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Rip, store and play thousands of songs

Setting up a wireless Hi-Fi system can be complex and time-consuming. GIGA JUKE™, our hard drive audio system, is so easy even dads can do it.

The engineering story

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Inspiration

A Sony sound engineer went to see his dad, who was struggling to set up a wireless music system at home. Getting the Hi-Fi to stream tracks from different sources, and to different rooms, caused him no end of frustration...

Could there be a simpler way to store his whole music collection, and share it all over the house?

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Creation

Our engineers got to work on a new breed of sophisticated Hi-Fi system: One that would bring all your music together in one place, and beam tracks all over the house in stunning sound quality.

They took their inspiration from a jukebox, inserting a huge hard drive to house thousands of MP3 files, and called it the GIGA JUKE™.

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Demonstration

The GIGA JUKE™ has multi-tasking at its heart. It can rip, store and play thousands of songs from any source – from CD and PC to a Walkman® MP3. You can even play music from your iPod.

And by adding up to five wireless players to different rooms, our clever engineers made it possible to access tunes all over the house. The main unit uses DLNA technology to stream different music to each of them, controlled by a single remote.

So you can listen to your iPod music in the lounge, while playing Internet radio in the kitchen…
The only thing better than the GIGA JUKE™ wireless capabilities and built-in storage, is the sound quality. Featuring S-Master Digital Amplifier, a twin magnet woofer and our Digital Sound Enhancement Engine to restore detail lost in compression, your music always sounds incredible – wherever you play it back.



Featured products with this technology

NAS-SC500PK

NAS-SC500PK

The complete wire free multi-room music experience in one package: Huge 160GB HDD GIGA JUKE™ music server, wireless station and player. Rip, store, record, play and stream up to 40,000 songs from any source including CD, PC, Walkman® and iPod® for playback in stunning S-Master Digital sound quality

NAS-SC55PKE

NAS-SC55PKE

The complete multi-room audio experience is here. Packaged with the 80GB Gigajuke music server, wireless station and Gigajuke wireless player. Access 40,000 songs directly from the server, or in another room from the wireless player. Add up to 4 additional units in different rooms to fill your house
 
 
 
 
 


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