CES 2006

Olive Introduces New Music Server/WiFi Hub

John Atkinson  |  Jan 7, 2006

A product that impressed me last year was OliveMedia Products' Symphony music server. The size and appearance of a conventional CD player, the Symphony incorporates an 80GB hard drive and a WiFi hub so that it can act as a music-file server, all for just $899. I wrote my positive impressions of the Symphony with its digital output driving my high-end rig in our mid-November eNewsletter, so I checked out Olive at CES. The company was demonstrating the new Opus, which increases the HD size to 400GB and uses a high-end D/A section. The Opus will be available mid-February for $2999.

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Submitted by Chris Barker (not verified) on January 6, 2006 - 9:00pm

For that kind of money ($3K) one could buy 10 Slim Devices Squeezebox 3's and have high-end audio in every room (including the bathroom) of a house. Stereophile needs to reveiw the SB3, its the best audio component I've bought in years!

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Submitted by Antonio Faria (not verified) on January 8, 2006 - 9:00pm

It looks like the Hifidelio by Hermstedt.

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Submitted by caveman (not verified) on March 3, 2006 - 3:37pm

You are comparing this product to a Squeezebox???? Are you insane??? Maybe you should better read CNET.

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