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Arcam one-box offers music server solution

The iPod may have revolutionised portable music, but when it comes to home audio, most of our digs are still cluttered with CDs. The answer is to stor

Dan Grabham Dan Grabham

The iPod may have revolutionised portable music, but when it comes to home audio, most of our digs are still cluttered with CDs. The answer is to store the whole lot – from Abba to Zappa – on your hard drive. It’s a beautiful solution, the only problem is computers rarely produce a beautiful sound.Saving our ears from musical mediocrity is Arcam’s new FMJ MS250 audiophile-grade music server – a high-end CD player with a whopping 400GB hard drive capable of storing 80,000 MP3s or 640 uncompressed albums (fewer if you’re a fan of 40-minute prog jazz freak outs with drum, trumpet and kazoo solos).To make sure the sound that reaches your precious shells is of nothing but the finest quality, Arcam has included a custom designed sound card and more outputs than you can shake a composite cable at.An Ethernet connection offers streaming from iTunes and internet radio, while a front mounted USB socket screams out for an iPod or other MP3 player.The price for such sound superiority? A mighty £3,000. Seems like a lot, but your collection of Level 42 records never sounded so good.Essentials Arcam FMJ MS250 MusicFile Server Price: £3000 On sale: Now Contact: Arcam Related stories: Gadget of the Day – Sony Giga Juke NAS-50HDE Have a Siesta with Pure’s new green DABSony’s mini speaker system lands in the UK

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Dan is Editor-in-chief of Stuff, working across the magazine and the Stuff.tv website.  Our Editor-in-Chief is a regular at tech shows such as CES in Las Vegas, IFA in Berlin and Mobile World Congress in Barcelona as well as at other launches and events. He has been a CES Innovation Awards judge. Dan is completely platform agnostic and very at home using and writing about Windows, macOS, Android and iOS/iPadOS plus lots and lots of gadgets including audio and smart home gear, laptops and smartphones. He's also been interviewed and quoted in a wide variety of places including The Sun, BBC World Service, BBC News Online, BBC Radio 5Live, BBC Radio 4, Sky News Radio and BBC Local Radio.

Areas of expertise

Computing, mobile, audio, smart home