Escient FireBall SE-80 Digital Music Manager

by Escient

Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 17.4 x 11.9 x 4.6 inches ; 17 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 17 pounds
• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S.
• ASIN: B000N96BYC
• Item model number: SE-80
• Batteries: 2 AAA batteries required. (included)
• Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #118,471 in Electronics (See Top 100 in Electronics)
• Date first available at Amazon.com: April 18, 2005

Product Description

Amazon.com Product Description

The FireBall SE-80 is the perfect solution for entry-level single room and IR-based multi-room distributed music installations. It features an 80-gigabyte hard drive that provides storage for large music collections. Instant Music Access instantly finds and plays any genre, artist, title, or song in your music collection. The built-in CD player will play any standard CD and retrieve the cover art, artist, title and song list on-screen. Automatic CD Identification automatically accesses the Gracenote online CD database for the best possible CD data matching in the world. Multi-Zone Support lets you connect one FireBall to another FireBall to share the music, double the storage capacity, create a second music zone, or add FireBall MP-150 players for music in every room.

Product Description

The award winning Escient FireBall Digital Music Manager is now available at a more affordable price. You get the same great features as the current FireBall Music Managers, including: extremely easy to use on-screen interface, 80GB of music storage, automatic disc recognition, built-in CD-RW drive, free Internet Radio, network file sharing, web browser control and streaming, multi-zone support and several new features such as a PDA web interface, WMA audio, Shoutcast Internet Radio, gapless song playback, enhanced widescreen user interface, and the ability to "skin" the interface for the ultimate customization for your customers - all at a new low price. The FireBall SE-80 is the perfect solution for entry-level single room and IR based multi-room distributed music installations.

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Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Essential Component for Your Stereo, July 20, 2007

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Electronic Gadgetphile (St. Paul, MN) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Escient FireBall SE-80 Digital Music Manager (Electronics)

I bought a new house and first became aware of the SE-80 when the Home Theater installer recommended it. I was initally skeptical and not too willing to pay close to $1,000 for what I considered an iPod on steroids. Ultimately, I relented and went with the installer's advice and included it in the system. I am really glad that I did because the SE-80 does everything I hoped for and more. In my installation the unit is hooked up to the home network, Sony XBR LCD and stereo system. I have numerous albums loaded on the 80 GB hard drive and was able to do it wirelessly from the iTunes application on my laptop. You just network into the SE-80, open the folder for adding music and drag and drop the mp3 albums out of iTunes into the folder. You can then call up the albums on the TV and select the ones you want and you're good to go. Another feature I really like is the Internet Radio which brings in numerous stations from across the net including several choices of NPR which is difficult to receive OTA where I live. All in all I really like the unit, the documentation is great, it is simple to use - only wish it was a bit less expensive. Having said all of that, I would buy it again.

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Not what I expected, October 5, 2009

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Herbert H. Newton "newtwahoo" (Florida) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Escient FireBall SE-80 Digital Music Manager (Electronics)

Liked the features of the unit so tried it out. Loaded 220 Cd's and the red light goes a flashing. Reboot etc to no avail. Returned to Escient. My UPS ticket said it arrived on a Monday. The repaired unit was on my doorstep Wednesday PM !! Escient said they replaced the HD and upgraded my power supply.( apparently the one whose fan runs every half hour even when it was off,,annoying feature)Saved all my previous loaded music tho.
Good news so far...Then started to load my remaining 100 or so CD's. Program locks up.Cant get out of the one window,,, would continue to load music but loading progress would indicate 32 minutes to load a 48 minute CD !!
That was it for me.Returned for a refund.

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars nice product, expensive to repair !!, March 25, 2008

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Robert Mcneil (philadelphia, pa United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Escient FireBall SE-80 Digital Music Manager (Electronics)

I bought this a little over a year ago, the mother board just died -- out of the blue, no warning. The escient customer service is very very good (they dont out source to india, ireland etc). It cost me almost $300 to have it repaired !!. So, like i said, its an excellent product, but for almost $1000 I think they might be able to cut someone a break.