Streaming multi-room music solutions provider CasaTunes announced on Tuesday four new products for multi-room music with the CasaTunes CT-4+, CT-4S, CT-8+ and CT-8S Streamer. The two CasaTunes Systems are complete multi-room audio systems, including the server, audio streams and audio distribution switch, with everything inside the one music system. The CasaTunes Streamers include the server and music streams, and are ideal for homes that want to add streaming music options to existing audio distribution systems.
All four new CasaTunes products are housed in a new compact chassis that is low-power and quiet. Each has analog preamp stereo outputs and one digital optical output, plus up to 10 wired or wireless Apple AirPlay rooms. All outputs are lossless CD quality. All four new products include 1TB of internal storage for the homeowner’s music.
The CT-4+ System has five internal streaming music players, and one external input for a tuner or other external source. The CT-4+ has four analog stereo outputs, and one digital output. The CT-8+ has nine internal streaming players and two external inputs, eight analog outputs, and one digital output.
The CT-4S Streamer has five internal players, four analog streams, and one digital stream. The CT-8S has nine internal players, eight analog streams, and one digital stream. All four products include a large selection of music services from Pandora, Spotify, Grooveshark, SiriusXM and many other Internet-based providers, as well as the ability to play music from the customer’s own collection of iTunes and/or Windows Media music.
CasaTunes integration is available for Control4, RTI, OnControls and Loxone home automation systems. The new CT-4+ and CT-4S start at $1,495, and the CT-8+ and CT-8S start at $1,995. All are immediately available through CasaTunes’ network of system integrator partners, or direct from CasaTunes.