Hot on the heals of its RIP-N-PLAY all-in-one music ripper, store and server, British company AVA Media has unveiled its new flagship model, the £1899 Zara Premium.
Housed in a high-quality aluminium body, the Zara Premium is much slimmer (35x20x3.6cm) than the £799 RIP-N-PLAY and has a host of additional features.
It has two 1TB hard disks installed as standard, offers bit-perfect audio ripping to WAV, and can also encode to FLAC, MP3 or WMA if required. It can also rip CDs to a local hard disk drive or NAS device.
There's sufficient storage on board to store up to 2450 CDs in WAV format or 4250 in FLAC.
The unit can control up to six UPnP (Universal Plug and Play) devices, and will transcode high-resolution audio files to a lower resolution on the fly for playback on non high-res systems such as Sonos.
There's full UPnP control for Linn, Sonos and Roku systems and a built-in network music scanner allows the unit to index music found on other networked devices such as a NAS drive or from a USB device.
Designed and built in the UK, the Zara Premium is available now from retailers listed on the AVA Media website.
