Olive has announced the latest version of its latest high-end digital music separate, this time called the Opus and equipped with a 400GB hard drive - enough, the company claims, to hold 660 uncompressed CDs, 1,100 ripped using lossless compression, or 7,230 ripped to 128KBps MP3 files. Olive said the Opus will ship early this month for $2999. It's available in black or silver.

Like Musica/Symphony/Hifidelio, Opus has a CD drive ready to play or rip your music collection - and burn custom CDs. There are USB ports to hook up an iPod and copy songs across to the portable player. The unit has 802.11g Wi-Fi and a four-port 10/100Mbps Ethernet switch on board, ready to stream music to and from remote systems such as Macs, PCs and Hermstedt's ST-64 remote controller and speaker combo.

Track details are displayed on the range's usual seven-line, 400 x 160, four-greyscale LCD. Ripped songs are immediately compared to the built-in 2m-track song-title database to populate ID tags.