DAB+ Radio
Compatible with: DAB & DAB+: 174 - 240Mhz
At last - crystal clear reception for radio and CD quality sound*.
With the MR-2000 you can:
- Search for stations by name - not frequency. It is so much easier to find your favourite station.
- Listen to DAB+ radio without interference in CD quality sound. You will especially notice the difference if you listen to AM radio.
- Listen to new DAB+ only stations - several have already launched and there is the potential for double the number of radio stations in each market, catering to more genres of music and special interest groups.
- Radio stations are able to broadcast all sorts of data with the audio broadcast such as:
- Song title & artists name
- Songs coming up
- Djs name
- Next program
- News
- Weather Information
- Traffic Information
- Sponsors/advertisers details (name, phone number, website etc)
The MR-2000 also has an FM tuner with RDS (Radio Data System) to display station information.
FM range: 87,5 - 108Mhz.
Internet tuner
Internet radio allows you to listen to your favourite radio station, wherever it is around the world. With over 12,000 radio stations broadcasting over the Internet, you can listen to stations in almost any language, music in every genre from every corner of the globe. There are over 8,000 podcasts also available for listening.
There is currently 179 countries with radio stations available in 70 different languages.
The MR-2000 users the Frontier Venice 6 chip. Searching for radio stations can be done by Region/Country or by Genre. This allows you to find what you are looking for quickly and easily out of the 12,000+ available Internet Radio stations around the world. You can also create your own favourite radio stations list via the Frontier webpage. It allows you to classify your favourites into folders how ever you want to—by genre, by country, by language http://www.wifiradio-frontier.com/
Music play via USB drive
Copy your favourite MP3 files onto a USB thumb drive (currently available up to 64 GB or about 16,000 songs—that’s over a month of non stop listening) and play them through the MR-2000—and banish your CDs to the closet—no more storage problems. Note—a USB thumb drive is not included.
Or you can connect a UPnP drive (Universal plug and play hard drive). This is an external hard drive which must be certified as “UPnP” such as the one below. By plugging a hard drive such as this you can have 100’s of gigabytes of music played directly through your home hi-fi syste,
You can select your music by genre, album, artist, & star rating. This makes it easy to find the music you are looking for and set up playlists for parties and different users.
Connecting to a home network
The MR-2000 allows you to connect to a home computer network via a standard Ethernet connection (RJ45) or via its built in wireless card compatible with the G & N standards. This allows you to stream all the music stored on your computer (or a hard drive connected to your PC) through the MR-2000 through to your sound system. The MR-2000 has a connection wizard allowing you easily find available networks and connect to them. It can work with the following wireless encrypted networks: WEP, WPA, WPA2.
The MR-2000 not only allows you to search via the directories on your computer but also via the playlist functionality - for example Artist, Album, Rating, & Genre. This allows you to search through large collections of music quickly.
Important notes on wireless connections. The MR-2000 has both a Wired Ethernet & Wireless connection capability. A Wired Connection is recommended. Wireless connections can be unreliable as they are subject to interference from home appliances and neighbouring networks. It is not recommended to use the MR-2000 in a wireless capacity unless it is in the same room or possibly the next room as the wireless modem (but this will be dependant on room size and building materials). Using wireless connectivity is more likely to have drop outs or being unable to connect to the network than wired connections
Please note: DAB & DAB+ are different formats. This tuner is compatible with both. DAB has been available in the UK for over 10 years but most older radios are DAB only and not compatible with the Australian format, DAB+. The MR-2000 is capable of playing CD quality music. The quality of the sound you hear will be a factor of the broadcast quality of the radio station you are listening to (for example: if the radio station decides to broadcast in a lower quality so it can broadcast multiple stations on their available bandwidth) and the quality of your amplifier and speakers.
