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At CES, Olive and THIEL announced that they have teamed up on a new networked HD music system, the Olive+THIEL HD Music System. The multi-room system combines the Olive 4HD music server with THIEL's SCS4 IP-based loudspeakers for high-resolution audio anywhere in your home network.

The Olive+THIEL system streams music over Ethernet in HD quality directly into THIEL's IP-based SCS4D speakers. The system features a built-in touch-screen LCD to easily find and play music, and a free iPhone app is available to allow an iPhone or iPod touch to act as a remote. Music can be copied to the hard drive via the built-in CDRW drive (which can also burn playlists for the car), or from a networked computer. The system can also connect to your TV via HDMI. Did I mention that this system can store a whopping 6,000 CDs or 20,000 24-bit HD music tracks in lossless quality?Read more

Olive Media today announced the new 4HD Hi-Fi Music Server for home stereo systems. The 4HD not only plays your music, but can rip and store your media onto its two terabyte hard drive. Music can also be copied to the Olive 4HD via your computer through its wireless or wired network connection. The music reproduction is handled through Olive's DAC, and is said to match the 24-bit sound and 192 kHz sample rate used in recording studios.

To use, connect the Olive 4HD directly to a stereo receiver. Music libraries are then navigated through the touchscreen or on a TV via HDMI. A free iPhone/iPod touch app is also available so you can control the 4HD from your iPhone.

The 4HD Hi-Fi Music Server is available from Olive for $1,999. It includes 12 of Chesky Records' best HD tracks for free.

Owners of the Olive Opus Hi-Fi Digital Stereo now have a new way to control their stereo. The company just introduced the free iMaestro application for the iPhone and iPod Touch, giving iPhone users the ability to control the Opus Hi-Fi Digital Stereo from anywhere in the home.

iMaestro application features:

• Control the Olive Opus from anywhere in the home with access to their complete music collection.
• Control the Olive Melody multi-room players for easy wireless access to play music throughout the home.
• Find music in their collection easily with the full-color touchscreen. Select by artist, album, track or genre or tap a few letters to do a quick search.
• See album artwork and detailed information, including artist, album, release date, record label, instruments, soloists and more about the music currently playing on the Opus.
• Control music currently playing by adjusting the volume, repeating or shuffling tracks or rating a track to personalize their music collection.
• Create playlists to set the mood for any occasion. Songs can even be added to playlists while listening.
• Choose from thousands of free, pre-set internet radio stations or add personal favorites.

The Olive Opus No. 4 is the latest offering in Olive's Opus Hi-Fi Digital Stereo line. This high-end music server has 2TB of internal storage, giving you room for around 6,000 CDs worth of lossless digital quality music.

Targeted at the home entertainment enthusiast, the Opus lets you easily digitize and consolidate music in high fidelity through the built-in CD drive - music is automatically imported and categorized. Simply insert your CD, push the record button, and a few minutes later the CD is in your music library, tagged and categorized. Have music on your computer? Transfer it with a simple drag-and-drop to your Opus.Read more