 ports for a combination of CD changers, external

control systems, and touch panels

• Compatible with AMX, Crestron, Elan, Niles, Philips Pronto,

Xantech, and more (IR, TCP/IP, and RS-232)

Music and Movies in different rooms.

• Connect up to four FireBall DVDM-100s and/or MP-150s to

the FireBall E2 to stream digital music throughout a home

• Everyone gets their own, independent graphical user interface

to all music and digital audio outputs to every zone

Key Features:

• On-screen user interface for browsing, selecting and playing CDs, MP3s, FLAC files, and
Internet Radio stations

• Front panel CD-RW drive for playing, ripping, recording, and duplicating CDs

• Automatic CD Identification using Gracenote CDDB with cover art provided by AMG

• 40, 160, or 300GB internal hard drive for storing music files, metadata, and playlists

• CD Changer management – up to three 400 disc changers with built in audio matrix switch

• Record audio to hard drive from controlled external changers or from any legacy analog or
digital audio device (LPs, Cassettes, DAT, MD, etc.)

• Create custom playlists and genres

• Multi-zone and multi-user support via optional Fireball DVDM-100 and MP-150 products

• Web interface for FireBall control and music streaming to a PC or Mac

• PC File sharing for transfering music files to and from a PC or Mac

Connections:

• Digital optical, coax, and analog audio inputs and outputs

• Component, S-Video, and composite video outputs

• RS-232, Slink, and wired IR ports for two-way and one way control

• Ethernet port for Internet connection and two-way control

Supported Audio Formats:

• CD audio, CD-RW data, MP3 (128-320 encode, all bit rate playback), FLAC and WAV

Supported Connection Methods:

Built in 10/100BaseT Ethernet, or external modem with a wide variety of service providers

802.11 wireless, powerline, and HPNA phoneline networking supported with external adapters
(broadband is preferred connection method)

The most intuitive interface on the

planet is standard on FireBall.

FireBall E2 Guide

FireBall E2 Player

Supported CD Changers:

Sony 200, 300 and 400 disc CDP Series CD-only changers
Sony DVP-CX777ES / Kenwood DV5050 and 5900 / Pioneer DVF-07 (support for CDs only)

Supported Control Products:

AMX / Crestron / Elan / Niles / Philips Pronto / Xantech / and more
TCP/IP with external control systems, and more (constantly updated online at escient.com)

Included Accessories and Cables:

IR remote and IR keyboard
Composite / S-Video / Slink / Ethernet / Analog RCA audio cables

Optional Accessories:

FireBall DVDM-100 or MP-150s (4 may be linked to 1 E2-300)
Escient ETP-1500 Touch Panel
Escient EWP-2000 Web Pad
Escient FireBall Backup Kit
Escient Broadband Kit
Rack mounts available from Middle Atlantic. Ask for "Escient FireBall."
DVD/CD changer-specific RS-232 control cables

International: Currently supported by FireBall E2 hardware and software.

w/Feet w/o Feet Installed

Height

Depth

Width

Weight

FireBall is compliant with legal guidelines for music recording. CD media that can be used for recording is either CD-Ra or CD-RWa. CD-R and
CD-RWs cannot be used. Broadband is recommended for connection. ISP may be used. Please note: some free ISPs don't use standard,
consistent methods of Internet connectivity and don't open networks to outside users. Call for recommendations.

Escient reserves the right to change product hardware, features and software without notice. Upon any change, materials are
updated as quickly as possible, but may not be reflected in documents already distributed. Supported hardware is updated
continually. If you wish to interface with hardware that is not listed on this data sheet, please call Escient at 800.372.4368.

4 5/8"

11 7/8"

17 3/8”

14 lbs.

DIMENSIONS

4”

14 3/8"

FireBall E2 Web Interface

ONE CONFIGURATION EXAMPLE

HOME NETWORK

FireBall Digital Music Manager

DVDM-100s with connected changer(s)

*Up to 4 FireBall DVDM-100s or MP-150s may be connected to a
FireBall E2
*Other configurations supported

HDD
Model

300

160

40

* FLAC is a variable bit rate encoder so the actual number of hours will
vary depending on the music content -

Hours In
FLAC*

849

453

113

STORAGE CAPACITY

E2

Hours In
MP3 (320)

2023

1078

268

Hours In
MP3 (192)

3372

1797

447

Hours In
MP3 (160)

4046

2156

536

1 GB equals 1,000,000,000 bytes

Hours In
MP3 (128)

5057

2695

670

Escient
6325 Digital Way, Indianapolis, IN 46278

800.372.4368 317.616.6789 fax [phone] www.escient.com

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