Sony NAC-HD1 home audio system

The Sony NAC-HD1 is a new breed of home audio systems that plays back uncompressed digital audio with panache, thanks to its 250GB hard drive that offers ample space for your digital music collection. That space is large enough to hold approximately 380 full HiFi albums. The NAC-HD1 can encode audio from a CD or DVD in an uncompressed linear PCM format on-the-fly, and additional features include a 4.3″ color display, a one-touch button for file transfer to a connected portable audio player, and a copy of Gracenote’s CDDB album database. You have the option of throwing in a WiFi adapter to keep the information in the database current. Too bad it takes around an hour to copy a CD over to the hard drive without any compression. The NAC-HD1 will hit Japan this May 21st for approximately $890.