ReQuest is blazing trails into the promised land of high-performance music servers with their new "S" and "F" series jukeboxes. The big S4.2500 gives you 1.5 terabytes of storage which is claimed to hold roughly 2500 CDs ripped in WAV format as well as a swanky touch screen controller, multiple zones via integrated web server and digital outputs for connectivity to outboard DACs. Price for the S4.2500 is a healthy $18,500 which is assuredly high enough to gain audiophile respect.

Below the big silver S4.2500 sits two F4.800 servers. At $7000, the F4.800 cuts down on the storage space and multi-room capabilities, though more units can be added in different areas of your ducal palace for musical distribution. As with the S4.2500, the F4.800 gives you pure digital outs or use the 192kHz internal DAC. And like all music servers, just pop in your CD and you're good to go.

Also new is the ARQIVE, A $2500 black box that simply acts as a backup for all your music in case, ahem, your hard drives crash, which they're known to do. The ReQuest servers don't offer support for the Apple's proprietary AAC and Lossless formats, just like every other music server out there. But WAV, FLAC, MP3 and Ogg Vorbis are kosher.