aria 2 music server | aria music servers

HI-END MUSIC SERVER

Designed by and for music lovers and audiophiles, aria is a non-compromise music server system that ensures pleasing both audiophiles in search of sonic excellence and music lovers with large collections of CDs and/or digital files for whom a powerful and easy-to-use music library management tool is key. aria is the only hardware music server on the market to support an unlimited number of extended metadata fields for any music genre.

This feature allows users to sort and view their music collection in multiple ways such as: albums from the romantic (Period) for piano (Instrument), played by Maurizio Pollini (Soloist). For users’ convenience aria has 18 predefined fields automatically matching the tagging structure of our proprietary classical music database, SonataDB.

Furthermore you can delete or add fields at will. For any other music genre, all fields can be manually tagged.

aria’s innovative slim fanless 6mm thick precision machined aluminum chassis has been designed by Ochoa & Diaz-Llanos, a leading European industrial design studio. All hardware components have been carefully selected to meet the highest quality standard, computing electronics used are all industrial grade and audio components are hi-end quality.

The extremely low-power consumption, (typically only 10W), assures a low operating temperature, resulting in long life and reliability of all components.

(Discontinued)

FEATURES

Easy to use – just open up your tablet and start playing music
100% silent operation
Up to 4TB of internal storage (SSHD) or 2TB (SSD)
Multizone support
Fully automatic CD Ripper (insert & rip)
Best metadata retrieval in the market with extended metadata fields, fully automatic for classical CDs (Period, Style, Instrument, Conductor, Orchestra, Soloists, Label)
Bit Perfect digital audio
Support for up to 32bit/384KHz music files and DSD (subject to a compatible DAC)
Digital and (optional) analog outputs
Streaming to tablet
Streaming to Airplay compatible devices
Supports a broad range of music formats: WAV, FLAC, Apple Lossless (ALAC), AIFF, AAC, Ogg Vorbis, MP3 and DSD64/128/256

SPECS

Very slim aluminum fanless case
Industrial grade TEAC 5¼“ tray-loading DVD-R drive for ripping
Custom ultra-low-power industrial grade motherboard
Hi-end USB to SPDIF converter board with asynchronous operation up to 24-192 allows for Kernel Streaming, Direct Sound and WASAPI
Outputs: Coax RCA, AES/EBU
Optional linear power supply
Optional DAC 32/384K with asynchronous USB 2.0 and DSD Support

2.1 Ripping

Fully automatic CD Ripper (insert & rip)
Error correction and AccurateRip audio check
Internet access to premium databases: Discogs, GD3, SonataDB (Classical), Freedb and Musicbrainz
PerfectMeta software picks and merges metadata results from each database to bring you the best metadata results in the industry
Extended metadata fields support (up to 18) for all music genres: Composer, Period, Instrument, etc., a unique feature, and still a market first available for ANY genre with manual tagging