Sony’s latest Hi-Fi player to have hit the market, the Giga Juke NAS-50HDE, will invariably surprise you with its distinct lack of curves, and unusual name of course. Instead, it looks sharp in a silver and black outfit, where it looks all set to rock the party! It in all likelihood is quite probable that the manufacturers have borrowed a point from the phrase that says having curves is a curse. The design in fact looks to be inspired by people who like living their lives on the edge, and who are so enigmatic and eccentric that you can maybe hate them, but you just cannot ignore them!

The Giga Juke NAS-50HDE is not your average players that sell for peanuts, as this device you set you back by quite a few quid. You needn’t have to worry though, as it has a large arsenal to justify the astronomical price tag. The most vital component of the unit is the 80 GB hard disk, which is simply awesome when it comes to ripping off CDs. The Sony NAS-50HDE needs a cool four minutes to rip your average CDs, while the unique and included Gracenote music database simply tags your music with the correct artist, album and song information. Then, it also has the line-in recording feature which will be of great help if you have any music on vinyl, cassette or any other analogue format.

Another one of the unit’s very prominent features is how it can inherently detect the quality of the song being played and automatically add the correct artist and track information without any input from the user. Moreover, even when the CDs you are searching for are not in the internal database, you can still get access to them via the Gracenote Web site, provided you connect it to the Web via Ethernet.