The Well-Tempered Computer, an introduction to computer audio

Saturday, December 18, 2010

Olive O6HD Music Server

Olive is taking pre-order (as of Dec 2010) for its new Music Server, the new O6HD.  Seems to provide the right tick box for sound conscious techno-audiophiles.




Features:

  • Solid aluminium enclosure with anti-vibration feet
  • Quiet passive cooling
  • Browse covers of up to 6,000 CDs on its 10.1" 800x480 pixels glass color touch screen
  • TEAC CDRW mechanism for importing CDs direct.  Drive also burn Audio CDs and MP3
  • Balanced differential DAC design with dual Burr-Brown PCM 1792 24-bit
  • Ultra low jitter master clock
  • High end sample rate converter (up to 24-but/384kHz)
  • Linear power supply with toroidal transformer for analog output stage
  • High performance current-feedback headphone amplifier
  • Ultra quiet 2TB hard drive
  • Support WAV, FLAC, AAC, and MP3
  • AES/EBU, Toslink, coaxial, HDMI and USB input
  • XLR and RCA output
  • Access to internet radio
  • Olive O2M multi-room compatible
  • Olive for Apple iPhone application for remote controlling
  • Available in black or silver