Kevin You, head honcho at Class A Audio, called me over the long weekend very excited about a new product. "Marc, you must tell StereoNET readers about this" ... he continued, "it beats most of the sub $10,000 CD players and ripped filed playback even sounds better than the original CDs!".

The Chronolog he refers to very enthusiastically, is a high-end CD Player, CD/DVD Ripper, and Network Streamer, controllable from smartphones and tablets.

Let's face it, despite the growing popularity of high-res download sites and stores, many of us enthusiasts still have hundreds of CDs. This is where the Chronolog comes in. The Chronolog copies the music from the CD onto an internal solid state hard drive (SSD), and then plays it from there. So not only can you now store your CDs in storage, because of the bit-perfect ripping and jitter-free playback, your music will sound better than playback of the CD itself.

Storage capacity varies from 60Gb (around 150 albums) up to 960Gb (around 2250 albums). Chronolog also allows the connection of an external hard drive, as well as streaming from existing network attached storage (NAS) drives as well.

The Chronolog is compatible with just about every format known to man and audiophile, and the internal DAC features 192kHz/24Bit resolution, although details on the DAC itself are scarce.

Control and operation is performed via smartphones or tablets. Recommended is the iPad apparently due to speed and usability, however Chronolog can be controlled by any device using a browser supporting Javascript.

Features:

• High End CD-Ripping
• Playable music formats
  wav, mp3, flac, cdda, nsv, m4a, aac, strm, pls, rm, mpa, wma, ogg, mp2, m3u, mod, amf, 669, dmf, dsm, far, gdm, imf, it, m15, med, okt, s3m, stm, sfx, ult, uni, xm, sid, ac3, dts, cue, aif, aiff, wpl, ape, mac, mpc, mp+, mpp, shn, zip, rar, wv, nsf, spc, gym, adplug, adx, dsp, adp, ymf, ast, afc, hps, xsp, ...
• Sample rate up to 192kHz, 24Bit
• High end music-track-caching
• Gapless playback
• High end CD-player with meta data display
• Editing by WEB portal
• Cover management / download
• High end fileserver
• High end NAS (Network Attached Storage) and media streaming
• Access and integration of distributed databases in the music network / uPnP client
• Native internet radio without artificial upsampling
• Radio search by artist or genre
• Intuitive graphical user interface using touch-WEB portal
• File management functions
• Playlist management
• Integrated 1GB LAN Ethernet/WLAN-WiFi interface
• Firefox add-on for YouTube streaming
• Last.fm scrobble (Title information can be transmitted to Last.fm)
• Chronolog add-ons expand the functions
• Screen visualizations
• DAC 192kHz 24 Bit
• Bit rate and frequency display
• Automatic updates via the Internet
• Silent SSD - Storage
• Elaborate graphical representation on TV and WEB portal
• Use of USB storage devices without a previous database import

Trigon Chronolog is available now from Class A Audio and is priced at $8900.00 RRP.

For more information visit Class A Audio.