High Performance Audio
Stereo East presents a wide range of the world’s best components for enjoying the wonders of music. Our wide range of audio components offers you products that provide great sound, fit well with any home decorative style, and are easy to use. A properly chosen high performance stereo system from Stereo East will bring you many years of listening pleasure.
Stereo East sales professionals have over 100 combined years of experience. We have solutions designed to fit every lifestyle. When it comes to your favorite music or movies, the sound is the most important thing.
We Deal with the Best
In over 25 years of business we have seen hundreds of companies come and go, many with glowing “product of the month” reviews. We represent only those companies who meet the test of time and who back up their products with great service.
Let our years of knowledge and experience assist you in creating a system that can grow with you as you experience the joy high performance home audio has to offer! We can also integrate an outstanding music system into your home theater and provide ways to get the best possible music reproduction from your iPod, CD player and many other sources. Visit our showroom, bring your favorite musical selections, and treat your senses to an unparalleled musical experience.
Computer Audio
Putting your music and related content on some form of storage device is common today. Computer audio, the iPhone and the iPod have revolutionized how we interact with and manage our music. It is no longer necessary to organize and catalog all your CDs. You can store all your music on a single inexpensive hard drive. Various software programs allow you to interface with your music in ways most of us would never have dreamed possible. We can even improve the sound quality and stream music wirelessly from one room to the next.
Most people have never experienced what digital music can sound like through a good stereo or theater system. Once you do, it will open up a new passion for technology and you will fall in love with your favorite music all over again!
Lossless Audio
The key to achieving the best sound from our computer or mobile device is to maximize how the music landed on our computers to begin with. If you are putting your legacy CD collection on your computer, be sure to set up iTunes to rip in Apple Lossless. Ripping is the act of taking music from an outside source and recording it onto your computer.
If you use Windows Media or other software manager, use WAV or FLAC as the setting for ripping information onto the hard drive. This will capture much more of the music on those discs than the default setting of 128kbs or MP3. Setting your computer to rip in lossless is as simple as clicking on the advanced tab in the preferences menu. Lossless will take up more space on your hard drive, but the difference in sound quality is well worth it.
Docking Stations
The next step after we have transferred these higher performance files to our computer is to connect our iPod to one of those new docking stations that have come on the market. Connecting the docking station to a stereo input with a simple audio cable allows you to enjoy your iPod music in ways that rival and even surpass a really good set of headphones.
Apple TV
Using a device like an Apple TV will add control and distribution to your iPod or iPhone. Connect the two devices, program that input on your home theater receiver to look for PCM audio; set it to play it back in two-channel or a music surround mode and prepare to be amazed!
Connecting the Apple TV’s video outputs to your home theater gear provides complete control of your entire music collection from the iPod, in the palm of your hand. There are even Google Android applications available to mirror the same kind of control.
Digital to Analog Conversion
Another huge improvement computer audio can make to any music or listening experience is to connect to a new type of device that is called a USB DAC (Digital to Analog Converter). This is a device that pulls the digital music directly off your hard drive via a USB cable, then decodes the music into two-channel audio and passes it on to your stereo system.
Companies such as ARCAM provide these kinds of components. The sound will astound you if your stereo system is up to the task. There is nothing like sitting in front of your system with instant access to every single CD you have ever owned. More important, is being able to distribute that new and improved sound created by a DAC, all around the house.
The Future of Music
Digitally stored music is the future of music as we know it. The first step is obviously just a good stereo system, but whatever method you decide on, enjoy the music, and be sure to have a good back-up system in place for all of your music files and more.
