M50 Digital Music Player
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Possessing exact copies of the Studio Master recordings has been the audiophile’s dream from the beginning of high fidelity playback. Even the best system cannot regain what has been lost in a recording, reduced in fidelity to fit on a CD or LP, and the limitations of previous media has always meant a compromise in fidelity. Unless you were lucky enough to visit a recording studio, you could never hear the most accurate form of the recording—the Studio Master. This is now changing with the increasing popularity of HD downloads—great news for anyone who loves music. The problem, however, is the computer, which was not built for audio performance. Now with NAD’s Masters Digital Music Suite, you can download, listen, stream, and store precious HD recordings without a computer, completely shaking up the way you enjoy HD music. The M50 Digital Music Player is where most of the processing and control functions are located, and acts as the brain of the revolutionary Masters Digital Music Suite. M50 Digital Music Player Features > Software Defined Much of the M50’s system is defined by software, not hardware. This means that new cloud services or audio codecs can be integrated by simply changing the software stack of the M50. This software upgrade potential allows the M50 to live on and maintain its cutting edge functionality. While the focus is clearly on 24/96 Studio Master downloads and listening, our software roadmap includes the addition of Internet Radio and premium cloud services in the future. The M50’s massive processing power will support years and years of software upgrades. > Powerful Connections We have included the latest generation low power, super high performance ARM processor. These have more computing power than a PC from just a few years ago, yet run cool and do not require noisy fans. Digital connectivity includes SPDIF, USB, and unusually for a stereo audio component, HDMI. We included HDMI because it is a secure encrypted format that supports 24/192 HD Audio in PCM’s native I2S format, but it is not a video output. > Rip, Manage, and Play The M50 CD transport can playback from, or rip to the M52 Digital Music Vault using FLAC lossless encoding. Ripping is completely automatic, while NAD’s music management software for your tablet or smartphone can fetch meta data and cover art from the Internet, when connected. All without a computer! Everything is organized and instantly available for playback. You can browse your music collection and easily create playlists by album or category listing, on the fly. > Go Wireless… or not You have a choice of a wired or wireless network connection, using standard Wi-Fi protocol IEEE 802.11 b/g/n. While you can stream 24/96 music wirelessly, we recommend a wired connection or local storage for HD music to avoid unwanted dropouts. Wi-Fi capability also offers the convenience of controlling your music collection from a smartphone or tablet. When combined with our M52 Digital Music Vault, the M50 is ideal for enjoying your HD music, as well as CDs, MP3, FLAC, or AAC compressed music. > Simple Control While a smartphone or tablet is the best way to operate the M50, we have also included an IR remote and four-line graphic VFD display to play CDs like a conventional hi-fi component. We have also included an RS-232 and IR input to allow for easy integration with home automation systems. > Music First At NAD, we emphasize better sound, so after ripping a CD, playback is different and much improved in the M50 over existing CD players. Instead of streaming directly from the disc to the output, the M50 momentarily stores the data in a memory buffer where it is re-clocked to the M50’s high precision master clock for the lowest levels of jitter. Enjoy fully asynchronous audio playback from all your media sources.
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Possessing exact copies of the Studio Master recordings has been the audiophiles dream from the beginning of high fi delity playback. Even the best system cannot regain what has been lost in a recording, reduced in fi delity to fi t on a CD or LP, and the limitations of previous media has always meant a compromise in fi delity. Unless you were lucky enough to visit a recording studio, you could never hear the most accurate form of the recordingthe Studio Master. This is now changing with the increasing popularity of HD downloadsgreat news for anyone who loves music. The problem, however, is the computer, which was not built for audio performance. Now with NADs Masters Digital Music Suite, you can download, listen, stream, and store precious HD recordings without a computer, completely shaking up the way you enjoy HD music. The M50 Digital Music Player is where most of the processing and control functions are located, and acts as the brain of the revolutionary Masters Digital Music Suite.
M50 Digital Music Player
Features> Software Defi nedMuch of the M50s system is defi ned by software, not hardware. This means that new cloud services or audio codecs can be integrated by simply changing the software stack of the M50. This software upgrade potential allows the M50 to live on and maintain its cutting edge functionality. While the focus is clearly on 24/96 Studio Master downloads and listening, our software roadmap includes the addition of Internet Radio and premium cloud services in the future. The M50s massive processing power will support years and years of software upgrades.
> Powerful ConnectionsWe have included the latest generation low power, super high performance ARM processor. These have more computing power than a PC from just a few years ago, yet run cool and do not require noisy fans. Digital connectivity includes SPDIF, USB, and unusually for a stereo audio component, HDMI. We included HDMI because it is a secure encrypted format that supports 24/192 HD Audio in PCMs native I2S format, but it is not a video output.
> Rip, Manage, and PlayThe M50 CD transport can playback from, or rip to the M52 Digital Music Vault using FLAC lossless encoding. Ripping is completely automatic, while NADs music management software for your tablet or smartphone can fetch meta data and cover art from the Internet, when connected. All without a computer! Everything is organized and instantly available for playback. You can browse your music collection and easily create playlists by album or category listing, on the y.
> Go Wireless or notYou have a choice of a wired or wireless network connection, using standard Wi-Fi protocol IEEE 802.11 b/g/n. While you can stream 24/96 music wirelessly, we recommend a wired connection or local storage for HD music to avoid unwanted dropouts. Wi-Fi capability also offers the convenience of controlling your music collection from a smartphone or tablet. When combined with our M52 Digital Music Vault, the M50 is ideal for enjoying your HD music, as well as CDs, MP3, FLAC, or AAC compressed music.
> Simple ControlWhile a smartphone or tablet is the best way to operate the M50, we have also included an IR remote and four-line graphic VFD display to play CDs like a conventional hi-fi component. We have also included an RS-232 and IR input to allow for easy integration with home automation systems.
> Music FirstAt NAD, we emphasize better sound, so after ripping a CD, playback is different and much improved in the M50 over existing CD players. Instead of streaming directly from the disc to the output, the M50 momentarily stores the data in a memory buffer where it is re-clocked to the M50s high precision master clock for the lowest levels of jitter. Enjoy fully asynchronous audio playback from all your media sources.
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Specifications CONNECTIONS M50INPUTS
USB 2.0 Device (Type B) to connect to NAD M52 USB Storage (Digital Music Vault)Front and Rear USB 2.0 Type A for playback via USB Stick, Hard Drive IR Input12V Trigger In
OUTPUTSS/PDIF - Coaxial 75 - Optical TOSlinkHDMI 1.4 (Audio only)Digital AES/EBU12V Trigger OutIR Out
NETWORK CONNECTIVITYWiFi 802.11n/g 2.4GEthernet 10/100MbsRS232
OVERALL SPECIFICATIONSSample Rate 32kHz to 192kHz, 16/24 bitAudio Formats FLAC, WMA, WAV, OGG Vorbis, AIFF, ALAC, MP3USB File Systems FAT 32, Linux EXT
GENERALStandby power
