A. Ease of access is probably the greatest benefit of computer audio, allowing effective organization of large numbers of songs with the ability to search and quickly locate songs, or albums.
B. Replay of downloadable, high resolution music files. Downloading 24/96K files from the internet is the next major trend in the audiophile market.
A. Spatial addresses and solves the most important, yet most commonly ignored issue in audio: The destructive interaction of your room's acoustic signature upon your loudspeaker's response. In our software based approach, a Spatial engineer remotely logs onto your iMac, measures your room and creates a room correction and wideband speaker response correction file which is stored in our software. The correction is then performed realtime directly on your iTunes music file, eliminating degradation that occurs with hardware processor solutions.
B. The Spatial System is seamless and intuitive to operate. Simply play your songs in iTunes and we do the rest behind the scenes with rock-solid dependability running on the Apple iMac computer. Everything you need is in the box. The Spatial System replaces your CD player, D/A converter and Preamplifier.
C. Studio quality DAC/Preamp. The DAC/Pre receives the corrected iTunes music file via Firewire cable from the iMac. This is the same method used by professional studio engineers and provides extremely high quality sound performance without concern for glitches or reliability questions.
A. This is generally true of studio grade, pro digital products. This is because Digital Audio Workstations (DAWs), used in studio recording, have been in aggressive development for at least 15 years and have attained a high level of maturity. Additionally, many Pro companies are much larger than the typical audiophile company, and thereby have much greater R&D budgets and engineering resources for product development. Much higher production volumes of studio digital gear have also resulted in dramatically lower prices as compared to low volume, audiophile models.
B. Spatial engineers have concluded that a device known as a Firewire Digital Audio Interface with integral analog preamplifier is the ideal design for use in computer audio playback. The Apogee Duet and Apogee Ensemble (shown) are of this type. The State-of-the-Art Orpheus Firewire Interface, built by the legendary maker Prism Sound in England will be offered for customers that demand the very best available. Most any Firewire or USB interface will also work. Please consult the factory for specifics.
A. Yes, you can connect up to 4 external analog devices, along with digital sources into our 8 Channel Firewire Interfaces, and two devices with most two channel units.