The Music Player

 

 

Why is the Theory and Application Music Player the one component you need to own?

 

The Music Player is a world class CD Player

The Music Player is an iPod Dock

The Music Player plays over 11,000 Internet radio stations

The Music Player plays music from your Mac or PC

The Music Player plays the music you have stored on your hard drive or NAS

The Music Player is an FM Tuner

The Music Player has unlimited storage accessibility

 

The sound will amaze you.

 

Because, after all, music is really only as good as it sounds.

 

But first, what exactly is the Music Player?

 

Quite simply, it is a digital music player, with impressively good sound. It will, of course, play all of your CDs, but its unbelievable flexibility will blow your world of music wide open. The Music Player will ease some of you into the new universe of digital music, for others it will simplify what you have already been doing and for everyone it will immerse you in the experience of truly great sound. Just add an amplifier and speakers and you have a perfect music system that will last you for a very long time.

 

T+A has mastered the very complicated art of simplicity. The Music Player plays and controls your iPod, the music you have stored on a media program like iTunes, the over 11,000 internet radio stations using its own website, FM radio, and of course, your CDs. The Music Player gathers and displays all of these diverse sources on its easy to read front panel, you chose the music and the Music Player does the rest.

 

How does the Music Player access all these sources? The Music Player is a streaming client - think of it as your own personal assistant. It has the ability to initiate communication with your router, and ask for and receive data, in this case music, from your network, Internet Radio or where ever else you have music stored.

 

 

But here is where the genius of the Music Player is revealed. We all know that storage is getting, bigger, faster and cheaper all the time. That’s the brilliance of the computer industry and we all get to take advantage of it. The Music Player was wisely designed, with all the communication and connection requirements to seamlessly access the wide variety of external storage devices.  The brilliance of the Music Player is how it executes the very important task of processing the digital data to produce the highest quality playback possible. Think of the Music Player as the Yo-Yo Ma of electronics, they both read objective information and then provide you with an experience that others can only envy. And because the Music Player is a forward thinking Universal Plug and Play device (UPnP), it will continue to be able to communicate with the ever increasing number of available music sources.

 

So let your Music Player do the work, send it to get that amazing Apple Lossless file on your hard drive, have it connect to it’s own vTuner website and chose an internet radio station to suit your mood. Or have fun “surfing” different stations and discover all the new music that’s out there. In countries all over the world there’s a lot of really great music that gets played on the local radio stations. Unfortunately much of this wonderful music never sees commercial distribution outside of the home market. With the Music Player you can visit those countries, discover new music and become a “local” everywhere. Be the “someone” who everybody goes to for new music.

 

For those of you with Kaleidescape, Sooloos or Qsonix, use the Music Player as a high performance digital audio converter and bring an entirely new level of performance to all of that beautifully organized music. Additionally, the Music Player will provide redundancy to your music playback system in the event that any of those machines need updating or service. Because, remember, the Music Player has a built in CD player, FM tuner and can always access your internet radio.

 

And now that the Music Player has given us access to all of this music in one place, it’s time to talk about the inspiration behind all of the Theory and Application products, their true passion which is extraordinary sound.

 

Because, after all, music is really only as good as it sounds.

 

To illustrate this, imagine going to hear the New York Philharmonic, or any renowned symphony, playing in one of the world’s great concert halls. Unhampered by sonic distractions, the sound of a talented and inspired symphony will immerse you in their music.  Contrast that sound to the one you would hear if that same symphony came to play on the stage in your old high school lunch room; same musicians playing the same composition, but clearly you end up with a very different musical experience.

 

This same concept applies when you play back recorded music at home. Mediocre components produce mediocre sound, the kind of sound that allows you to recognize the song, but the diminished quality further removes you from the richly layered performance. It makes you feel as if the components are sketching you a picture of the music, instead of giving you the real thing.

 

Great components recreate the music the way it was performed; they draw you into the musical experience and let you hear every note and expression. Expertly engineered and manufactured products are capable of gathering and precisely processing today’s digital data into music. These components provide you with the kind of sound that will enhance your music experience, not just provide it. Now, finally, there is a high-end solution for playing all of today’s diverse digital music sources, one that delivers every musician’s best performance into your home.

 

Technology has made it incredibly easy to access the whole world of music, now the Music Player makes it even easier to bring all of this music into the world of truly great sound.

 

Theory and Application   Engineering great sound to recreate great music.