As we have observed before, digital storage and replay of music has reached the very highest quality level with 24bit/192kHz processing, low jitter and ultra-stable hard disc drives. It is now possible to replay recordings at Studio Master quality, and there are companies such as Linn Records and HD Tracks (the latter run by David Chesky) retailing albums - and in some cases individual tracks - as downloads sourced directly from the studio masters.
To get the full benefit of this new format, you need to reconstruct the music via a high quality DAC. That’s one of the things that the Olive 06HD does so well, but the other is storing, cataloguing and allowing you to quickly access your CD music collection.
If you want to be able to store a large library of CDs (anything up to 6,000 - in uncompressed form) , the 06HD has been specified to an exacting standard which ensures no loss of quality combined with control via a large touch-screen interface, or via iPhone, iTouch, or iPad using the free app.

The 06HD is hand built by the company’s factory in San Francisco, and every detail has been attended to in making it an audiophile product. Using fully balanced differential Burr-Brown DACs (24bit/192kHz) and reducing jitter to below 10 picoseconds is a good start. Then some ultra-fast, low slew-rate op amps come into play together with high order algorithms in the filter system. Distortion is vanishingly small (less than 0.0007%) and the signal to noise ratio of 124dB means the noise floor is way, way down deep, so the sound emerges from a totally quiet background.
They also added in a separate dedicated headphone circuit, fanless cooling, a 25cm glass touch screen and a casing construction standard second to none. At first blush the price of $6499 might seem high, but considering all that goes into this unit, it is quite reasonable – in fact cheaper than any comparable product.
Multi-room: like the 04HD, the 06HD can be the source for multi-room music using wifi to the client receiver Melody 2 units, which are available as optional add-ons.