小葉獨家---音樂不中斷，OLIVE 4HD + Olive 2 開箱入手 (O6HD、O4HD、O3HD)

[Rendy]

之前還沒改內網架構時,
一片CD約2分鐘...(100 Mbps)
架構改為10倍快網路,實際約快2.x倍..
也有可能是Olive端PLC規格比較慢?,轉檔跟處理的速度問題

[Leo Yeh]

4HD Five Star

http://whathifi.com/Review/Olive-4HD/

Olive 4HD

£ 2150 5 * * * * *


This is 21st-century hi-fi: the Olive 4HD is superb to live with and listen to

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  Exceptional sound; approachable and easy to use; quality build and finish; sheer value
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  It doesn't stream from iTunes - but that's not what it's really for anyway

Is the CD player an endangered species? Not yet, perhaps, but it seems its hegemony is slipping: high-quality iPod docks and DACs are becoming increasingly popular, while Squeezebox and Sonos are happily carving up the music-system middle-ground, leaving the high-end to Linn, Meridian, Naim and, as of today, Olive.
Yes, Olive. You won't have heard of the company before, but rest assured this could well be one of hi-fi's most talked-about brands in 2010.
It's California-based, founded and run by a German, and its hugely capable 4HD hard-disk music server can deliver hi-fi sound so reassuringly, familiarly British that even ardent CD aficionados will surely find it difficult to dislike.
With 2TB of storage, it's also capacious enough to satisfy the keenest digital music collector: even at best (uncompressed) quality, the Olive can accommodate up to 3000 albums, which ought to be enough for most.
Use FLAC, which sounds perfectly acceptable to most ears, and that capacity grows to an improbable 6000 discs.
Loading it with your music will take time, of course, although some dealers may offer disc-loading services (where your CD collection is ripped to the 4HD for you).

Great to use and live with
Ease of use is another major facet of Olive's mantra. The 4HD is about the same size as a regular CD player, looks a little like one as well, and, thanks to conventional control keys on its fascia, can even be used like a CD player, too.
But we think most will prefer to use its beautiful 4.3in, 480 x 272 resolution colour touchscreen, with its clear, intuitive and thoroughly attractive menus. It's fast, effective and readily visible from across a room.
And a free iPhone/iPod Touch app is available too – which is just as well, as the supplied remote control is more functional than desirable.
Internally, the Olive sports 24-bit/192kHz PCM 1792A digital-to-analogue conversion from Burr-Brown – usefully, this can be used as an offboard DAC for other digital sources too, thanks to the 4HD's inclusion of a digital input.
Alternatively, there are both coaxial and optical digital outputs, so if you'd rather connect your Olive into an offboard DAC or digital-ready amplifier, you're covered. And there's even an HDMI connector, so you can display the 4HD's album art on your TV.

Olive's silence is golden
Careful attention to detail means the Olive goes about its business in silence: the hard-drives are housed on eight layers of noise-isolating material, while the fanless configuration means your listening won't be unduly interrupted.
Connected via analogue interconnects into our reference system, the 4HD's sound is excellent.
Out of the box, the 4HD comes pre-loaded with a 12-track 24-bit Chesky audio sampler designed to illustrate its sonic potential. These are stunningly transparent and precisely imaged – a genuine leap up in quality over 16-bit CDs.
WAV and FLAC rips from 'regular' CDs are deeply impressive too, with Hans Zimmer's muscular Dark Knight soundtrack offering plenty of sonic drama.
And comparing the CD quality with that of Marantz's excellent CD6003 was interesting, too: there wasn't much in it, with the 4HD proving, at the least, an attentively rhythmic and expressive listen.
Of course, as any music server ought to be, the Olive's wi-fi-enabled (and also sports an ethernet connection if you prefer a wired link).
That means it can retrieve album art for your ripped CDs, gives it the ability to access internet radio and – most exciting of all – means it can stream music to up to 10 other Olive components.
The company makes its own 'client' players, called Olive 2: these offer a similar user interface to the 4HD, but omit the hard-disk and CD drive, and cost £650 each.
And now for the kicker. There are cheaper 500GB and 1TB versions of the Olive available, but even the most costly 2TB capacity model tested here will set you back less than half the cost of the £4500 Naim HDX, and a third of the £6285 tag for the Meridian Sooloos – yet in many ways it's a solid rival to both.
So, odd as it sounds for a unit of this price, this is a genuine bargain. Now do you see what we mean about Olive?

[kevintran]

（以上恕刪）
實際上只有10%的傳輸速率吧....
在想卡在哪邊....
傳輸時PC只有開IE跟Firefox..

對不起，不是要澆您冷水。PC上跑的東西遠多於您“看的到”的東西。另外，Musk大說得對，大部分的hard disk的實際傳輸速度比規格低了不少。另外，PC本身的軟，硬體架構（interface card 的 bus，memory bus，etc)也會對實際速度有影響。
以我個人淺薄的經驗，您家網路的傳輸速度算很不錯了啦！

[Musk]

我PC端的硬碟都是WD企業級RE3
Olive 4HD的是WD的WD Caviar Green

RE3的規格
性能規格:轉速7,200 RPM（額定）
緩衝區大小:32 MB
平均潛伏時間:4.20毫秒 (額定的)
傳輸率:主機緩存速度 (序列 ATA)3 Gb/s（最高傳輸速度）
物理規格:格式化容量1,000,204 MB
容量:1 TB
介面: SATA 3 Gb/秒


WD Caviar Green
同上規格..

硬碟端的最高傳輸率都是3 Gb/s..
網路架構是 1 Gb/s

實際上只有10%的傳輸速率吧....
在想卡在哪邊....
傳輸時PC只有開IE跟Firefox..

平均潛伏時間:4.20毫秒 還要再加上seek time還啥的忘了

主機緩存速度 (序列 ATA)3 Gb/s（最高傳輸速度）指的是SATA介面,而非硬碟本體的實際有效傳輸

緩衝區大小:32 MB 得進裝置管理員看是否有啟用buffer(為了資料安全性,多數情況下是被作業系統強制關閉的)

[ericguu006]

一個找CD封面的好網站. 還蠻好用的.

Free CD Cover Album Artwork
http://www.coverhunt.com/

[kevintran]

想知道您的PC上有多少不知道在做什麼的processes嗎？試試看這個

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/s.../bb963902.aspx

保證您會被嚇到！

請注意，如果有您不認識的軟體，先不急著delete它們。有些可能是有用的。

[Musk]

想知道您的PC上有多少不知道在做什麼的processes嗎？試試看這個

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/s.../bb963902.aspx

保證您會被嚇到！

請注意，如果有您不認識的軟體，先不急著delete它們。有些可能是有用的。

開啟工作管理員便一目瞭然~

[kevintran]

啊！多謝指教。顯然我玩PC玩的不夠。

[Rendy]

目前Rip CD 191片,
發現在歌曲分類那邊有點亂,有些被分到Unknown區...
要改變分類,就直接到右半邊,把專輯名稱直接拖曳到左半邊正確的分類內..
就會變更了..

先停下Rip工作..來整理一下...XD

[Leo Yeh]

今天試接了HDMI到電視，要記得到4HD的設定裡切換輸出