amazon Olive ONE reviews
Music lovers always demand that the equipment be more perfect both in terms of comfort and quality. Understanding this need, Olive, the US-based maker of digital storage devices, launched Olive ONE.
It’s a complete solution offering, from storage – music access, digital music playback to a variety of formats, wireless music streaming and multi room setups to storage access and management. Digital music through the touch screen. In a nutshell, the pie-shaped device half the size of a birthday cake can do all the tasks of a digital music system.
The Olive ONE is designed in a minimalist style, like a circular cutting board with a diameter of 20cm with the top face slightly inclined towards the operator. Most of the surface area of the machine is a touch screen interface identical to a 7-inch tablet. All the machine control functions are done on a sharp touch screen, beautifully designed, friendly and modern. The Olive Logo is designed in the form of cursive writing with a characteristic green color, placed on the black glass surface that is delicate and light.
A flexible Music Server
First of all, Olive ONE is a music library with large storage capacity (1TB or 2TB option), which can store 6,000-12,000 CDs with the highest resolution available today such as WAV, FLAC, AIFF. . Olive ONE’s large hard drive will make users feel comfortable and fun when storing and managing music, collecting and digitizing discs easily without compromising quality. Moreover, finding and updating new content is also very simple, fast.
For other Music Server, the music to the machine often encountered some obstacles such as not found music files after copying, do not display album cover, do not edit the song name and singer after copying … But Olive ONE lets you do all that easily. Filling your music is done via USB, copied or downloaded over a LAN / Wi-fi connection. Most users will need very little time to learn about these features, as they are just commonplace tasks on a computer or tablet.
Amplifier class D high quality
It is possible to connect a pair of suitable speakers to the Olive ONE for live music playback without the need for a separate amplifier. The point worth mentioning is that the amplifier inside Olive ONE is class D, with a capacity of 32W / channel and is designed as two independent channels. This is a special component structure that is small enough to fit neatly in a printed circuit, while ensuring high-end signal quality. This amplifier delivers high performance up to 92%, using the DSP structure for each channel with Olive’s SMART technology, which improves gain and reproduces true-to-life sound.
Advanced DAC decoder
Although not a dedicated DAC, the Olive ONE is still equipped with a 32-bit / 384kHz decoder with Burr-Brown’s PCM 5142 chip. This high-end decoder supports audio formats such as WAV, AIFF, FLAC, MP3, AAC, Apple Lossless, OggVorbis etc. So, users can burn multiple audio formats to a hard drive for playback easy way.
Multi-room soundproof neat, convenient
Another interesting and convenient feature of Olive ONE is the ability to set up a wireless multi room room with Wireless Multi-Room Sound mode. This solution uses Olive ONE devices without a hard drive to access data from an Olive ONE containing music library. With a compact design, Olive ONE can be hung on the wall, or placed on the bookcase, kitchen cabinet … very orderly, sure. The way to share music using the interface UpnP is also very easy to implement.
Play music via Bluetooth
The Olive ONE is equipped with Bluetooth for direct connection to portable music players, smartphones or other portable digital devices. This feature will help users to enjoy music easier and more flexible. In the digital movement, almost everyone has their own music library on their smartphone, tablet or laptop, to share and perform an album right away, they do not have to download music to Olive ONE. Need to connect to it via Bluetooth and play music directly from your device to the general system.
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Control by application
Olive ONE can be controlled by application installed on smartphone, tablet (iOS, Android) or laptop. After downloading and installing the application separately from the manufacturer’s website, all Olive ONE management and control functions can be performed on mobile devices, which are very comfortable and convenient. At the same time, users can control all Olive ONE indoor devices, select room-by-scene music, volume control or turn on / off them.
Experience
We in turn experience all of the features described above. The first takes about 10 minutes to get familiar with the interface and effects. What we wanted to try first was to pair the Olive ONE with a pair of speakers, to see how it fits. The Klipsch RB 81 has a sensitivity of 97dB and 150W of power is coupled first. Although the bookshelf speaker but RB 81 has a rather “big” appearance, height 48, depth 31 and horizontal 24cm. All are “smooth” operation. The high middle range reappears very clearly although the bass strings are not strong and compact. This is a weakness of the small class D amplifier. However, overall, the sound was so good for an amateur like Olive ONE. Some of Tannoy’s other speakers can still be paired with Olive ONE. However, we found that direct pairing with the speakers was not Olive ONE’s strength. Its main task is still “music server” and other sharing functions.
In short, the Olive ONE is an extremely fun and efficient music player, suitable for digital music lovers, who love simple but modern and comfortable. Moreover, Olive ONE also offers wireless multi room audio solution with very neat and impressive sound quality. With the highest price option (2TB) below $1000, Olive ONE has the potential to take a market share of the popular digital music player.