Turtle Beach AudioTron MP3 Server

[Westrock2000]

Anyone tried one of these?

I'm probably gonna buy one for my new house. I had them add CAT5 drops in several rooms for (among other things) some of these MP3 servers.

AudioTron at Turtle Beach (http://www.tbeach.com/site/products/audiotron/producthome.asp)

http://www.tbeach.com/site/images/audiotron/atron_unit_400w.gif

Price $200-$250

PC Magazines Review (http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1759,1572231,00.asp)

[mike_p]

I have one.

Pros (aside from being a glorified mp3 player):
Plays internet radio
Decent quality over TOS
Upgradeable firmware

Cons:
Remote sucks
Sorta tricky to setup
RCA output total crap
Company in the ****ter

mike

[Westrock2000]

What do you mean about the RCA outputs? Like their not chassis mount and bend alot? Or just bad signal transfer?

Have you played 320Kbps MP3's on them? I've backed up most of my CD's at 320.

"Decent quality over TOS"

What does this mean? TOS = the other stuff?

[Unregistered]

What do you mean about the RCA outputs? Like their not chassis mount and bend alot? Or just bad signal transfer?

Have you played 320Kbps MP3's on them? I've backed up most of my CD's at 320.

"Decent quality over TOS"

What does this mean? TOS = the other stuff?

TOS = Abbreviation for Toslink when someone just can't bring themselves to type the extra four characters to avoid confusion. The Audiotron has an optical digital output and optical digital audio cables have a Toslink connector on the end of them (as opposed to coaxial digital audio cables which have RCA jacks on the end of them).

The issue of poor Analog audio outputs (RCA) jacks has been discussed many times over on the Audiotron forum.