Enter to Win: Olive Media O3HD Media Server valued at $999!

[Tom Andry]

Olive Media wants you to win!

Olive Media is giving away the chance to one (1) Olive O3HD music server to one (1) eligible forum member! Setting up the Olive O3HD Music Server is as simple as connecting a standard CD player. Once installed, anything you want to do is easy: Find your favorite song. Search by artist, genre or album, or leaf through the album artwork. The Olive O3HD Music Server has a built-in, ultra-quiet hard drive with a storage capacity of 500GB. This means that the Olive O3HD can store your entire CD collection in a box the size of a standard CD Player. Storing HD music is one thing. Reproducing it in all its unique detail is another. The O3HD is a direct result of Olive's long-standing and highly respected audio engineering experience. That means you always get state-of-the-art audio components, including a premium DAC with full 24-bit/192 kHz capability. This contest represents a $999 value!



Features:

• High-resolution Cirrus Logic DAC (192khz/24-bit)
• Ultra-quiet 500GB AV hard drive (Holds almost 5,000 HD tracks or 1,500 CDs in original quality)
• 1x Wired Gigabit Ethernet
• High-resolution (480 x 272 pixels) 4.3" wide-aspect ratio touch-screen
• Passive cooling without noisy fan

For more information, please visit the Olive site

To be eligible to win, you must: 1) Be a registered Audioholics forum member, 2) Have USA or Canadian Residence and 3) Answer the following questions in the thread below.

Contest Questions:
1) Are you currently looking for or using a music server?

a) if you are currently using, which do you use and why
b) if you are not, would you like one, why or why not.

2) When purchasing a music server, which are the three most important considerations to you and why?

3) Are their any deal breaker features in music servers (meaning you wouldn't buy one with that feature)? What are they?

Note this contest ends on January 7th, 2010. Winners will be drawn shortly thereafter.

Have fun and good luck!

[emorphien]

1) Not currrently looking for or using one. I wouldn't mind one if it combined the quality and features as well as ease of use I'd want.

2) Audio quality (ripped track format, etc), wireless ethernet, ease of content access/management.

3) No wifi support would be a pretty big dealbreaker, so if I was shopping it would rule this product out if it only has wired ethernet.

[sawzalot]

Contest Questions:
1) Are you currently looking for or using a music server?
Answer. Yes I have been looking and really standing on the outside looking in as this is very much new territory for me.

a) if you are currently using, which do you use and why
Answer. Not using one.
b) if you are not, would you like one, why or why not.
Answer. I would like one simply for the introduction into this type of server, it seems like a more simple approach to creating a library of artists right at your fingertips , I am ready to add it to the HT.

2) When purchasing a music server, which are the three most important considerations to you and why?
Answer. I would go for the accurate sound quality this would produce, ease of use and operation as in user friendly, storage capabilities as in if I were to introduce this to my set up I surely want to get the most out of it as possible, I think looks are just as important as well.

3) Are their any deal breaker features in music servers (meaning you wouldn't buy one with that feature)?
Answer 1st part, I am not too familiar so i cant answer honestly. What are they?
Answer. I would hope that the music loads from start to finish in like a warp speed fashion and be fairly easy to use.

[its phillip]

1) Are you currently looking for or using a music server?
B. I wouldn't mind one - I could take all the music off of my slow nas and put it on the media server instead.

2) When purchasing a music server, which are the three most important considerations to you and why?
flac support, expandability (as in hard drives), and the ability to stream to multiple sources.

3) Are their any deal breaker features in music servers (meaning you wouldn't buy one with that feature)? What are they?
Not quite sure how to answer this one either - nobody is forcing you to use a specific feature on a device. If one of the devices features was being a "slim, all-in-one unit" for aesthetic purposes but lacking any user upgradability, I wouldn't have any desire to purchase it at all. For example, 500GB in this unit is far too small - as long as I can upgrade it, that's a nonissue.

[davidtwotrees]

1) Are you currently looking for or using a music server?

a) if you are currently using, which do you use and why
b) if you are not, would you like one, why or why not.
1.) I am always on the hunt for new gear. I think the Olive's are sleek, sharp machines. I would love to own one.
a.)I own an Escient Fireball SE 80, that is probably 5 years old. At the time I purchased it new, I had hoped to own an Olive or an Audio Refinement but they were out of my price range at the time and the Escient was all that I could afford. It has served me well but is now long in the tooth, loading slower and slower as it fills up, and has a couple of hiccups in the software.
b.) I would love to replace the Escient. It only does 320 Kbps.

2) When purchasing a music server, which are the three most important considerations to you and why?
Storage capacity and bit rates, cost, aesthetics, ease of use, firmware updates, customer support.
I know, more than three, but I have thought about servers for awhile and love mine to death. I would never go back to cds. Never. Search my posts and find that I am always jumping in the music server threads and telling the computer geeks that not everyone wants to build a server, and that the store bought ones are worth it to joe six packs like myself. My Fireball only does MP3s at 320. I would love to have my cd collection at full strength. Escient has been a little lame in support of the few small hiccups I have had. I have drooled over the Olive's for some time but they were out of my price range for the bigger ones. This one looks to be perfect. Having the screen on the unit is so nice as now I have turn on my flat screen to use my server. I have also heard good things about Olive's cs.

3) Are their any deal breaker features in music servers (meaning you wouldn't buy one with that feature)? What are they?
I would not buy a server without a built in display. I would not buy a server that was MP3 only. This unit is perfect at it's price point. Good job Olive! David

[dkane360]

1) Are you currently looking for or using a music server?
I am not using a music server, but I plan on purchasing a Dune media player which I might use as a music server.

2) When purchasing a music server, which are the three most important considerations to you and why?
What files it can play, ease of use, how it can output

3) Are their any deal breaker features in music servers (meaning you wouldn't buy one with that feature)? What are they?
Nothing besides cost. If the price is unreasonable for the what you buy, it'll be a no-go. The hard drive should also be user replaceable or expandable via USB port.

[jhanley]

1) Are you currently looking for or using a music server?
Yes.
a) if you are currently using, which do you use and why
Squeezebox-3, Best price wise for streaming at the time.
b) if you are not, would you like one, why or why not.
2) When purchasing a music server, which are the three most important considerations to you and why?
1) Expandable internal capacity (for growing collection).
2) Native flac support (lossless format I use)
3) Quality DACS. My AVR does too much processing even in pure direct. I connect to EXT-IN ports.

3) Are their any deal breaker features in music servers (meaning you wouldn't buy one with that feature)? What are they?
Yes...MUST NOT require an external PC based server, like the squeezebox.

[jamie2112]

Contest Questions:
1) Are you currently looking for or using a music server?
Yes I am
a) if you are currently using, which do you use and why
b) if you are not, would you like one, why or why not.
I want one for ease of music playing
2) When purchasing a music server, which are the three most important considerations to you and why?
Price , DAC, quality of audio
3) Are their any deal breaker features in music servers (meaning you wouldn't buy one with that feature)? What are they?
Not really I am still learning

[Nemo128]

Contest Questions:

1) Are you currently looking for or using a music server? Yes
a) if you are currently using, which do you use and why
b) if you are not, would you like one, why or why not. To pump my tunes through the HT better with a good GUI

2) When purchasing a music server, which are the three most important considerations to you and why? SQ for obvious reasons, storage capacity because I have and like A LOT of music, and GUI quality for WAF

3) Are their any deal breaker features in music servers (meaning you wouldn't buy one with that feature)? What are they? I will not live without a wired network connection or the ability to use a keyboard if desired. Also the GUI must support bookmarking or some kind of indexing for faster searching.

[gholt]

Contest Questions:
1) Are you currently looking for or using a music server?
Not currenlty looking, but if something came up that would work well, I would consider.

a) if you are currently using, which do you use and why

b) if you are not, would you like one, why or why not.I would like one, if it would play nice and I would be able to send the music to my AVR and hear it over the whole house audio and be able to control it remotely.

2) When purchasing a music server, which are the three most important considerations to you and why?
abilty to control remotely.
ability to link to my AVR.

3) Are their any deal breaker features in music servers (meaning you wouldn't buy one with that feature)? What are they?
None that I know of.