Description
Bluesound Vault 2i
A superb little streamer/ripper/vault! Great performance at a reasonable price with a brilliant user-interface.
Rip it. Download it. Store it. The VAULT 2i lets you rip all your CDs rapidly in bit-perfect, high-resolution formats. Store thousands of tracks on its internal ultra-quiet 2TB hard-drive that doubles as a network NAS drive. Hook up the VAULT 2i to your existing gear, pair it with a set of powered speakers or stream your digital music collection in studio-quality to Bluesound players all over the home.
- Store thousands of tracks on the VAULT 2i’s 2TB internal hard drive
- Rip your CDs in FLAC, MP3, WAV, WMA, and many other formats
- 1 Type-A port for USB connection to add your personal music collection
- Innovative 1GHz dual-core ARM Cortex processors
- Easily connect to wired home network for flawless streaming
- Control music wirelessly with the intuitive BluOS Controller app
- Stream your music libraries to multiple Bluesound players throughout the home
- Connect Bluesound to your Amazon Echo with the skill in the Alexa app and use Amazon’s Alexa voice assistant to control Players around the home.
- AirPlay 2 lets you play music or podcasts from wireless stereo components throughout your house — all in sync.
SPECIFICATIONS Bluesound Vault 2i
AUDIO
Supported File Formats
MP3, AAC, WMA, OGG, WMA-L, ALAC, OPUS
Hi-Res formats – FLAC, MQA, WAV, AIFF
Storage
2TB internal ultra-quiet hard-drive with low power consumption
Rip Formats
FLAC, MP3 (320kbps), WAV selectable
CD
Slot-loading mechanism for ripping standard audio CDs
Native Sampling Rates
32 – 192 kHz
Bit Depths
16, 24
Supported Operating Systems
Plays music from network shares on the following desktop operating systems: Microsoft Windows XP, 2000, Vista 7-10, Apple Macintosh 7-10
Performance
THD+N – 110dBA
Distortion – 0.005%
DAC
32-Bit, 192kHz
Free Internet Radio
TuneIn Radio, iHeartRadio, Calm Radio, Radio Paradise, Slacker Radio
Supported Cloud Services
Spotify, Amazon Music, TIDAL, Deezer , Qobuz, HighResAudio, Murfie, Napster, KKBox, Bugs, Taihe Music ZONE, SoundMachine.
Integration Partners
Control4, RTI, Crestron, URC, push, iPort, ELAN, Lutron, roon, Amazon Alexa Skills, Airplay 2
Album Art
JPG
NOTE:
*Some services, features and technologies will be available soon with a firmware upgrade
Christopher Baron (verified owner) –
Very helpful conversations when issues arose but disappointed that the kit did not connect without hard router connection as originally told. Also discovered that GBP200 cheaper at Richer Sounds.
Richard Audiologica (store manager) –
Thanks for the kind feedback, enjoy the Bluesound system and please let us know if we can help with anything else.
Regards,
Richard