Features:
- 80 GB server supports wireless music transmission to anywhere in the home
- Communicates with MCX-A10 digital audio clients
- Functions as high-quality CD recorder with CD-R/RW compatibility
- CD-MP3 playback for high-quality music compilations
- Built-in CD recognition database and easy-to-use graphical interface
Description:
It sounds like a dream of the future: all the music in your household stored efficiently on a central server and then called, as desired, to individual rooms through elegant--and completely independent--microsystems. Yamaha's MusicCAST system makes that dream a reality, and the MCX-1000 digital audio server is the foundation of the MusicCAST system. 
Learn about the MusicCAST system in detail | The MCX-1000 stores music and broadcasts it wirelessly to one or more specially designed microsystem receiver in your house. Each receiver system (or "client") consists of the Yamaha MCX-A10 digital audio terminal coupled with any pair of stereo loudspeakers, or Yamaha's matching, stylish MCX-SP10. Using a multiclient system, all members of a home can store their music in a central location, create playlists, custom CDs, and digital sound files from vintage vinyl records, and wirelessly transmit them anywhere in the house. Capable of storing around 1,000 CDs (using MP3 compression at a very listenable 160 kbps), the MCX-1000's self-contained 80 GB hard drive provides instant access to a vast array of your favorite music. The server's bits are yours to configure: save your music in CD-quality linear PCM digital audio (it'll hold an impressive 133 hours of CD-quality audio) or convert it internally to MP3 at rates of 160, 256, or 320 kbps. The server has its own disc drive--which records CDs as well as playing them--and analog and digital external audio inputs in case you want to load material from LPs, cassettes, or other sources. 
The MCX-1000 features a user friendly interface. | Equipped with IEEE 802.11b network technology, the MCX-1000 can serve up to five clients wirelessly, and wired Ethernet connections can extended client range as well as number. The server can send music to eight different locations including the server's, letting you use up to seven independent MCX-A10 terminals with one MCX-1000. Each client terminal comes with a graphical user interface and its own remote control, with which you can build custom playlists for artist, occasion, or anything else you can think of. The versatile built-in CD recorder lets you save your music to the server at lightning-fast speeds, create your own CD compilations, or simply play your collections of MP3 CDs. The device supports multiple bit rates in addition to variable-bit-rate (VBR) MP3 files. Storing from CD to the hard drive is easy and fully automated. Once a disc is loaded, a music-recognition database provided by Gracenote CDDB will bring up all the information associated with that disc, such as artist, album, track names, and even musical genre. Press "start" and the server will add the album to the library with nothing left for you to do but sit back and enjoy it. With Internet access (via an optional broadband router), the system is designed to let you obtain the latest CD recognition data from a Gracenote CDDB Server.  | | Hook up your broadband connection with the built-in Ethernet port. Display the server's onscreen menu on a TV or monitor with S-video or composite inputs. | What's in the Box
MusicCAST server, remote control, two AA batteries, a stereo analog-audio interconnect, an optical digital-audio interconnect, a composite-video cable, a MusicCAST system quick manual (covering system integration), and a full MCX-1000 user's manual.
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