http://www.sonneteer.co.uk/morphrss.xml It rips, it stores, it shows up on the Morpheus Music Centre and all while you are making a cup of tea! all in glorious WAV or FLAC and you can have it in MP3 if you will. Naturally, Sonneteer would prefer you to store everything in an uncompressed format to enjoy playing it back through the Morpheus in all its glory. The Morpheus Server, as it will be known, will be officially launched at CES this January as Sonneteer will be showing between the 7th and 10th at the Venetian Hotel, Suite 29-310. The set up will be resembling that of a normal home with a living room and a dining area both with a Morpheus Music Centre installed and a Server neatly places to, ehem, serve them both. Sonneteer will also have an iPod Touch handy to demonstrate how any number of their Music Centres and Servers can be controlled from such a device. It also works with the iPhone. All you need is to download the Plug Player application for a minimal cost (£2.99 in the UK). Album art is displayed and play lists set as music in different parts of the house can be set and adjusted whilst sitting on the sofa and sipping that, aforementioned, cup of tea. We promise a few more details very shortly as well as pictures and news from the show itself. For more information and some high resolution images please got to the Press release www.sonneteer.co.uk/press_release_server.htm for more Sonneteer press releases go to: www.sonneteer.co.uk/press http:// Description Sat, 09 Jan 2010 05:44:22 GMT Sat, 09 Jan 2010 05:47:24 GMT http://www.sonneteer.co.uk/newsblog/2010/01/look-whos-talking-about-sonneteer-at.html Look who's talking about Sonneteer at CES 2010 We've reported back ourselves and our guy's blogs will soon be buzzing with more (once over the jet lag) so here is a moment to see what some of the rest are saying about Sonneteer: The Stereophile have long been great supporters and always good for a conversation or two have published a fulland detailed CES show report as usual and the bit that interests us can be found here: http://blog.stereophile.com/ces2010/sonneteer_morpheus_music_server/ Oh and more from them in multi colour: http://blog.stereophile.com/ces2010/sonneteer_color_palette/ Alan Sircom's Best of CES report: The editor of Hi-Fi Plus, a member of the Absolute Sound's stable of publications, pasts his thoughts online with regards his CES experience. It was good to see him in very good spirits with lots of optimism for the audio industry. http://www.avguide.com/blog/alan-sircom-s-best-ces?page=1 ecoustics.com have clearly been reading our news pages. Happy to have you on board ladies and gents: http://news.ecoustics.com/bbs/messages/10381/610921.html Elite Choice, but of course: http://elitechoice.org/2010/01/05/ces-2010-sonneteer-to-unveil-morpheus-music-centre/ Audio Video Revolution: These guys popped into the show room and we had a good natter. We, at S-news and Sonneteer, think their vision of where the home entertainment electronics industry is going is akin with ours and will be following their bulletins avidly. Recommended reading, shall we say. http://www.avrev.com/home-theater-news/music-servers-mp3-players-news/sonneteer-breaks-barriers-with-new-music-server.html And Phile web from Japan: Fans of ours for a while. http://www.phileweb.com/news/audio/201001/10/9658.html in Japanese or http://translate.google.co.uk/translate?hl=en&sl=ja&u=http://www.phileweb.com/news/audio/201001/10/9658.html&ei=tWZPS6npHo6I0wSGpKGwCg&sa=X&oi=translate&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CDYQ7gEwAA&prev=/search%3Fq%3DSonneteer%2B%2Bces%2Bphileweb%2BCES%26hl%3Den%26rlz%3D1C1GGLS_en-GB___GB316%26sa%3DG%26tbo%3D1 google translated into English. I4U. This one has been linked to from all over the web: http://www.i4u.com/article29620.html And for lots of show pictures: http://live.audiogon.com/cgi-bin/ces.pl?&VT_29-310&RoomView&FM&&&&&&CES10 We are also twittering: http://twitter.com/Sonneteerhifi Fri, 15 Jan 2010 14:31:52 GMT http://www.sonneteer.co.uk/newsblog/2010/01/look-whos-talking-about-sonneteer-at.html Look who's talking about Sonneteer at CES 2010 We've reported back ourselves and our guy's blogs will soon be buzzing with more (once over the jet lag) so here is a moment to see what some of the rest are saying about Sonneteer: The Stereophile have long been great supporters and always good for a conversation or two have published a fulland detailed CES show report as usual and the bit that interests us can be found here: http://blog.stereophile.com/ces2010/sonneteer_morpheus_music_server/ Oh and more from them in multi colour: http://blog.stereophile.com/ces2010/sonneteer_color_palette/ Alan Sircom's Best of CES report: The editor of Hi-Fi Plus, a member of the Absolute Sound's stable of publications, pasts his thoughts online with regards his CES experience. It was good to see him in very good spirits with lots of optimism for the audio industry. http://www.avguide.com/blog/alan-sircom-s-best-ces?page=1 ecoustics.com have clearly been reading our news pages. Happy to have you on board ladies and gents: http://news.ecoustics.com/bbs/messages/10381/610921.html Elite Choice, but of course: http://elitechoice.org/2010/01/05/ces-2010-sonneteer-to-unveil-morpheus-music-centre/ Audio Video Revolution: These guys popped into the show room and we had a good natter. We, at S-news and Sonneteer, think their vision of where the home entertainment electronics industry is going is akin with ours and will be following their bulletins avidly. Recommended reading, shall we say. http://www.avrev.com/home-theater-news/music-servers-mp3-players-news/sonneteer-breaks-barriers-with-new-music-server.html And Phile web from Japan: Fans of ours for a while. http://www.phileweb.com/news/audio/201001/10/9658.html in Japanese or http://translate.google.co.uk/translate?hl=en&sl=ja&u=http://www.phileweb.com/news/audio/201001/10/9658.html&ei=tWZPS6npHo6I0wSGpKGwCg&sa=X&oi=translate&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CDYQ7gEwAA&prev=/search%3Fq%3DSonneteer%2B%2Bces%2Bphileweb%2BCES%26hl%3Den%26rlz%3D1C1GGLS_en-GB___GB316%26sa%3DG%26tbo%3D1 google translated into English. I4U. This one has been linked to from all over the web: http://www.i4u.com/article29620.html And for lots of show pictures: http://live.audiogon.com/cgi-bin/ces.pl?&VT_29-310&RoomView&FM&&&&&&CES10 We are also twittering: http://twitter.com/Sonneteerhifi Fri, 15 Jan 2010 15:36:39 GMT http://www.sonneteer.co.uk/newsblog/2010/01/ces-show-reprot-as-ces-2010-comes-to.html CES: Las Vegas - The morning of the 11th of January, Las Vegas hosted late breakfast and check out times for 10s of thousands of Engineers, sales reps and marketing folk as the 2010 CES show flies off in to the distant sun. CES this year was dominated by news of 3DTV and ebook readers whilst nearly every journalist jumped on to these band wagons the rest of the show's exhibits were lost or should I say hidden by the fog of it all. The best of the show is generally away from the 'flash in the pan' media frenzy and often a better guide to what will change our lives over the next few years. What caught my eye, were things like the Adidas miCoach, a device to aide runners and joggers to measure their performance, and the prevelance of internet connected devices. Internet radio going in to cars, as announced by Ford, could be the sounding of the last bell for DAB for instance. Of course the high end audio area, at the Venetian Towers is of Particular interest to us and, as we have already reported, Sonneteer, the British luxury music systems maker, were true to form in bringing new ideas to the show with their ultra quiet Morpheus Server, to match their Morpheus Music Centre. Also showing off that their products will be available in a wide range of colours to special order. The server was shown both in black and a sumptuous Burgundy, red. Needless to say, Sonneteer, though at the luxury end of the home entertainment electronics market have been internet connected for quite sometime now. Penaudio, the high end luxury loudspeaker manufacturer from Finland were accompanying Sonneteer this year with the launch of their Ambient range of speakers in its Series 2 form. As one enters the show suite, one finds it laid out as a typical home with a dining room area in the upper level and a living room area below over looking the Las Vegas Strip. Two systems were on display both being served by a Sonneteer Morpheus server and a music Centre driving a pair of Serenades from The Penaudio Classic range in the living area and a pair of Red Chronos from the Ambient in the dining area. The Penaudio Ambient range, as mentioned, has been tweaked up market by using better drive units and a dusting of Sami Pentilla (their chief designer and founder) magic. These will be available in three standard colour, but much like the Sonneteer range, the customer can request other colours which will be available at a premium to the standard price. Not neglecting their analogue roots, Sonneteer were also demonstrating the Sedley Phono stage which was on show in one of their USA distributor, May Audio's eight show rooms at CES where is was singing merrily to the tune of a Roksan Turntable and a London Decca Cartridge and using Gut Wire cables. The Sedley, now globally renowned for its musical abilities and unmatched flexibility is also available with a USB connection. We have linked to a couple of recent reviews in our pages in the past from UHF and Audio Audition. Back home and catching up on sleep, we look forward to 2010 with optimism. Roll on CES 2011. Labels: CES, Morpheus, Penaudio, Server, Show Report, Sonneteer Fri, 15 Jan 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.sonneteer.co.uk/newsblog/2010/02/showing-by-riverside-in-netherlands.html Sonneteer, already popular with the Dutch is now in the good hands of Riverside Audio for the Benelux market. A marketing campaign followed by reviews kicked off early in the new year and new dealers are already taking on stock and demonstrating products. The people behind Riverside have been long standing fans of Sonneteer and welcome the chance to take it to a broader audience whilst maintaining and bettering the standards of service Sonneteer customers have come to expect. The Sonneteer guys will be popping over from time to time to lend support, pick up some cheese(Haider is partial to a bit of Guada) and enjoy the great hospitality always extended to them when over there. We will be bringing you translations and originals of all the reviews as they are made available to us. The grape vines are twittering that The Morpheus Music Centre has been well received by one of their better hi-fi publications. More soon. To contact River side please go to their website: http://www.riversideaudio.nl/ Labels: Gauda, Morpheus Music Centre, Morpheus Server, Netherlands, Riverside Audio, riversideaudio.nl, Sonneteer Mon, 22 Feb 2010 16:39:33 GMT http://www.sonneteer.co.uk/newsblog/2010/02/vintagerockcom-ermrock-with-sonneteer.html "Sonneteer director Haider Bahrani showed us the Morpheus, which we imagined would look nice in our living room." This was the comment Vintage Rock came up with about the Sonneteer Morpheus Server and Music Centre. They were reporting back on the CES show at which they popped into the Sonneteer and Penaudio Suite at the Venetian Hotel. They saw a number of systems attempting to gain traction in this new age of high fidelity. The Sonneteer Morpheus system to them was, well let's just let you read what they said: "The Morpheus from Sonneteer was the sleekest and most discreet. It stores three terabytes of tunes, and like the others, will rip your CDs while you “go make a cup of tea.” You can even control it, like most of the other music servers, with your iPhone[or iPod Touch]." You can see their full report at Vintagerock.com The one thing they omitted from their report, as they were comparing Ethernet connections, is that the Sonneteer Morpheus is Wi-fi compatible(wireless network) as well as being Ethernet capable(wired network). So if you don't have your house wired up for Ethernet in every room and your home router is wireless(nearly all are these days) you can be up and away in a matter of minutes. Labels: CES, Consumer electronics Show, Ethernet, iPhone, iPod touch, Morpheus Music Centre, Morpheus Server, Sonneteer, Sonneteer Morpheus, Venetian Hotel, VintageRock.com, Wi-Fi Tue, 23 Feb 2010 00:00:00 GMT