
Qsonix Q100 Music Server
That Magic Touch
by John Sciacca
Photos By Tony Cordoza
April 2006
A board game called Othello came up with
the ingenious tagline, "A minute to learn, a
lifetime to master." It's simple enough that
anyone can immediately start playing but it
has enough strategy to hold your interest
for, well, years. Now, that might be okay
for a game (though after a couple of losing
turns, I want to scatter those impertinent
black-and-white discs all over the floor).
Unfortunately, it's also an apt and regrettable description for
many audio/video systems. In my custom-install work, we allot
time for "client education," when we go over how everything
works. Then the customer's eyes start glazing over in that 1,000-
yard stare, and I start thinking, "They're just not gonna get it."
Sure, a lot of today's technology is jaw-droppingly cool, but if no
one can figure it out, what good is it?
That appears to be the driving force behind the Qsonix Q100
music server. With a 160-gigabyte (GB) hard drive and two
independent audio outputs, the Q100 stores, manages, and
serves up your music library to a pair of rooms in two separate
but equally sweet helpings. Of course, media servers with giga-
size hard drives that store thousands of songs aren't new. But
finding a particular song can mean navigating through line upon
line of text, and creating playlists to simplify things can be
tedious.
The real treat in the Qsonix Q100 is its 15-inch touchpanel
controller. It has a drag-and-drop interface for song selection
that's powerful and effortless to use. Its operation will be totally
What We Think
This multiroom
music server offers
excellent sound
and an interface as
gorgeous as it is
easy to use.
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