What It Is: A high-end music-management system in the form of a touch screen that’s connected to a set-top box with a CD player/ripper/burner and up to 1-terabyte of storage.

Who It’s For: Wall Street types, lawyers, Internet moguls or anybody else who likes to spend tens of thousands of dollars on custom installation audio-video setups in their homes.

Why It’s Worthy: The system is designed to play and digitize music in the Windows Media Audio (WMA) Lossless format, which is essentially equal to CDs and perfect for those with discerning, audiophile systems. The smart, intuitive touch-screen interface — which lets you drag and drop albums into playlists and offers Napster/Rhapsody-esque features such as the ability to create musical lineups with weird keywords such as “dark” and “violent” — couldn’t be easier to use. The CD ripper is fast, and, coupled with the touch screen, is a pleasure to anyone who’s sick of clicking and mousing when doing the same task on a computer. A new link-up with HD Music Store MusicGiants lets you buy albums and tracks right on the system, or just order up a pre-selected set of tracks personally selected for you by the store’s Concierge service and delivered on a separate hard drive.

Our Only Complaint: The price — at $6,000, this thing is only for those with deep pockets. You can’t use any of the music you rip to the Qsonix drive on portable players other than the iPod. And though you can stream music on your Qsonix system to other PCs, Xbox 360s and media extenders in the house, you can’t do the reverse (stream music off your PC to your Qsonix-connected audio system).

How to Get It: Starts at $6,000 for the 250-gigabyte model, qsonix.com; MusicGiants Concierge service: Starts at $500, musicgiants.com