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OLIVE 4 & 4HD

HI-FI M USIC SERV ER

P R O D U C T O V E R V I E W

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Digital Music Without Compromise

Olive makes the only high ﬁ delity digital products for the home stereo that deliver a music experience without compromises.

We’ve incorporated all the functionality you need into our Olive 4 Hi-Fi Server and eliminated the need for a PC. Now you

can store your music, manage your collection and even burn CDs. All that in high ﬁ delity and at a compelling value.

Simplify Storage

Put up to 6,000 CDs on your Olive 4 or have us do it for you. Pop in a CD and within minutes your music is imported in high ﬁ delity sound quality and automatically categorized.

Effortless Navigation

Your complete music collection will be at your ﬁ ngertips. Conveniently browse your music by genre, artist or album.

Multi-Room Music Access

Access your complete music collection and play different songs in every room of your home with Olive 2 Hi-Fi Players. Each Olive 4 supports up to 20 different players on a wired network or up to 10 different players on a wireless network.

Internet Radio

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Listen to thousands of pre-set internet radio stations from around the world and add your personal favorites.

High Fidelity Sound Quality

The Olive 4 combines a high-resolution DAC, optimized circuit design, CD quality digital sound, ultra-quiet hard drives and passive cooling to eliminate fan noise and deliver the best possible hi-ﬁ audio experience.

Style and Substance

The ﬁ ne-grade aluminum top, etched with distinctive graphics, makes for quite a conversation starter and keeps your Olive 4 cool without a noisy fan.

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HD Sound Will Rock Your Digital World

The Olive 4HD has the same features as the Olive 4 and adds premium quality sound and video

capabilities. First in music servers, the Olive 4HD now allows consumers to enjoy recording

4HD

Store up to 20,000 high-resolution HD tracks in 24-bit.

With more than 250 times the resolution of CDs, you’ll hear the HD difference immediately. Experience it right out of the box — the Olive 4HD includes over an hour of music with 12 of the best tracks from Chesky Records.

Use the HDMI interface to tune in from across the room.

Turn your TV into an oversized color display and use the Olive remote control to see music details or select songs from across the room. It’s a great alternative to navigating with the touchscreen or our iPhone App.

engineers’ golden standard 24-bit sound at home.

Connect your audio sources to your existing hi-ﬁ system.

The Olive 4HD will deliver exceptional sound quality from all of your digital music sources. Maximize your signal transfer with the 24k gold RCA connectors and use the Olive 4HD as an outboard DAC.

Hear your music like never before.

With our proprietary high-resolution DAC, featuring Texas Instruments’ best-of-breed Burr-Brown 1792A, your music can be reproduced in the same 24-bit, golden master quality captured in the original studio recording session.

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True Hi-Fi Sound Quality

Save the Sound is our motto at Olive and that’s exactly what we do when it comes to your music collection. Store up to 6,000

CDs on the Olive 4 or 20,000 HD tracks on the Olive 4HD in high ﬁ delity sound quality. How? The combination of Olive proprietary

technology and FLAC music ﬁ le format delivers a digital music experience without the compromises of MP3-style compression.

What is FLAC? FLAC vs. MP3 | AAC

FLAC stands for Free Lossless Audio Codec. FLAC is a lossless digital audio format which means that audio is compressed to reduce ﬁ le size without any loss in music quality. FLAC stands out as the most widely supported lossless audio codec.

Olive 4 Capacity Overview - Tracks

500GBQUALITYFORMAT 1000GB/1TB 2000GB/2TB

HD No Compression

WAV No Compression

FLAC No Compression

AAC Lossy Compression

MP3 Lossy Compression

4608 kbit/s

1411.2 kbit/s

800 kbit/s

128 kbit/s

20,000

8,120 16,380 32,760

1,4330 28,890 57,780

89,570

180,590

361,180

Although they are often described in the mainstream press as being of “CD quality,” MP3s and their lossy-compressed ilk do not offer sufﬁ cient audio quality for home stereo listening. The MP3 codec (for COder/DECoder) was developed at the end of the 1980s and adopted as a standard in 1991 to make digital music ﬁ les small enough for portable players. As typically used, it reduces the ﬁ le size by a factor of 10, so a song that takes up 30MB on a CD takes up only 3MB as an MP3 ﬁ le.

Advanced Audio Coding (AAC) is another standardized, lossy compression encoding scheme for digital audio. AAC is best known as the default audio format of Apple’s iPhone, iPod and iTunes.

If you want true CD sound quality, MP3 or AAC will not deliver. Even at the highest rate of 320 kbit/s both MP3 and AAC discard too many musical elements and are unable to match the original quality of CDs or digital ﬁ les in FLAC format.

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Maestro Music Management

Olive offers a browser-based software program, Maestro, so you can manage the music on your Olive 4 or 4HD from a PC or Mac.

Organize your music

Manage, edit, sort and play the music on your Olive 4 from your computer.

Create Playlists

Create playlists easily. Drag and drop tracks from any album in your music library.

Upload Album Artwork

Personalize your music collection by uploading your favorite versions of album artwork.

Create Sub-genres

Create a new sub-genre of music or move music to different genres.

Edit Meta-data

Edit information such as the composer or title of a classical music track.

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STORAGE ON DEVICE

REQUIRES EXTERNAL STORAGE

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The Olive 4 Delivers Compelling Value

Compare features, quality and price of the Olive 4 and 4HD with other popular music devices and be impressed.

Olive 4 & 4HD - More features. More value.

Company Olive McIntosh ReQuest B&O Escient Olive Logitech Sonos Yamaha Cisco

Product 4/4HD MS 750 F Series BeoSound 5 Fireball SE 2 Squeezebox Bundle 150

Product Description

Price. Starting at $1,499 $6,000 $5,000 $5,900 $999 $599 $299 $1,199 $1,199.95 $999

Hard Drive Capacity 2 TB 750 GB 1 TB 500 GB 80 GB 256 MB None None None None

CD Storage Capacity (Lossless) 5,800 2,155 2,900 1,000 N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A

Lossless Encoder Format 24 bit FLAC N/A N/A WMA N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A

Price/Value: Cost Per CD (Lossless) $0.26 $2.78 $1.72 $5.90 N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A

24bit Lossless Play and Stream √ N/A N/A N/A N/A √ N/A N/A N/A N/A

High Fidelity Audio reproduction √ N/A √ N/A N/A √ N/A N/A N/A N/A

Built-In CD Import - No PC required √ √ √ N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A

Built-In CD Player, CD-R √ √ √ N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A ??

CD to Digital Recording Service √ N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A Stream Music From a Computer √ √ √ √ √ √ √ √ √ √

Integrates with HDMI √ N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A

Music Metadata Management Software √ N/A N/A N/A N/A √ N/A N/A N/A N/A

HD Internet Radio √ N/A N/A N/A N/A √ N/A N/A N/A N/A

Wireless Multi-Room Capability √ N/A √ N/A √ √ √ √ √ √

Easy Self Install* √ N/A N/A N/A N/A √ N/A N/A N/A N/A

Hi-Fi Server Music Server Multi-Media Server Digital Music System

SAVE THE SOUND.

Digital Music

Manager

Hi-Fi Player Network Music Player

Multi-Room Music

System

Musicast2

Zone Pack

Network Music Player

* No PC/Mac or network installer required

Wireless Home

Audio

Multi-Room Audio

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FLAC

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