Product Description
Roughly translated, “Solo” in Italian means “alone”. You’ll really feel something however that when listening to Como Audio’s Solo, as a result of Solo unlocks a world of musical leisure. Be it tuning an Web radio station from the opposite facet of the globe, having fun with one in all 30+ million songs from Spotify Join, or streaming music by way of Bluetooth wi-fi expertise, let Solo be your music concierge.
From the Producer
Solo is way more than only a radio, it’s a “sensible speaker”. It begins with a virtually half inch-thick MDF wooden case housing a ¾” tender dome tweeter and customized 3” long-throw, 4-layer voice coil woofer with outsized magnet. The outside is expertly crafted utilizing one in all a number of furniture-grade, actual wooden veneers, or a multi-layer piano gloss end. The customized Digital Sign Processor (DSP), 30 watts per channel RMS Class D digital amplifier, Qualcomm aptX audio, and Four inputs supporting playback of hello res recordsdata lead to devoted replica of your favourite songs. Content material needn’t equal confusion. With the contact of a preset button on the anodized aluminum entrance panel, Solo will energy on and start taking part in your favourite saved station. Particular person sources may also be saved to the presets, permitting Solo to energy on and instantly revert to Spotify Join, Auxiliary, and so forth. Furthermore, preset playback is unbiased and never restricted to whichever supply is taking part in on the time. Bluetooth wi-fi expertise arrange is a snap due to Close to Subject Communication (NFC). Artist and tune data in addition to album artwork is fantastically reproduced on Solo’s 2.8” TFT coloration show, and the paintings may even be expanded to fill your entire show. Filling your house with music is a activity particularly suited to Solo. Our multi-room function permits placement of a number of Solos in a single room or in lots of rooms. Play the identical supply on all your Solos, or completely different sources on completely different Solos. Why you possibly can even dedicate one Solo for the left channel and one other for the proper channel to create a large wi-fi soundstage. All of this may occasionally appear sophisticated, however Como Audio’s free app for iOS and Android is designed to take the mystification out of multi-room. After all, a conventional distant can be equipped to regulate most of Solo’s non-multiroom features. Versatility is one other phrase that may be ascribed to Solo. With a USB enter (which additionally doubles as a wise cellphone charger or energy for an adjunct like Google’s Solid or Amazon’s Dot) to playback music from a flash drive, an optical enter to attach audio from a tv and immediately improve your TV’s sound, twin alarms, wi-fi software program updates, and an inside switching energy provide that mechanically detects the right enter voltage, Solo is a real multi-tasker. The title “Solo” is certainly a paradox as a result of whenever you grow to be one with the music, you might be by no means alone.
Our fantastically hand-crafted actual wooden cupboards can be found in quite a few finishes to match quite a few Décors. We do not imagine that your music ought to come from non-descript black containers in your house.
We created this product to not solely have quite a few “on-board” sources, however we imagine that many individuals would take pleasure in having Alexa at their beck and name. We have created a quite simple manner so as to add DOT and have all your favourite Alexa options out there to you.
We imagine that our prospects will not be capable of hold their arms off our merchandise and largely use the handy controls. Nonetheless, we additionally know that generally you’ll want to make changes from throughout the room.
Within the spirit of maintaining issues phone-free, each Solo and Duetto comes with a distant management. That mentioned, we do have a full-featured app: Como Management, which is a simple option to change issues up from wherever in the home. Accessible for iOS and Android. The app permits for: Switching between sources, Tune stations, Save station presets, Management quantity, Multi-room management, Management EQ, Play/Pause
Main shopper electronics Corridor of Fame Legend and Visionary Tom DeVesto stayed true to a single-focused mission over the past 40 years, and that’s to convey a brand new expertise to the patron electronics market – one which enhances and improves upon expectations. Whether or not he’s introducing the theater expertise to the house audiences with Introduction and Kloss Video huge display TVs, or promoting stereo techniques direct to the patron with Cambridge SoundWorks, or making excessive efficiency radios and music techniques with nice design and nice sound reflective of one other period with Tivoli Audio, Tom DeVesto by no means loses sight of the purpose: make a top quality product that helps the newest expertise — is easy to function – has distinctive design – takes up a small quantity of house – and doesn’t grow to be out of date. Tens of millions of the merchandise created by Tom DeVesto are used all over the world right now. He returns to the patron electronics market with a brand new Boston Massachusetts based mostly firm “Como Audio”. Right here he’ll proceed his purpose of bringing excessive efficiency, imaginative and prescient, design and lengthy lasting merchandise to the patron. Merchandise that can, hopefully, proceed to lift the bar on their expectations.
Describe your product in Three phrases.
Streaming multi-room radio
How did you provide you with the concept for this product?
We spent a 12 months learning the state of the audio market worldwide. It grew to become apparent that there was an enormous shift to streaming music and multi-room techniques that may be managed throughout a house from one location. Good telephones and tablets have led to a profound change in the way in which music lovers acquire and share content material. By advantage of being “related” a smartphone or pill will be the supply for numerous methods to steam music. We imagine it is a nice step within the evolution of audio. That mentioned, counting in your cellphone or pill to be the tip all be all for all of your music streaming is way lower than excellent. Your cellphone is busy sufficient. We really feel that it’s best to be capable of stream music with out the necessity for an exterior gadget so we constructed the gadget contained in the product. Simply press one button and begin streaming music. You need to use your cellphone for its supposed function and make a name. We additionally assume a product ought to look pretty much as good because it sounds so we use all metallic and wooden finishes to boost the expertise. We expect having to stay with the black and white options that the majority audio firms present is unacceptable. So as a substitute of making an attempt to promote you 5 or 6 rooms value of kit we designed a product that you simply’re actually prefer to have one in all. And, in the event you prefer it sufficient to purchase extra you possibly can hyperlink them collectively to play the identical music or completely different music in each room in your home.
What makes your product particular?
We undergo painstaking care to create fantastically styled, hand crafted, actual wooden merchandise. We even have a few of the most superior on-board expertise ever created inside our house.
What has been the very best a part of your startup expertise?
The Kickstarter expertise was overwhelming. We acquired greater than 500% in pledges above our purpose. As an unexpected profit, we ended up in dialog with our prospects whereas the product was in ultimate improvement. We discovered this to be priceless.
Multi-room music techniques with one-touch streaming and Hello-Fi sound
Numerous music sources together with FM radio, web radio, Bluetooth streaming, Wi-Fi connectivity
No cellphone or gadget wanted for many features
Hand crafted furnishings grade actual wooden veneer cupboards for actually beautiful decor matching
Customized digital sign processor, 30 watts per channel RMS digital amplifier
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