Antipodes OLADRA Music Server and Streamer Reviews

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“The Oladra is hefty and attractive piece of kit. The sweeping side curves of the chassis are very easy on the eye, if somewhat lost when sitting, listening and facing the kit head on. The Oladra interface took a short time to get used to and a few runs through, of the educational videos on the Antipodes website, were needed before I approached the set up with a degree of confidence. With minor peserverence, it all makes sense. When I first got the Oladra operational, I thought it sounded slightly weaker than my very long standing Mark Levinson CD setup. That barely lasted 10 hours, the Oladra soon caught up and passed the CD. At 50 hours it had sailed far past and into another league. The old cliche about 'hearing deeper into the music' is neverless the most appropriate I can think of. The lack of digital glare is startling. I recently toed my speakers in a little more, something that would have been unbearably bright with CD playback. The ability to focus in and follow any instrument is a joy. Background vocals are no longer an amourphous mass, individual voices are clear. The Oladra doesn't transform poorly recorded material (why is so much great music behind terrible recordings?) but it does present them sympathetically. I found myself able to listen to albums I'd long since given up on. With good material, the Oladra is breathtakingly good, quite analogue without all the surface noise and other detrius that hangs on vinyls coat tails. I'm now somewhere around the 250 hours mark and still hearing minor improvements to the already startling sound quality. Is the Oladra perfect? Well I would sacrifice some of its very handsome looks for a little more convenience. I have limited room and getting to the back of the Oladra for disk insertion and CD ripping is awkward. I find the power button clunky and have got myself confused a couple of times as to exactly what state the Oladra is in. These are pretty minor nit picks compared to the many hours of top class streaming pleasure I have had. If streaming is to be your primary source of music then you owe it to yourself to audition this amazing piece of kit. Ken Mitchell”

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