Introduction

Of all the gear that I reviewed last year, my favorite component by far was the Squeezebox Touch. Having instant access to all of my music, and high resolution downloads, was just a fantastic thing that led me to listen to far more, and varied, music that before. However, the one thing I always said about the Touch is that while I loved it, I wasn’t going to buy one for my Dad since I’d have to install a PC server component, or hook up an external hard drive that I’d have to keep ripping his music to for him. For him, a simple, all-in-one solution would be what I would want.

Thankfully, Olive has just the component to do that. While they have been making music servers for many years now, their 03HD is their first full-featured server to come in under $1,000 with support for 24/192 high-resolution media. Would this be a solution that is much easier to use?