This is "O"ver priced, though a well marketed piece of equipment. I received an Olive unit a year or so back for free, my company does reviews, as well as repairs of technological holy grails. Its not bad but 1400 for 250 gig, and 3grand for 400 gig, without swappable harddrives.. pishposh these systems arnt worth half of the cheapest one, but whatever the market will bear, and people are foolish. I wont get into the psychoacoustics of sound as per im not a phd in the field, but what i do know is that the idea of lossless is senseless, The best vinyl renditions can have the thump of the original factory! Remember vinyls a waxy plastic it bends slightly over time it melts in a perfect copy, you will hear the machines machinations cut onto the vinyl. How good are our ears people, some people are happy with mp3s,, others need live orchestral renditions, and shcd...
Lcds, still burn out more frequently than crt's so do plasmas, be it their circuitry, their heat/heat sinks,low-no lead solder those millions of tiny mirrors LOL of dlp, why do u think almost every movie theater in the country leases their dlp projector equipment( to faulty).
Ive in 11 years only seen sony trinitron and some toshiba tvs from the 80s pop in from time to time and that was after they were dropped from a moving accident.. or after a fire in a house. LOL even though most of the plastic is melted, they still run. NO LCD or PLASAM will do this..
I know from working the claims of a major warranty depot, and we do the claims of more than 90% of all the stuff out there.. from KRULL(its not so great, just really really Forklift heavy)and it is too expensive, down to your wal-mart bought rca ilo brands..
It all comes down to form and function, and your wallet, syntax-olevia and vizio are the future, china has taken all our jobs will take all our markets and produce wonderful products to take all our money... The same is true of this silly olive thing, it will be replaced by something faster... cheaper better, made in china..
Dont believe me? We fix I phones people, Iphones are made in taiwan(thats how they dropped the price 200 dollars, thats how all apple computers went down in price(quanta)), and it wont be long b4 china takes taiwan back, it was chinas b4... but as u tech savvy connoisseurs of the meaningless quest for the techy holy grail should know now by this part of the game, so what, your going to buy it anyway.
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This is "O"ver priced, though a well marketed piece of equipment. I received an Olive unit a year or so back for free, my company does reviews, as well as repairs of technological holy grails. Its not bad but 1400 for 250 gig, and 3grand for 400 gig, without swappable harddrives.. pishposh these systems arnt worth half of the cheapest one, but whatever the market will bear, and people are foolish. I wont get into the psychoacoustics of sound as per im not a phd in the field, but what i do know is that the idea of lossless is senseless, The best vinyl renditions can have the thump of the original factory! Remember vinyls a waxy plastic it bends slightly over time it melts in a perfect copy, you will hear the machines machinations cut onto the vinyl. How good are our ears people, some people are happy with mp3s,, others need live orchestral renditions, and shcd...
Lcds, still burn out more frequently than crt's so do plasmas, be it their circuitry, their heat/heat sinks,low-no lead solder those millions of tiny mirrors LOL of dlp, why do u think almost every movie theater in the country leases their dlp projector equipment( to faulty).
Ive in 11 years only seen sony trinitron and some toshiba tvs from the 80s pop in from time to time and that was after they were dropped from a moving accident.. or after a fire in a house. LOL even though most of the plastic is melted, they still run. NO LCD or PLASAM will do this..
I know from working the claims of a major warranty depot, and we do the claims of more than 90% of all the stuff out there.. from KRULL(its not so great, just really really Forklift heavy)and it is too expensive, down to your wal-mart bought rca ilo brands..
It all comes down to form and function, and your wallet, syntax-olevia and vizio are the future, china has taken all our jobs will take all our markets and produce wonderful products to take all our money... The same is true of this silly olive thing, it will be replaced by something faster... cheaper better, made in china..
Dont believe me? We fix I phones people, Iphones are made in taiwan(thats how they dropped the price 200 dollars, thats how all apple computers went down in price(quanta)), and it wont be long b4 china takes taiwan back, it was chinas b4... but as u tech savvy connoisseurs of the meaningless quest for the techy holy grail should know now by this part of the game, so what, your going to buy it anyway.