Cocktail Audio X10 can stream music and rip your CDs
Cocktail Audio has announced the X10, a CD player, music storage device, internet radio and more.
Cramming plenty in to a relatively compact unit, the X10 combines the functions of network audio players with an integrated hard disk and CD-ripping drive.
Available in 500GB, 1TB and 2TB incarnations, the X10 can rip music in MP3, OGG, FLAC or WAV formats, straight to the hard disk.
There's built-in amplification, so connect to a pair of speakers and you're in business.
You can make a wired connection - or wireless, with the optional dongle - to your network in order to stream music from other networked sources, or add music from other sources to the X10's hard disk.
There's access to internet radio too, with a colour LCD promising to make navigating the wealth of stations easier than other devices.
The unit can also be controlled via the EyeconnTroller app, available free for iOS and Android devices.
There are analogue, digital optical and headphone outputs, plus aux and USB inputs.
Available now from £349 (500GB), we'll hope to bring you a review of the Cocktail Audio X10 soon.
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Comments
I received my new Cocktail Audio X10 during Christmas Holidays. I had a Brennan JB7, before X10.
What I can say, in few words, is that Cocktail Audio X10 is a lot better, it is more reliable, it has more features.
X10 has a very good sound, indeed. I bought it from Italy: http://www.cocktailaudio.it because I live in Milan.
The most important features, in my opinion, are:
- Very nice LCD color display;
- Software speed (it is really fast!);
- CD Ripping in FLAC;
- Neverending playlists;
- Discography View (it is very useful!!);
- IRadio: you can listen and also register tons of free high quality internet radios!
Now I also found that I can use my iPad2 to remotely control X10: it is awesome.
X10 is a DLNA compatible device and you can use a lot of iOS software with it.
I can suggest you 8Player for iOS that has impressive features and it is also cheap to buy (but there are also some free softwares, not good as 8Player is).
So, my conclusions are that I’m very happy with my new Cocktail Audio X10!
Marco
This is a terrific machine, I've had mine a few weeks and it is used in studio and home. Our unit has a 1.5 tb hdd that will hold about 1900 CCDs in WAV format
The ability to store in wav files gives the Brennan no chance and the hdd is removable as well. A very good unit . Highly recommended.