For those audio enthusiasts who are also looking for fashionable gear to match their lifestyle and their personal character, here's one new series of high-end audio equipment that will surely delight with its marvelous sound and exquisite characteristics as well as with its awesome presence. Easier to integrate in home decors full of vivacity and sparkling colors, the new Karim Opus No.5 boasts a coloring that breathes life and joy, while at the same time offering a noble grace to your multimedia rack.


The Opus No.5 from Olive is now even more attractive than the common series, but it retains the full performance that has rooted its acclaims throughout the audiophile world.

This media player can record and host around 2,200 CDs from your collection and then allowing to play back their content on a sound system of your choice. One of the neatest things about this media player is that it sports an embedded database containing info on more than 2,400,000 albums!

This is why the Opus No.5 needs no Internet connectivity to instantly tag and organize your CDs as you record them, making this rather boring operation a really fun one as pretty much of the boredom-causing jobs are carried out automatically.

This neat media player can connect to the Internet, though, in case you're looking for online radio stations, categorized by genre and quality ratings so you'll easily get to the content you want. In case you're on the go and don't want to leave home without your fav music, the Opus No.5 will be a great deal of help for copying entire playlists on your portable devices or for burning CDs with your preferred music.

On the tech side, the Opus No.5 sports dual 24-bit/192kHz DACs (the PCM1794A) form TI and reportedly it can run with a signal-to-noise ratio of 123dB, which is absolutely delightful in terms of what audiophile gear mean. The price for the Karim Rashid-designed Olive Opus No.5 runs around $4,000 a piece, but if you're looking for a neat media server with a personal, stylish touch, it may just be worth it.


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