MusiCHI media player

The suite consist of 4 applications allowing you to rip, to tag, to play and to manage the libraries independent of each other. This allows you to e.g. play and rip at the same time while doing some tagging.

This suite is primarily targeted at Classical and Jazz.
It offers different styles to manage a classical and a jazz collection.
Beside the conventional tags it adds

• Period or style
• Album Artists (aka Performers)
• Instruments
• Grouping
• Composition

It comes with its own database (CHIClean) containing an impressive list of composers (> 2500).
The compositions of major composers (Bach, Beethoven, Brahms, Chopin, Dvořák, Handel, Haydn, Mahler ,Mozart,Schubert, Schumann and Vivaldi) are available.
This allows you to tag your compositions in a consistent way.
Interface supports English and Français


There is a tutorial on how to tag classical music.
It is a bit hidden in the Blog but obvious written by somebody deeply immerged in classical music.
The Zen of Classical Music Tagging (Part1)
The Zen of Classical Music Tagging (Part2)



Website: MusiCHI

Pioneer N-50

Networked audio player


Protocols:

• Airplay 
• DLNA 1.5 certified
• vTuner

Inputs:

• 192khz 24 bit Bit Asynchronous USB
• S/PDIF (Coax & Toslink), 
• Ethernet/LAN input, 
• front panel USB for Mass storage/iPod/iPhone/iPad

Output:

• RCA
• S/PDIF (24/192 Coax & Toslink)

iPhone and Android Control Application

Price: $699

Sonata media player

If you think that dbPoweramp is one of the best rippers and format converter available and JRiver the best media player, Sonata it a media player to look for as it is an integrated version of  both dbPoweramp and JRiver.
It caters for classical music by supplying tags like genre, style, composer, work, conductor, orchestra, soloists, singers, period, instrument, etc.
They build their own proprietary classical database called SonataDB that now counts +40,000 albums tagged by musicologists and that incorporates hi-res covers art.

Website
Price: €99.00

Simple Audio Roomplayer

Resolution	24 bits, no sample rates specified
Networking	Ethernet 10/100, 200MB/s PowerLine Homeplug AV
Interface	Controller software for PC/Mac, iPhone, iPod Touch.
Digital inputs	network, USB port
Digital out	no
Analog in	RCA, 3.5 mm stereo jack
Analog out	RCA, , 3.5 mm stereo jack
Operating system	not specified
Streaming protocol	not specified
Audio formats	MP3, AAC, WAV, AIFF,FLAC ALAC

Expected to be introduced fall 2011 starting at £500.

Website: Simple Audio

BitPerfect

BitPerfect is a simple high-quality audio player for OSX easy to use, audiophile grade music player that works with iTunes to deliver the highest possible sound quality.

• Unobtrusive, minimal UI
• Bit perfect output
• Exclusive (hog) mode
• Full memory playback with double-buffering to ensure continuous playback of large files
• Automatic sample rate switching
• Options for upsampling
• Gapless playback
• Integer mode (on supported DACs and supported versions of OSX)
• Support for sound check
• Playback from networked drives
• FLAC support (via Fluke or other 3rd party iTunes FLAC importers) 

BitPerfect is for sale in the Mac App Store US$ 4.99