Antipodes Audio unveils super premium Oladra music servers

Antipodes Audio has expanded its flagship Oladra platform into a standalone ultra-premium server marque, introducing two new digital audio source models aimed at the luxury audio end of the residential AV market.

The new Oladra Sentia and Oladra Presence will make their public debut at AXPONA 2026.

Hailing from New Zealand’s Kapiti Coast, Antipodes Audio has spent more than a decade building a reputation around dedicated music servers that reject conventional PC-derived hardware approaches. With Oladra now separated from the company’s core Kala line, the business is effectively creating an independent halo brand for projects where digital source performance is treated as a no-compromise system element.

The Kala range will continue in parallel, while Oladra develops as a distinct ultra-high-end platform with its own software environment and dedicated website.

That distinction matters in super-premium two-channel and media-room environments, where the digital source is increasingly scrutinised with the same intensity once reserved for amplification and loudspeakers.

Both the Sentia and Presence are built on the same Oladra platform and ship with 4TB SSD storage as standard, integrated online streaming support and digital reclocking onboard. It’s positioned as a source component that can sit at the front end of any reference-grade audio system.

Rather than adapting general-purpose computing boards, the company has designed what it describes as a purpose-built ‘audio computer’, with hardware, firmware and software unified as a single architecture. The focus is on managing timing accuracy, electrical noise and system behaviour at source, rather than relying on downstream DACs or reclocking stages to correct problems already embedded into the signal.

Beneath the hood, both models deploy a suite of proprietary technologies including cascaded switch-mode power supplies, multiple customised processing engines and chip-level firmware tuning. Control comes via the Oladra Play software platform.

The differentiation between the two new models is said to lie in refinement rather than functionality. Antipodes says the Presence applies further physical and technical optimisation to deliver what it describes as the ultimate expression of the Oladra architecture.

Shipping begins later this month, through Absolute Sounds, with the Sentia priced at £33,888, and the Presence £57,888.