http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/19/olive-4hd-makes-the-audiophiles-music-server-more-audiophilic/ Engadget Comments for Olive 4HD makes the audiophile's music server more audiophilic http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/19/olive-4hd-makes-the-audiophiles-music-server-more-audiophilic/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/19/olive-4hd-makes-the-audiophiles-music-server-more-audiophilic/Nov 19th 2009 10:00AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/19/olive-4hd-makes-the-audiophiles-music-server-more-audiophilic/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/19/olive-4hd-makes-the-audiophiles-music-server-more-audiophilic/
A true audiophile wouldn't use Monster Cables. Go ahead and pop those ipod ear buds back in and keep rockin out to your mp3s at 128 kbit/s.]]>Nov 19th 2009 10:11AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/19/olive-4hd-makes-the-audiophiles-music-server-more-audiophilic/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/19/olive-4hd-makes-the-audiophiles-music-server-more-audiophilic/
ps Rick James, everyone knows that true audiophiles don't listen to anything digital, if its not recorded to light waves, it doesn't sound good enough.]]>Nov 19th 2009 10:54AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/19/olive-4hd-makes-the-audiophiles-music-server-more-audiophilic/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/19/olive-4hd-makes-the-audiophiles-music-server-more-audiophilic/Nov 19th 2009 11:14AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/19/olive-4hd-makes-the-audiophiles-music-server-more-audiophilic/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/19/olive-4hd-makes-the-audiophiles-music-server-more-audiophilic/Nov 19th 2009 4:05PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/19/olive-4hd-makes-the-audiophiles-music-server-more-audiophilic/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/19/olive-4hd-makes-the-audiophiles-music-server-more-audiophilic/Nov 19th 2009 10:06AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/19/olive-4hd-makes-the-audiophiles-music-server-more-audiophilic/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/19/olive-4hd-makes-the-audiophiles-music-server-more-audiophilic/You can fix part of it by going to

http://www.danielgary.net/engadget.user.js

with the latest version of Google Chrome. That replaces Times New Roman with Calibri and increases font size for the comments. ]]>Nov 19th 2009 10:17AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/19/olive-4hd-makes-the-audiophiles-music-server-more-audiophilic/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/19/olive-4hd-makes-the-audiophiles-music-server-more-audiophilic/
Couldn't agree more. Design-wise it's a complete mess. Even the most inexperienced designer show know that you can't use a dozen different fonts in the same page, all types and sizes, most of them too small and unintelligible.
I used to scan the site but now I'm switching to the RSS: best of all I'll [hopefully] avoid the blockhead's quote of the minute.]]>Nov 19th 2009 10:19AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/19/olive-4hd-makes-the-audiophiles-music-server-more-audiophilic/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/19/olive-4hd-makes-the-audiophiles-music-server-more-audiophilic/Nov 19th 2009 11:50AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/19/olive-4hd-makes-the-audiophiles-music-server-more-audiophilic/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/19/olive-4hd-makes-the-audiophiles-music-server-more-audiophilic/
Told like a true Engadget fanboi.]]>Nov 19th 2009 3:02PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/19/olive-4hd-makes-the-audiophiles-music-server-more-audiophilic/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/19/olive-4hd-makes-the-audiophiles-music-server-more-audiophilic/Nov 19th 2009 10:09AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/19/olive-4hd-makes-the-audiophiles-music-server-more-audiophilic/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/19/olive-4hd-makes-the-audiophiles-music-server-more-audiophilic/Same for me...on classic i log in and it works. but when i click the HD button on title bar im not logged in anymore and I can log in to comment.]]>Nov 19th 2009 11:22AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/19/olive-4hd-makes-the-audiophiles-music-server-more-audiophilic/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/19/olive-4hd-makes-the-audiophiles-music-server-more-audiophilic/Nov 19th 2009 10:10AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/19/olive-4hd-makes-the-audiophiles-music-server-more-audiophilic/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/19/olive-4hd-makes-the-audiophiles-music-server-more-audiophilic/Nov 19th 2009 10:20AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/19/olive-4hd-makes-the-audiophiles-music-server-more-audiophilic/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/19/olive-4hd-makes-the-audiophiles-music-server-more-audiophilic/Nov 19th 2009 10:27AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/19/olive-4hd-makes-the-audiophiles-music-server-more-audiophilic/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/19/olive-4hd-makes-the-audiophiles-music-server-more-audiophilic/Nov 19th 2009 10:31AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/19/olive-4hd-makes-the-audiophiles-music-server-more-audiophilic/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/19/olive-4hd-makes-the-audiophiles-music-server-more-audiophilic/Nov 19th 2009 10:52AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/19/olive-4hd-makes-the-audiophiles-music-server-more-audiophilic/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/19/olive-4hd-makes-the-audiophiles-music-server-more-audiophilic/Nov 19th 2009 10:57AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/19/olive-4hd-makes-the-audiophiles-music-server-more-audiophilic/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/19/olive-4hd-makes-the-audiophiles-music-server-more-audiophilic/Besides that, one should also ask:
- How many audio setups are able to reproduce better-than-CD quality?
and
- How many people are able to hear better-than-CD quality?

Unless all three requirements are met, you won't be able to enjoy the better-than-CD quality. In practical terms, better-than-CD quality is relevant to about 0.01% of the population, if that. (Yes, I'm being realistic here. I actually happen to know what bit depth and sample rate do in terms of sound.)]]>Nov 19th 2009 11:03AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/19/olive-4hd-makes-the-audiophiles-music-server-more-audiophilic/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/19/olive-4hd-makes-the-audiophiles-music-server-more-audiophilic/Nov 19th 2009 11:04AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/19/olive-4hd-makes-the-audiophiles-music-server-more-audiophilic/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/19/olive-4hd-makes-the-audiophiles-music-server-more-audiophilic/Nov 19th 2009 11:16AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/19/olive-4hd-makes-the-audiophiles-music-server-more-audiophilic/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/19/olive-4hd-makes-the-audiophiles-music-server-more-audiophilic/
Any popular music mastered since the mid '90s is destroyed by dynamic compression anyway.

The sad fact is that there is no reason to buy high-quality equipment for commercially recorded music anymore. The record companies have ruined every popular-music recording for well over a decade, and they're going through their archives and destroying generations of classics with "remastering".]]>Nov 19th 2009 1:38PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/19/olive-4hd-makes-the-audiophiles-music-server-more-audiophilic/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/19/olive-4hd-makes-the-audiophiles-music-server-more-audiophilic/
It’s a symbiotic relationship -- if you’re as blown away with the quality as we were when we listened to their recordings on our in-house system (the Olive 4HD paired with Thiel CS1.6 speakers and a $300 Denon DRA-397 receiver) -- you’ll not only gain appreciation for the significant difference between 24-bit sound and 16-bit Red book CD sound, but you’ll likely head back to Chesky for more of the same.

We certainly did. Thanks for checking in.

-Jason

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I'm waiting for the Logitech Squeezebox Touch which will be $250 a month after release...]]>Nov 19th 2009 10:48AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/19/olive-4hd-makes-the-audiophiles-music-server-more-audiophilic/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/19/olive-4hd-makes-the-audiophiles-music-server-more-audiophilic/Nov 19th 2009 11:04AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/19/olive-4hd-makes-the-audiophiles-music-server-more-audiophilic/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/19/olive-4hd-makes-the-audiophiles-music-server-more-audiophilic/
I see how's there's only one copy of the story that lives where it best lives and is merely linked to on the other sites, but how does that affect RSS feeds? I subscribed to all three feeds, but haven't seen this story on the HD feed. Is that because it wasn't officially posted on the HD site, but linked to from the main site?]]>Nov 19th 2009 11:19AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/19/olive-4hd-makes-the-audiophiles-music-server-more-audiophilic/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/19/olive-4hd-makes-the-audiophiles-music-server-more-audiophilic/
Oh, right.]]>Nov 19th 2009 12:04PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/19/olive-4hd-makes-the-audiophiles-music-server-more-audiophilic/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/19/olive-4hd-makes-the-audiophiles-music-server-more-audiophilic/]]>Nov 19th 2009 12:42PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/19/olive-4hd-makes-the-audiophiles-music-server-more-audiophilic/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/19/olive-4hd-makes-the-audiophiles-music-server-more-audiophilic/Nov 19th 2009 12:50PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/19/olive-4hd-makes-the-audiophiles-music-server-more-audiophilic/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/19/olive-4hd-makes-the-audiophiles-music-server-more-audiophilic/Nov 19th 2009 2:58PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/19/olive-4hd-makes-the-audiophiles-music-server-more-audiophilic/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/19/olive-4hd-makes-the-audiophiles-music-server-more-audiophilic/
You say that you can get a richer, warmer sound for far less money from a turntable, but one doesn’t have to look far to find analog adherents who would argue that it takes a turntable-cartridge combination that costs far more than an Olive 4HD to give vinyl the treatment it deserves.

Ultimately, of course, what any music experience comes down to is how it sounds to the listener. If you’ve hit on your perfect setup for a few hundred dollars, you’re set. There’s no question, no matter how you feel about it, that your system will sound vastly different from an Olive. Which is better is entirely subjective, but we’re putting our money (and reputation) on the digital system. Our goal is to give the deepest digital experience to the broadest array of people possible, at a price point below most audiophile-grade components.

Thanks for taking the time to comment.

-Jason
]]>Nov 19th 2009 9:42PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/19/olive-4hd-makes-the-audiophiles-music-server-more-audiophilic/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/19/olive-4hd-makes-the-audiophiles-music-server-more-audiophilic/
You say that you can get a richer, warmer sound for far less money from a turntable, but one doesn’t have to look far to find analog adherents who would argue that it takes a turntable-cartridge combination that costs far more than an Olive 4HD to give vinyl the treatment it deserves.

Ultimately, of course, what any music experience comes down to is how it sounds to the listener. If you’ve hit on your perfect setup for a few hundred dollars, you’re set. Love it or hate it, there’s no question that your system will sound vastly different from an Olive. Which is better is entirely subjective, but we’re putting our money (and reputation) on the digital system. Our goal is to give the deepest digital experience to the broadest array of people possible at a price point below most audiophile-grade components.

Thanks for taking the time to comment.

-Jason

]]>Nov 19th 2009 9:49PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/19/olive-4hd-makes-the-audiophiles-music-server-more-audiophilic/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/19/olive-4hd-makes-the-audiophiles-music-server-more-audiophilic/Nov 19th 2009 3:16PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/19/olive-4hd-makes-the-audiophiles-music-server-more-audiophilic/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/19/olive-4hd-makes-the-audiophiles-music-server-more-audiophilic/Nov 19th 2009 5:09PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/19/olive-4hd-makes-the-audiophiles-music-server-more-audiophilic/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/19/olive-4hd-makes-the-audiophiles-music-server-more-audiophilic/Nov 20th 2009 5:57AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/19/olive-4hd-makes-the-audiophiles-music-server-more-audiophilic/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/19/olive-4hd-makes-the-audiophiles-music-server-more-audiophilic/The problem with most Media Players/Server is that they attempt to shoehorn all music into the Pop category which is cataloged by Artist/Album/Song and Genre. This absolutely does not work for accurately cataloging Classical music which has works and composers and movements and performers and a lot of other classical stuff I have no clue about. If I recall, Olive was the first hard drive based system to do classical right. The next server was Kaleidescape who had a classical music mode that was developed while I was still working there.

To many Classical music is meaningless but to the people who know and care about it (I am not one of them) traditional Media Servers and players drive them crazy with the poor indexing and cross referencing of their favorite classical pieces. Those classical enthusiasts would gladly pay $2k to have something that respects how classical music is indexed, especially if it offers the convenience and quality of a hard drive based digital system.

Hey Olive employee guy from above, what happened to the Olive Symphony, do the current products embrace Classical like that one did?]]>Dec 11th 2009 6:47PM