Creating the HD category for digitally recorded music, the Olive 4HD matches recording engineers’ golden standard of 24-bit sound and 192 kHz sample rate, offering listeners music at more than 250 times the resolution of CDs.

“Most digital music solutions severely compromise the quality of the music experience,” says Olive CEO Oliver Bergmann.

“Our new HD music server delivers a new listening experience that allows music lovers to enjoy the best of both worlds – the convenience of digital music management and the quality of HD sound. This is the way music sounds as it is recorded.”

Easy to set up, configure and navigate, the new Olive 4HD serves as a control centre that can access any digitised music library. A two terabyte hard drive stores up to 6,000 CDs, or 20,000 high resolution 24-bit tracks. Music can easily be copied to the Olive 4HD via the built-in CD mechanism, or from a PC or Mac through its wireless or wired network connection.

As part of your home entertainment system, the Olive 4HD connects directly to a stereo receiver. Music libraries are easy to navigate through the integrated touch-screen, or, using the units’ built-in HDMI interface, on a TV.

Olive also offers a free iPhone/iPod Touch application that allows users to control the Olive hi-fi server from anywhere within the home network. Beyond standard music information such as artist, album, track title and cover art, the Olive delivers extended metadata, describing music more accurately and tailored to its specific genre. This allows users to find the right music, quickly.