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life has a soundtrack
Imagine the ultimate music experience.
Thousands of albums in living color at
your fingertips. Touch here, there, and
see all the music that suits your mood
in pristine CD quality. Play a song that
friend to something new. Set the stage
for a perfect evening.
Get in touch with
your music.
Experience.
LPs gave us big, beautiful artwork. CD s gave us digital clarity.
Computers gave us massive music libraries. Sooloos gives
you all those things and then some. Music isn’t simply
something you hear; it’s the soundtrack to your life. Explore
and enjoy your music in every way you ever thought possible
and in ways you never dreamt of.
Fidelity.
Hear your music the way it was meant to be heard. No fans,
no moving parts. Nothing standing between the performance
and your ears. Sooloos delivers the music, bit-for-bit as it was
mastered to CD, through the shortest and most discrete
signal path possible.
Performance.
At last, a digital music system designed without compromise.
Sooloos gives you all your music, when and where you want
it, with enterprise-class scalability and redundancy. Always
synchronized at multiple residences. Always mirrored to
protect your investment. Always up to date and ready to enjoy.
Music makes your morning, your noon, and your night. Sooloos puts the right music for the right occasion where it belongs: at your ngertips.
Cock tail part y: 50’s and 60’s J azz
and all the d eep hou se albums mixed
by your favo rite Pa risian DJ
Focus on the moment.
Music isn’t all zones, teraby tes, and signal-to -noise ratios.
The amazing thing about music is how it enhances our
experiences, and Sooloos does that like nothing else.
With Sooloos, you create the right recipe for every situation. Even with a huge music collection, you can quickly and easily get to the perfect mix of selections for any occasion. Using Focus, you control the criteria for the music you want to hear, ensuring that you play the right song at the right time, every time.
Romant ic eveni ng: The playl ist you
made for yo ur firs t date, any albums
with the m oods “Su ltr y” or “Sexy,”
and all your top- rate d Soul albums
Lazy after noon: Recor ds
you’ve bough t in the la st
month an d any albums
featur ing your fa vorite pianist
Poker night: All your Blu es albu ms, your
50 most -pla yed Country a lbums , and albums
you’ve tagge d as “He adbang ing Cla ssic s”
The Sooloos
sou rc e: micro con tr ol : micro
The System:
Sooloos isn’t a product; it’s a system. Designed with your needs
in mind — whether you have a one-room apartment or a thirty-room
estate, one hundred albums or ten thousand — Sooloos is tailored
to meet your specific requirements. Using components from
the three Sooloos product series (store, source, and control)
anyone can have the ultimate music experience.
Designed to satisfy the most discerning music lover:
Touch control devices provide
a uniquely engaging means of interacting with your music
Intuitive graphical interface allows
for easy management of huge music libraries
Extensive album, performer, genre
and related metadata, including high resolution cover art
Audio circuitr y is based on the
same designs used in professional recording studios
Audio is losslessly encoded,
ensuring bit-for-bit accuracy to the source material
All components are fanless and
use vir tually no moving parts, for near-silent operation
Expandable to allow tens of
thousands of albums of CD-quality audio in up to 32 zones
All audio storage is mirrored,
ensuring zero downtime in the event of disk failure
Using a PC, you can ef fortlessly
transfer music from your Sooloos system to your iPod®
Control Sooloos with the most
popular home control systems, including Crestron® and AMX
®
Product Series:
Series Specifications:
Sooloos Store Serie s:
The Soo loos s tore series is o ffer ed in mir rored c ompo nent pa irs wi th cap acities of on e, two, or three t eraby tes (providin g up to 2,0 00, 4,000, a nd 6,0 00 alb ums of st orage , respe ctiv ely). Additi onal pairs c an be add ed at any t ime, to ac commo date ev en the la rges t music l ibrar ies.
Sooloos Control Ser ies:
Ever y Soolo os sys tem inc ludes a c ontro l:one, w hich pr ovide s mast er cont rol, im por t, and config urati on func tion s on its b ig, bri ght 17” touch pa nel di splay. Th e contr ol:one a llows you to impor t CDs in minute s using t he worl d’s most a dvanc ed err or dete ction and cor rect ion algor ithms . Add con trol p oints w ith additional con trol:o nes, w ith the 7” contro l: micro, o r with th e wirel ess 7” control :re mote.
Sooloos Source Series:
Soolo os offers so urce:o ne, source:fi ve, and so urce:m icro c ompon ents to p rovid e up to 32 discrete zon es of aud io in a var iety o f net work an d distr ibut ion con figura tion s.
The sour ce seri es fea tures:
su per low -jitter de sign
D C- coupled sig nal path
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gr ound
free tr ansfo rmer- coupled
digit al outp ut
(
< 1 nanosec ond
)
s ervo -balanc ed ana log ou tputs
/
192 kH z
24 bit converters
SNR 110 dB RMS unwe ighte d, 113 dBA
con trol : re mot esou rce:o ne, fi vesto re : series
con tr ol : on e
It’s all about the music.
The ultimate music experience gets bet ter with every album you
add to your collection. Get the music you want, effortlessly.
Pre-loaded & Ready to Rock
Your Sooloos system is customized to include your existing CD
librar y, with cover art, credits, genres, moods, song picks and album reviews. From there, adding more music is easy. When you order your music through Sooloos, you get the original CDs along with an encoded high-capacity disc that your system impor ts in minutes — no ripping required!
Complete Your Collection.
Sooloos offers music packages designed to make sure you have the essentials covered in a wide variety of genres. From Essential 1950’s Cool Jazz to The Children’s Storybook to the World Music Primer, assembling a comprehensive library of music selected by leading music journalists, producers and conductors takes just minutes.
Stay up to Date.
With Sooloos subscriptions, stay on top of the hottest new releases in every genre. Whether you’re too busy to read reviews of the best reissues or your kids want what’s at the top of the charts, have it all shipped to your door ever y month and impor t it in one easy step.
The Largest Selection.
If it’s in print, you can get it from the Sooloos Shop. Browse online and choose from hundreds of thousands of CD titles. Get personalized recommendations based on what you already own. Most impor tantly, get it shipped to your door and into your Sooloos system instantly.
Sooloo s LLC
110 Gree ne S treet
Suite 608 New York, NY 10 012
866 .60 6.0 33 3
ww w.sooloos.com
“So oloos” is a tr ade mar k of S ool oos LLC.
“iPo d” ia a trademark of App le C omp uter, Inc.,
regi ste red in th e U.S . and oth er c oun tries.
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