 Olive OPUS - Too cool....
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Only lists for three grand too. But finally a loss-less system that'll hold all my CD's plus some room for growth.
I'm pretty interested in this thing.
http://www.olive.us/p_bin/?cid=01_07_opus
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Look at last post for Ripping CDs to your computer -- the audiophile way 
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im thinking,'only' 3 Grand is a lot of money for this product, feature-wise, or sound quality-wise.....
Cheers!
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Anyone who has any experience with hard disk know they have a rather short life span. When it goes ... poof, music you painfully put on over a long period of time is suddenly gone and unrecoverable.
Now if they put the hard disk in tandom so you had a back up that would be a different story.
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Not trying to start an argument and perhaps you have had some bad experience with some hard drives. But just what do you consider a short life span ?
We have had 6 machines online 24/7 for over 9 years now and in that time only had one hard drive failure, and that was on a fiber optic unit. I believe that any one that as any amount of critical data on a drive and has taken no precaution for a failure rather deserves what happens. 
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If a product that costs $3000 doesn't provide any HD redundancy or other means of backing up the data, they shouldn't even be selling it.
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Did not spend a lot of time researching it, but from the specs, one could build a similar system for a lot less bucks.  But if one has an unlimited budget it would be a coo looking box in the cabinet I guess.
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It was just anounced a day or two ago. This is their "audiophile" player and they have several others to choose from.
It "lists" for three grand. I suspect within six months, a person could pick one up for half that. At $1500, it then becomes too attactive to not buy.
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You could probably build an HTPC for $1000 flat.
400 GB Hard drives can be had for only $200
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Didn't you just order a MacBook Pro?
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