Cisco-Linksys Wireless-N Home Audio Music Player with Integrated Amp with IR Remote

by Cisco

Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 8.4 x 11.6 x 7.6 inches ; 5.3 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 6 pounds
• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S.
• ASIN: B001MYL48U
• Item model number: DMC250
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #152,117 in Electronics (See Top 100 in Electronics)
• Date first available at Amazon.com: January 7, 2009

Product Description

From the Manufacturer

From the Manufacturer

Director DMC250 Wireless-N Music Player with Integrated Amplifier

The Director accesses the digital music libraries on your computer, on a networked hard drive, or from the Internet. It’s equally at home on a bookshelf in your living room, den, or master bedroom. It has a 50-watt integrated amplifier, so it efficiently delivers rich, full sound to tower speakers. You can even connect analog devices like turntables or cassette decks to it and share your LPs and tapes throughout your home. Includes an IR remote or get the Controller to access and control it from another part of the house.

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Linksys by Cisco Wireless Home Audio: Change the Way You Experience Music

Linksys by Cisco's family of wireless home audio products make it simple to send music throughout your home Most wireless music technologies "clip" the audio signal during playback to save bandwidth, but Linksys by Cisco gives you all your music

Invite new music into your home, or let your own music out to play. Access millions of songs from Rhapsody and thousands of worldwide radio stations with RadioTime. Play from your iTunes libraries or any iPod (with optional dock, sold separately). Linksys by Cisco Wireless Home Audio makes it all possible. Wireless Home Audio is a totally new solution that lets you play and control music in every room in your home – all wirelessly. Send different music to different rooms, or the same songs throughout the house in precise synchronization. With your whole library and a world of music at your fingertips, you can set the mood for any occasion.

Easy to Set Up, Easy to Use

Create your own multi-room audio system and fill your home with music in minutes, without tearing up walls to string cables, without hiring expensive contractors. It works easily with your Wireless-N router, so you can put music in any room and control it around your house. Start with a standalone system or a portable unit, or combine them to have a customized solution for your home. You can even connect to your existing audio systems – because isn’t it time your digital music met your awesome sound system?

See It, Touch It, Hear It

Simply touch an icon on the Controller to access and control music throughout your entire house. Touch the screen of the Conductor to do the same thing. Or use the IR remote to navigate and select music. When you want to set up a playlist for a party – even different playlists for different rooms – just hop on your computer and use the PC application that’s included with your Wireless Home Audio software CD.

Quality You Can Hear, with no Bandwidth Compromises

Think you’ve heard wireless music? Think again. In wireless speakers and other audio streaming products, many of the highs and lows of an audio waveform are clipped, resulting in a sound that’s far from pristine. But Cisco applied its years of expertise in networking technology to develop an amazing audio signal processing technology that preserves the highs and lows of audio waveforms, resulting in fuller, richer sound. You’ll also have great synchronization with no echo effects, thanks to a process that ensures each Wireless Home Audio component receives and plays audio within five milliseconds. It’s music the way it was meant to be heard.

Build a Wireless Home Audio System That's Right for You

Linksys by Cisco has a wide array of wireless home audio products to fit any home. Start small with individual players and add on later, or go the distance with pre-bundled kits (each sold separately). Either way, it's as easy as it gets to fill your whole home with music.

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Linksys by Cisco Wireless Home Audio Kits Give You Everything You Need in One Box

Linksys by Cisco's series of wireless home audio kits (each sold separately) bundle everything you need for sending music throughout your home in one easy package.

	Linksys by Cisco KWHA700 Wireless Home Audio Premier Kit--Includes one touchscreen Controller, one Director, one Player, and two IR remotes. It's the ultimate bundle for getting started with setting up wireless audio in multiple rooms.
	Linksys by Cisco KWHA400 Wireless Home Audio Executive Kit--Includes one Director, one pair of Stereo Speakers, and one IR remote. Perfect for an office, dorm room, garage, or any other place where you need a simple way to bring music into the room.
	Linksys by Cisco KHWA600 Wireless Home Audio Trio Kit--Includes one touchscreen controller, two Players, and two IR remotes. Perfect when you just need a bridge between your digital music library and your existing audio equipment such as a home theater system.

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Individual Linksys by Cisco Products for Total Wireless Home Audio Customization

Build your own custom wireless audio system or add onto an existing one with these individual Linksys by Cisco players and accessories (each sold separately).

	Linksys by Cisco DMC250 Director / Wireless-N Music Player--The Director accesses the digital music libraries on your computer, on a networked hard drive, or from the Internet. It has a 50-watt integrated amplifier, so it efficiently delivers rich, full sound to tower speakers. You can even connect analog devices like turntables or cassette decks to it and share your LPs and tapes throughout your home. Includes an IR remote or get the Controller (sold separately) to access and control it from another part of the house.
	Linksys by Cisco DMP100 Player / Wireless-N Music Extender--The Player is the easiest way to bring your digital or Internet music to more rooms in your home. It’s designed to connect to an existing stereo or surround sound system. Connect it to your home theater receiver or a stereo system in another part of the house. Now everyone in your family can access the thousands of songs in your collection or millions of songs from the Internet. Includes an IR remote, or get the Controller (sold separately) to access and control it from another part of the house.
	Linksys by Cisco MCCI40 Docking Station for iPod--The Docking Station for iPod connects to the back of the Director, so you and your friends can share your favorite tunes or access podcasts or audiobooks over your entire Linksys by Cisco Wireless Home Audio system. It includes connector adapters for different types of Apple iPods. The optional Controller gives you complete control over your iPod from any part of the house allowing you to build additional playlists and create new party mixes. If you think that sounds like a great idea for a party, you may be right!
	Linksys by Cisco DMWR1000 Controller / Wireless-N Touchscreen Remote--The Controller is the one device that will change the way you interact with your music. Control your Wireless Home Audio devices from other rooms in your house. With just a few touches you can find songs and build playlists, adjust volume in every music zone and send different music to different rooms or the same songs to the entire house. Looking for a song? Touch the Rhapsody icon and conduct a search by the Artist’s name to see their catalog of work. Touch the RadioTime icon and find radio stations from around the world. The Controller sleeps when not in use to preserve its Lithium battery time and includes an AC charging cord with a mini-USB connector, so it’s ready whenever you are.
	Linksys by Cisco DMSPK50 Stereo Speaker Kit--Experience great sound wherever these high-performance stereo bookshelf speakers are placed. They’re optimized for excellent music reproduction. When paired with the Director, they’re a smart, elegant system for any room in the house.

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Other Great Linksys by Cisco Products to Work with Your Wireless Home Audio System

Linksys by Cisco Media Hubs (model #s NMH305, NMH405, and NMH410)--Access all your music files with a Linksys by Cisco Media Hub. Media Hubs are intelligent storage / server platforms designed to stream simultaneous streams of music or video. Models are available with hard drives and can store thousands of hours of video or hundreds of thousands of songs and digital photographs. Once on the home network, your Wireless Home Audio devices and the Controller will instantly discover a Linksys by Cisco Media Hub.

Linksys by Cisco Wireless-N Routers (model #s WRT610N, WRT310N, WRT160N)--Wireless-N is an ideal technology to deliver audio throughout the home in precise synchronization. With the Linksys by Cisco Wireless Home Audio system, there’s no need to hire contractors to drill holes in your walls and run cables throughout your home, to connect devices to one another. Now you have a system thats’s quick and easy to install and place virtually anywhere in your house.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

6 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Major Disappointment, March 7, 2009

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Ted Kastelic "tbonedeluxe" (San Jose, CA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Cisco-Linksys Wireless-N Home Audio Music Player with Integrated Amp with IR Remote (Electronics)

I ordered a complete Linksys system including the dual N Band wireless router to make sure I had the best wireless connection and bandwidth. The router worked fine. I spent three whole days trying to get the director/conductor to work. They wouldn't. I spent over 9 hours with three different tech support people at Linksys and still couldn't get it to work. It has been THE most frustrating experience with consumer electronics I've ever had and I've had some doozies.

Bottom line - I sent them back. Bought a Sonos system. It took 15 minutes to set up. It'w worked flawlessly. I'm using my iTouch to control it and it works better than ths Cisco controller and costs the same.

Obviously others have had a better experience, but if you look on AVS forum you'll find a lot of others had the same issues I did.

good luck

4 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Awesome!!!, January 27, 2009

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This review is from: Cisco-Linksys Wireless-N Home Audio Music Player with Integrated Amp with IR Remote (Electronics)

For a while I was looking for a way to stream all my music through the house and also have access to international radio stations without having to use my laptop to listen to them. This is a wonderful alternative to the Sonos Audio System. It is less expensive compared to Sonos, very easy to install, and I didn't even need the ipod accesory since I have my itunes library on my time capsule and the Linksys director was able to read it and access my tunes. Just make sure to install the cd first and follow the instructions exactly because I tried to skip a step configuring it wirelessly and I wasn't able to. RadioTime is awesome!
Also make sure you get the kit (with speakers) otherwise the director alone won't do it unless you have other speakers around the house that you can connect to the standard output cables.

3.0 out of 5 stars Nice sound but setup requires quite an effort, December 10, 2009

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smiles "smilesdl" (Burlington,Ma USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Cisco-Linksys Wireless-N Home Audio Music Player with Integrated Amp with IR Remote (Electronics)

I bought this device part of the Linksys Audio system because it uses standard wireless technology IEEE 802.11n-2009 and also supports g. It small size, and it is less expensive than the other systems that I researched.
The Linksys DMC 250 came with a CD to setup the device a program Linksys EasyLink Advisor got installed, and after connecting the device to the net, this program did not detect the device, after a half hour of trying... did not work. I called Linksys customer service 18665097452 and a very helpful person guided me to determine the problem.
The main thing is that the program Linksys EasyLink Advisor does not work on this part. The customer support person indicated to download a DMC250 installer from:
[...] This program did the trick and detect the device. (the file downloaded is an .iso file, cd image, so you need rar or other extractor that handles .iso files).
To connect to the wireless net you have to pay attention to the installer, it is not obvious... but the program has to ask you for the Wireless net to connect, if you don't get to this part, you missed.
In term of sound is good in general, but so far it has some "sound spikes" that I don't know yet where they are coming from... maybe a lose cable? I'll have to check what ...
RadioTime service is nice as a free service with a great number of good stations... I don't know yet how could I stream directly from my PC internet radio to the Director...