Your music. Every room.
Exactly as recorded.
Music Vault is a high-end music server for your home — your whole library, the streaming services you love, your CDs and even your vinyl, played bit-perfect to every room and tuned to sound its best in yours.
Your whole system — one tap away on the top bar
One box. Your whole music life.
A music server that disappears into your system
Music Vault keeps your music on a dedicated machine in your home and serves it, in perfect quality, to the speakers you already own — grouped into rooms you control from any phone, tablet, or the TV. No monthly software, no cloud lock‑in, no compromise on sound.
Why we built it
Why the new Music Vault?
With the arrival of Windows 11, the Music Vaults built before it couldn't be upgraded. I decided to offer my existing Music Vault customers a way to rejuvenate their vaults — and never again be concerned about Windows, Windows updates, or future versions of Windows. The new Music Vault has its own operating system, so it won't be a problem as times dance forward.
Previous Music Vaults were a conglomerate of the best hardware and software available to me. The new Music Vault is a pure Sound Science development, from the ground up — a complete Music Control Center for all of your digital music, as well as analog sources as inputs.
What it does
Everything, in one place
One complete music control center, built from the ground up by Sound Science — no subscriptions, no paid annual upgrades, and no Windows updates.
Listening
Playback from memory
Your music is loaded into the computer's fast, silent memory (a RAM disk) before it plays, instead of being read from a spinning drive. Less drive wear, less noise, and in our listening, less jitter and better sound.
Bit‑perfect, Hi‑Res & DSD
Every track played exactly as it was recorded, from CD quality to Hi‑Res and DSD — with the live bit depth and sample rate on screen.
Every room, in sync
Play different music in each room, or the same thing across the house. Each room has its own volume, and you can save your favorite groupings.
Play to almost anything
Plug your DAC straight into the Vault's USB output, or play to networked DACs, Sonos, Bluesound, Yamaha, AirPlay, and any receiver or DAC with an Ethernet input.
Sources
One search for everything
Search by artist, album, or song across your own collection plus Tidal, Qobuz, or both — all in one set of results.
Tidal & Qobuz built in
Browse them right alongside your own music, and keep their albums in your playlists.
Internet radio that feels like radio
An old‑school radio you tune with knobs: pick a country, a genre and a station from 50,000 worldwide — or your local stations — and even choose the sample rate.
Analog input
Play a turntable, tuner, or any line‑level source live through any room in the house.
Browser Audio
Send the sound from any website — YouTube, concerts, streaming video — to any room.
Records & CDs
LP ripperNew
Record your records straight into your library as 24‑bit FLAC. It waits for the needle drop, stops at the end of the side, finds the track breaks, and names the album and songs. A double album is filed as one album, with cover art. Wrong spot? One button re‑records just that side.
Smarter CD ripping
Insert a disc and it checks whether it's already in your library, then lets you copy it, play it, or both. Damaged tracks are replaced with complete, clean copies — not a best guess — so your library copy is perfect.
CDs play from memory
Play a CD and the whole disc is loaded into memory first, for the most jitter‑free playback possible.
Sound
Speaker–Room Matching
Our own room correction, tailored to your speakers' specifications. No limit on speakers or rooms, and every room can play at once, corrected. It measures your room's decay time and tells you whether you need sound absorption, where, and how much.
Cartridge emulationNew
Give any digital music — your CDs, your files, even Tidal and Qobuz — the warmth and character of vinyl, with moving‑magnet and moving‑coil cartridge voicings and different phono stages. Set per room; works with room correction.
Instant on / off
Switch room correction or cartridge emulation on and off from the top bar while the song keeps playing — then trust your ears.
Your library
Your library, your way
Browse by album, artist, or genre, A to Z or Z to A; jump to a letter; or see recently added, recently played, most played, or by format — CD quality, Hi‑Res, or DSD. Make the album wall's covers as large or small as you like.
Playlists
Mix your own music with Tidal and Qobuz tracks in the same playlist. Import and export standard M3U playlists.
Artwork & tidy‑up
Fill in missing album covers, remove duplicate albums, and mark bootlegs and live recordings.
Take it with you
Copy music to a USB drive for the car or a second system — plain files that play anywhere.
Backup & drive care
A nightly backup of your music to a backup drive, early warnings when a drive shows signs of wear, and a guided move of your music to a new drive.
Control & care
Control from anywhere
Run it from any phone, tablet, computer, or a 10‑foot TV screen on the couch — and listen to your library away from home.
Siri & AI control
Ask Siri on your iPhone to play, pause, skip or change the volume — or tell Claude, the AI assistant, what you'd like to hear.
Remote support & updates
Your Vault and our support machine are joined by a private, secure VPN. If anything ever needs a fix or an update, Sound Science does it remotely — nothing to ship, no waiting at home, and no extra charge.
Zero setup
Turn it on and it finds your music and your players. No subscriptions, and no Windows updates — ever.
The difference you hear
Room correction that makes your speakers sound like themselves — not your room.
Every room adds boom, echo, and uneven spots. Speaker–Room Matching measures yours with a microphone and builds a correction, tailored to your speakers' own specifications, so that at your seats they finally sound the way they were designed to. It only improves sound and imaging.
- Measure with a USB microphone such as a miniDSP UMIK — or a laptop or phone — at your seats.
- See how your speakers measured in your room, and what we did to improve them.
- No limit on speakers or rooms — every room can play at once, each with its own correction.
- It measures your room's decay time and tells you whether you need absorption, where, and how much.
- Flip it on and off instantly from the top bar, and trust your ears.
See it in action
The interface
Clean and fast — beautiful from the couch on a TV or from your phone. And the album wall is adjustable: pack in more covers or blow them up large, to suit your taste. Open any screen full screen and swipe or arrow through them all.
Know every record
Everything about every album — gathered for you
Open an album and the Vault already knows its story: a written description of the record, its year and label, the sound quality, and a full biography of the artist — the kind of liner‑note detail you'd expect from a high‑end system, with nothing for you to type. It's fetched automatically and kept on your Vault, so it's there even offline.
Blind Man's Zoo is the fourth studio album by American alternative rock band 10,000 Maniacs. It was released on May 4, 1989, by Elektra Records. The album contains songs addressing social issues and current events, which occurred during and before the production of the album. The track “Trouble Me” was written as a dedication to the father of the band's lead singer Natalie Merchant.
10,000 Maniacs is an American alternative rock band founded in 1981. They have released nine studio albums, six EPs, and five live albums. They achieved their most significant success between 1987 and 1993, when they released four albums that charted in the top 50 in the US: In My Tribe (1987), Blind Man's Zoo (1989), Our Time in Eden (1992), and the live album MTV Unplugged (1993).
- 1 Eat for Two 3:31
- 2 Please Forgive Us 3:24
- 3 The Big Parade 4:01
- 4 Trouble Me 3:14
- 5 You Happy Puppet 3:38
- 6 Headstrong 4:16
- 7 Poison in the Well 3:08
- 8 Dust Bowl 4:12
- 9 The Lion's Share 3:03
- 10 Hateful Hate 4:31
- 11 Jubilee 6:07
Get one
Bring Music Vault home
Music Vault is built and set up for you by Sound Science. Tell us about your system and we'll take it from there.
Interested, or already a customer?
Email Neal at neal@soundsciencecat.com or call 720‑308‑4000.
