Tag archive: Olive

High-definition music servers have been the bailiwick of serious audiophiles for a little while, with music fans spending sometimes outrageous sums of money to get their music collections converted to a high-definition audio format (often 24-bit, 192KHz, compared to the 16-bit/44.1KHz of a normal CD), buy pricey D/A conversion and low-distortion amplifiers and speaker sets just so they can experience the subtlest nuances of some of the… Read More

Face it: Your CD collection is starting to look a little antiquated. It’s okay, you and that tower of discs had a good run – and Thriller is still a good album – but it’s time to move on and go digital. How you go about making the transition depends on a lot of factors. Many companies have attempted to smooth the tedious process of ripping CDs to MP3s with a desktop computer, with some even going so far as to do it for you if you mail CDs to… Read More

You are a consumer gadget hound. You have the cool cell phone, the high-definition entertainment system, the keyless start on your new car. You also own an iPod and an Xbox 360, two top-selling products developed byrival companies Apple and Microsoft. Wouldn't it be great if you could play some of the audio content stored on your iPod through your Xbox 360 so you could enjoy it over yourstate-of-the-art entertainment system? There is a… Read More

Digital audio systems developer Olive Media Products today unveiled a new CD player which comes with an integrated 400GB hard drive. The new audiophile-targeted Opus is priced at $2,999 and should be available this month. The Opus, said Olive, is designed to rip CDs placed into it in either lossless quality or MP3 format and then store the music files on its hard drive. As the Opus is geared towards high end audio users, features include… Read More

  Audiophile focused digital audio equipment company Olive today announced a new addition to their product line up. The new Musica wireless music center will be available in October for $1,099. The Musica is designed to record, tag and archive a user’s CDs to the device’s 160GB hard drive, which can hold up to 40,000 songs. It is designed to fit into a home entertainment system, burn and copy music CDs, record music from analog sources,… Read More

Here's yet another new HiFi component trying to crowd itself into your home entertainment system. The Olive Media Products Symphony, a hard drive based unit with a wireless function, will be available for purchase in mid-August at $899. The Symphony, Olive said, is a wireless digital music center which produces a quality high fidelity sound through proprietary technology which combines a 32-bit IBM Power PC for processing of audio in… Read More