Red Wine Audio is very proud to be the first company to offer modifications for the Olive Music servers...making them the first (and very best) "off-the-grid" SLA battery powered audiophile music servers available today! No other high-end home audio playback source offers the level of versatility as the Olive Symphony and Musica music servers. They operate independently from an external computer and provide a whole new level of simplicity, convenience, German design and build-quality, value, and most importantly...enjoyment!

"The RWA Signature 30 and modded Olive Symphony are gathering tons of very positive press and for very good reason. They embarrass just about everything else I’ve heard near their price range and are way more fun and musical than just about anything else I’ve toyed with. Both are highly recommended."
Sandy Greene, Sonic Flare

"The Red Wine modifications gave the music much of which had been missing, namely presence, texture, energy and a pleasant tonal balance."

"As impressed as I was with the stock Musica, the Red Wine Audio modifications took the unit to an entirely new level. This was largely due to an uncanny - - and almost spooky - - low noise floor, which I attribute to the battery power supply."

"Were I in the market for a CD player in that price range, I would most certainly opt for the modded Musica instead. As a digital hard drive-based transport, it bettered anything I have heard in my system, including CD drives with retail prices in excess of $6,000."
Laurence A Borden, Dagago

With a user-friendly Olive music server, you have the power to:

• Rip and tag your music collection to the built-in hard drive with literally the press of a button

• Use the built-in CD drive as a very precise transport to feed your external dac (via coax or optical digital outputs) or feed directly into a power amp via a remote volume controlled RCA line output

• Burn a CD from the internal CD-RW drive

• Archive music from an external analog source (e.g. Vinyl) to the internal hard drive

• Control the Olive Music Server via a network computer or wireless PDA (e.g. Nokia 770)

• Wirelessly stream Internet radio stations (or music from another computer in your home)

• Transfer music to/from an iPod, as well as playback files stored on an iPod

• Connect an external USB hard drive to playback and backup your music collection

• Plug your headphones into the built-in 1/4" headphone jack mounted on the front panel (with built in volume control)

Unlike many competing (and much more costly and complex) music servers, both the Olive Symphony and Musica
units showcase an extremely clean, well-designed circuit board layout that uses all surface mount parts and very
short signal paths. These are not merely repackaged computers with fancy sound cards, noisy fans and
grunge-inducing switch-mode power supplies. Instead they use their own easy-to-use software interface and energy efficient components (some of which are found in laptops) that run cool and do not require a fan. This results in whisper quiet operation that is welcome in any high-end audio environment, and permits the practical and complete transformation to SLA battery power. This is where it gets exciting!

With the Red Wine Audio modifications to these Olive music servers, the audio quality is significantly improved while retaining all the user friendly options listed above. We have been developing this comprehensive mod package since late last year. The RWA modded Olive is transformed into a topnotch battery powered transport (using the digital output to an external dac), a rich and musical sounding CD and hard drive player (using the analog output from the built-in dac), and a superior sounding CD burner, ripper, and analog archiving machine. By using high-current SLA battery power, we achieve the highest level of refinement and signal resolution (both via the analog and digital outputs) heightened by an astonishingly black background. This eliminates the need for power conditioning equipment, power cords, outlets and connectors. AC line noise does not get the chance to enter or leave because it is no longer used...period.