ART+SOUND Smart Zone 4 User manual

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Smart Zone 4
USER MANUAL
Thank your for buying our Smart Zone 4 multi-room system. We hope you’ll enjoy it for years to come. Please
read these instructions carefully and keep this manual for later reference. .
1. WARNINGS AND SAFETY
• To prevent fire or electric shocks, the device must not be exposed to rain or humidity.
• For your own safety: to prevent electric shocks do not remove the housing.
• Do not try to repair any malfunctioning parts of the device yourself. Ask a professional expert to do this for you.
• When plugged into the mains, the device remains electrically charged even when switched o.
2. WHAT’S IN THE BOX
Check that the packaging contains the following parts:
• Smart Zone 4
• User Manual
• Ethernet Cable
• Rack Mount Brackets x2
• 12V/2A Power Adapter
Table of contents
1. Warnings and safety
2. What’s in the box
3. Introduction
4. System Requirements
5. Interface and Functions
5.1 Front Panel
5.2 Back Panel
5.3.Side Panel
6. Placing the Smart Zone 4
7. Zone Connection
7.1 Connect to external amplifier
or AV receiver
7.2 Connect to external subwoofer
7.3 Trigger Control
7.4 Connect to USB storage device
7.5 Connect to audio playback device
7.6 RS232 Serial Port
7.7 Connect to network
8. Download 4Stream APP
9. Using Smart Zone 4
9.1 Selecting a zone
9.2 Play same music to multiple rooms
9.3 Listen to online music
9.4 Spotify
9.5 Airplay
9.6 Listen to local music
9.7 Music Playlist
9.8 Play music from line in
9.9 Play music from Optical/Coaxial in
9.10Play music from PC
9.11 Changing Output channels
10. Device Settings
11. Firmware Update
12. Specifications
13. Warranty conditions

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1. Power Button
2. Streaming Indicator – LED on when streaming
3. Input Source Indicator – LED Color: White for Network Audio, Green for Line in 1 (Zone Line in), Yellow for Line
in 2 (Master Line in), Magenta for Master Optical in, Cyan for Master Coaxial in, Red for USB
4. Network Indicators – LED on when network is available
3. INTRODUCTION
The Smart Zone 4 is a multi-room system that enables you to enjoy your favorite music anywhere in your home.
Smart Zone 4 contains 4 audio streamers for you to use as audio source, you can easily play music from various
online music services, your phone or tablet, NAS and other sources by using the 4Stream app on your iOS or
Android device.
• Multi-room audio function: play dierent music in dierent rooms or the same music in every room.
• Easy network setup: Connect to your home network and it is ready to use.
• Rich I/O interface: Each zone has both digital and analog inputs and outputs. There is also a master source
input that all zones can use.
• Compatible with Artsound Smart Hyde. You can combine the Smart Zone 4 with one or more Smart Hyde ampli-
fiers and control everything from the same app.
4. SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS
HIGH SPEED INTERNET CONNECTION:
The Smart Zone 4 needs a wired ethernet internet connection to stream music from online music services and to
get online firmware updates. You may experience performance issues with slower internet connections.
WIRELESS ROUTER:
In order to use the Smart Zone 4, you will need to have a working Wi-Fi network in your home, since the control
app on your mobile device needs to be in the same network as the streamer.
CONTROL APP – 4STREAM:
You can control the Smart Zone 4 using our free 4Stream app on any recent iOS and Android device.
5. INTERFACE AND FUNCTIONS
5.1 FRONT PANEL

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1. Zone ID Switch for RS232 port program use.
1. Pre-Out
2. Line In (Line 1 in app)
3. Digital Coaxial Out
4. Digital Optical Out
5. 12v Trigger out
6. USB port
7. Master Line In (Line in 2 in app)
8. Master Digital Coaxial In
9. Master Digital Optical In
10. Master 12V Trigger out
11. Reset button
12. ass Through (RS232 port)
13. RS232 Port
14. Network input
15. Network output
16. 1DC input
5.2 BACK PANEL
5.3 SIDE PANEL
6. PLACING THE SMART ZONE 4
The Smart Zone 4 is an audio streamer and needs to be used with an external device that oers audio amplifica-
tion. For example: Artsound AMP1250 or 2 x Artsound PRL1204 can be used. You should place the Smart Zone 4
near the amplification device you want to connect to.
Smart Zone 4 is designed to fit in a 1U equipment rack for easy installation. Attach the included rack mounting
brackets on each side of the unit if you want to mount it in a standard 19 inch equipment rack.
• Remove the two screws on each side of the unit
• Align the rack mounting brackets with the screw holes and screw back the screws, make sure they are tightly
secured.

AUDIO
IN
R L
COAXIAL
IN
OPTICAL
IN
———— AUDIO ———— ———— AUDIO ———— IN
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7. ZONE CONNECTION
You can play the same audio source
in all four zones at the same time,
you can also play dierent audio
sources in dierent zones.
7.1 CONNECT TO EXTERNAL AMPLIFIER
OR AV RECEIVER
Connect the LINE OUT output to the input on your
amplifier or AV receiver using the appropriate cable.
The Smart Zone 4 supports both analog output (RCA)
and digital output (Optical & Coaxial).
7.2 CONNECT TO EXTERNAL SUBWOOFER
Connect the LINE OUT “L” output to the input on your
active subwoofer or subwoofer amplifier.
Your amplifier or
AV receiver
Subwoofer with
built-in amplifier
ZONE 1
ZONE 1
ZONE 2
ZONE 2
ZONE 3
ZONE 3
ZONE 4
ZONE 4

Analog device
R L
———— A
U
DI
O
OU
T ———
—
Digital device
———— A
U
DI
O
OU
T ———
—
COAXIAL OUT OPTICAL OUT
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7.3 TRIGGER CONTROL
If the audio amplifier connected to the Smart Zone
4 has a trigger input connector, you can connect it
to the TRIGGER OUT of Smart Zone 4 using a 3.5mm
cable (not included). A12V/150mA signal is output
from the TRIGGER OUT port.
Use a mono mini-plug cable for connecting the TRIG-
GER OUT port. Do not use a stereo mini-plug cable.
7.4 CONNECT TO USB STORAGE DEVICE
To play music stored on a USB storage device, just plugin a USB storage device containing music files to the USB
port of the Zone you want to play it with.
7.5 CONNECT TO AUDIO PLAYBACK DEVICE
Connect the LINE IN in each zone or LINE IN, COAXIAL IN, OPTICAL IN in the master input area to an audio
playback device, it can be a TV, CD player, mixer, portable music player or any device with audio output using the
same connector.
In the app, LINE IN in each zone is represent as Line in 1, LINE IN in the master input area is represented as Line
in 2.
7.6 RS232 SERIAL PORT
RS232 serial port is reserved for connection to smart home control unit to control the Smart Zone 4. You can use
the Pass-Through port to connect to another Smart Zone 4 for group control.
The Switches on the side are used to assign a device ID for each zone to let the control unit distinguish each
zone.
TRIGGER IN
USB memory
device

4STREAM
4STREAM
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7.7 CONNECT TO NETWORK
Connect the Smart Zone 4 to your home router using a LAN cable to add it into your home network. You can use
the NETWORK OUT port to connect another device to the same network.
8. DOWNLOAD 4STREAM APP
The 4Stream app is the controller of the whole system.
Install 4Stream app in your mobile device and you can
control and stream music anywhere in your home.
The application supports English, Spanish, French, German,
Italian, Portuguese, Korean, Simplified Chinese, Traditional
Chinese and Japanese.
You can download 4Stream app for iOS or Android by
searching “4Stream” in App Store or Google Play Store.
9. USING THE SMART ZONE 4
Once you have connected your Smart Zone 4 to
your network and have installed the 4Stream app on
your mobile device, you can start playing music to
dierent rooms. You can listen to dierent music in
dierent room or the same music in all rooms in sync.
9.1 SELECTING A ZONE
In 4Stream app you will see all the connected devices
in the same network.
1. Select the device you want to control, the select-
ed device will have a green bar that appears on
the left side.
2. Swipe to the left to open the list of music
sources.
3. Select an online or local music source from the
list to start streaming your music.
ROUTER
SMART HOME
CONTROL UNIT

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9.2 PLAY SAME MUSIC TO MULTIPLE ROOMS
You can play the same music to multiple rooms simul-
taneously by pulling a device over another device to
from a group. The device list on top of the group is
the master device, the music streaming to the master
device will also play back on the other devices in the
same group.
If your music source is from the master source input,
there is no need to group the devices, since all the
devices can access the master source input.
*There will be a small delay between the audio
source and the 4 zones when in multizone mode, all
4 zones will be in sync with no delay between them.
*There is no delay when you use the master source
input as input source for the 4 zones. No need to
group them together, ungroup them to play in sync
with the input source.
9.3 LISTEN TO ONLINE MUSIC
Smart Zone 4 can work with various online streaming
music services like Spotify, Tidal, Qobuz, Deezer,
Amazon Music, QQ Music, TuneIn, vTuner Internet
radio, iHeartradio. You can easily stream music or
playlist from your account wirelessly and play on your
home audio system.
9.4 SPOTIFY
To use Spotify, you need to have a Spotify premi-
um account. You will find the dierent zones from
the Smart Zone 4 in the device list in the Spotify
application.
9.5 AIRPLAY
The device supports Airplay1, you can choose Airplay
in iOS device and play music.

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9.6 LISTEN TO LOCAL MUSIC
Smart Zone 4 can stream local music stored in your
mobile phone or tablet, USB storage drive, NAS using
DLNA protocol or UPnP/DLNA 3rd party software.
Click on “My Music” to select the local device you
want to play from.
*Our system only supports NAS systems using DLNA
protocol.
9.7 MUSIC PLAYLIST
You can create music a playlist and add local music to
the list for streaming.
9.8 PLAY MUSIC FROM LINE IN
• Connect an external audio source to line-in port
using RCA cable.
• Choose line in mode in the 4Stream application to
switch to line in mode.
• Line in 1 is the line in port of the current zone, Line
in 2 is the line in port
• Of the master input source.
9.9 PLAY MUSIC FROM OPTICAL/COAXIAL IN
• Connect an external audio source to Optical/
Coaxial in of the master input source.
• Choose Optical or Coaxial in the 4Stream
application to switch to the corresponding mode.
9.10 PLAY MUSIC FROM PC
You can stream audio stored in your Mac and
Windows PC by using iTunes, 3rd party UPnP/DLNA
streaming program like Foobar2000, Music Bee or
Serviio.
9.11 CHANGING OUTPUT CHANNELS
You can change the output channel of the zone, you
can change between Left channel only, Right channel
only or Stereo. You can set Zone 1 to play Left
channel and Zone 2 to play right channel, group them
together to make stereo. By default it is set to Stereo.

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10. DEVICE SETTINGS
RENAME
You can rename each zone to dierent name to fit
your needs.
SPEAKER INFO
You will see the device information like device’s IP
address, Device name, Firmware Version and Restore
Factory Default.
PRESET
You can store 10 dierent playlist or radio stations to
the Preset list for quick access.
Any list or station with the speaker icon can be
preset. Click on the speaker icon and you can assign
it to the preset list.
RESTORE FACTORY SETTINGS
Long press the Reset button for 8 sec to restore the
device to factory default settings.
This will reset all the zone names, volume and current
input source.
ALARM CLOCK
Setup music alarm clock, music can come from Preset
list, vTuner Internet Radio, iHeartRadio, Napster,
Tidal, Spotify, Deezer and NAS
SLEEP TIMER
Setup a Countdown timer to stop the music playback.
EQ
You can control treble and bass of the device.
11. FIRMWARE UPDATE
Whenever a new firmware is available, you will be notified by a “new” icon. Click on the “new” icon to begin
firmware update, it will take couple minutes.
It is recommended to update firmware when it is available, it might not only correct bugs or improve perfor-
mance, but also might add new features or services.

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12. SPECIFICATION
Audio Input Line in Max 2V RMS input
USB USB Playback
Audio Output Line out Max 2V RMS output
SPDIF Optical 44.1KHz/16Bit output, multiroom function
SPDIF Coaxial
Master Input Source
Audio Input Line in Max 2V RMS input
SPDIF Optical Max 192KHz/24Bit Sample Rate Decode
PCM encoding
SPDIF Coaxial
Network
Ethernet In RJ45
Ethernet Out RJ45 Output to other device to share the network
General
Power 12V DC in (12V/2A)
Master Trigger Output, Trigger Output on each zone
Control Interface Dual-way RS232
Dimensions 43x20x4.5 (5.3 with footer) cm
13. WARRANTY CONDITIONS
2 year warranty from date of purchase. The warranty is limited to the repair of replacement of the defective
material insofar as this defect is a result of normal use and the device has not been damaged. Artsound is not
responsible for any other costs that ensue as a result of the defect (e.g. transport). For details, please consult our
general terms and conditions of sale.

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