Digital Music Server
Promotional Highlights
The MS300 is a CD Player / Music Server
with CD-R/W Drive and a 300 GB Hard
Drive built-in for mass music storage
With a huge 300 GB hard drive and integrated
web interface capabilities, the McIntosh MS300
Music Server will effortlessly catalog, access
and manage well over 800 CDs at true bit-forbit fidelity on its internal hard drive or,
depending on compression rate, over 50,000
songs. A new Free Lossless Audio Compression
(FLAC) encoding and decoding element
eliminates the inherent loss of data common in
MP3 compression resulting in a distinct
improvement when ripping music from CDs.
Navigating through
menus is
uncomplicated via
an on screen
interface that makes
it simple to find and
play any song,
album, play list or
artist in the
collection.
MS300
Plays CD, CD-R, CD-R/W, MP3 disks and is
capable of streaming music files over a home
network to remote locations on Ethernet enabled
devices.
High Quality A to D and D to A converters
maintain McIntosh soun d quality.
Internet Compatible with built-in integrated
Music Guide for content management and CD
cover art. External control options for all
functionality via Serial Port or TCP/IP interface
is supported.
Functions as a CD Ripper and MP3 Encoder
which supports multiple data rates. Custom CDs
may be burned from hard drive song library.
External Analog and Digital source recording
supported. Internal Transcoding of stored songs
from FLAC or MP3, to the CD format for CD
burning is supported.
Audio Specifications:
• THD + Noise on playback – 0.01%
• THD + Noise on record – 0 .003%
• Signal to Noise and Dynamic Range
>96dB
For more information on the MS300 Digital Music Server and other McIntosh
equipment contact your nearest Authorized McIntosh Dealer!
McIntosh Laboratory, Inc. 2 Chambers St. Binghamton, NY 13903-2699 www.mcintoshlabs.com
Handcrafted with pride in the United States by dedicated, highly trained craftspeople.
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