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    Introducing Olympus & Olympus I/O - A new perspective on modern music playback

    Thanks, Emile, for your further clarification. Please set up an individualized configuration system to deal with buyers' preference for the specific digital output that comes with Olympus prior to shipping. In my case, (1) I do not want to have the SPDIF/AES-EBU daughter card and want to have...
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    Introducing Olympus & Olympus I/O - A new perspective on modern music playback

    Thanks, Tsaett and Swiss Tom for your clarification. Need a further clarification: the stock Olympus comes with SPDIF-AES/EBU unless I opt to have the proprietary Horizon daughter card (which is to be provided by Taiko, not Lampizator) in lieu of the stock digital output (at no additional...
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    Introducing Olympus & Olympus I/O - A new perspective on modern music playback

    @Taiko Audio Emile, could you please confirm the following (or correct if mistaken): my contemplated connection is between Olympus interface and Horizon via proprietary XDMI connection in lieu of SPDIF/AES-EBU. Under this scenario, will the analog output (your own DAC output) and Horizon XDMI...
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    LampizatOr Horizon - Tube Rolling Paradise

    It all depends on whom you believe, as each side has its "experts" to vouch for its view. There is and can be no settled view. I chose to follow the belief that SE is superior to balanced (also the belief that WAV is superior to DSD) for SQ purposes for home audio systems. My own experience...
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    LampizatOr Horizon - Tube Rolling Paradise

    Steve, are you referring to P17C rather than f17c? P17C were made in France under the label SFR; SRS551 under the label WF were made in East Germany and are much rarer to find. My experience with SRS 551 was the opposite of yours - not that they were dynamic (or "too much" as you put it above...
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    Record Label Honesty In the Download Era

    I came across a few of "Alexander Bak" remastering releases (24.96) (e.g., Wagner's Lohengrin (Solti/VPO) and Kemper/VPO's Wagner's Preludes) - they are uniformly awful, worse than original CD releases. Think they are fraudulent.
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    Introducing Olympus & Olympus I/O - A new perspective on modern music playback

    Ed, that was what I thought. 300% over 100% baseline (2x better in my reading, meant for me only a HUGE SQ jump (with which 99% of end users would agree) in comparison to the SQ uptick from Switch (as an example). I play files locally exclusively (no streaming). If Emile said the Switch used...
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    Introducing Olympus & Olympus I/O - A new perspective on modern music playback

    You should have used a disclaimer in BOLD FACE and UPPER CASE for your postings like this - to avoid another round of percentage number and other hifi talks and primer lessoning from "scientifically minded" people and "gurus". 300% must be guaranteed and verifiable or accepted as a matter of...
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    Introducing Olympus & Olympus I/O - A new perspective on modern music playback

    Did you see the words " Tongue in cheek" in the quoted comment from me? You were the second who failed to see my disclaimer with this emoji :p. Sorry for not capitalizing and boldfacing the phrase: "TONGUE IN CHEEK". Case closed.
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    Introducing Olympus & Olympus I/O - A new perspective on modern music playback

    No disagreement here except I don't hold a view attributed to me or the use of "final word" or "last word" - c'mon, is there the final word unless it is the Word or "logos" from the Gospel, John 1? Even so it is only for a certain sect of believers in the view of others; there are agnostics or...
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    Introducing Olympus & Olympus I/O - A new perspective on modern music playback

    Were we saying the same thing? Last word belongs to you, Steve, as the elder stateman, site owner and mega sized influencer.
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    Introducing Olympus & Olympus I/O - A new perspective on modern music playback

    Indeed, same for 2x+ soundstage. My room is 17x 16 x 9'. I already have wall-to-wall soundstage from the Extreme-Horizon combo. 2x soundstage would tear down the boundary of my room and fill up the whole house? I need to work 10x hard to get a much bigger room/house for the 10x explosion of...
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    Introducing Olympus & Olympus I/O - A new perspective on modern music playback

    Steve, in the end it is all TALK - including talk from manufacturers. End user talk, manufacture talk, dealer talk, promoter talk and so on. Your talk won't end talk. This forum is for talk (controlled as it is). There are differences there - some talk has hidden (not obvious) motives and...
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    Introducing Olympus & Olympus I/O - A new perspective on modern music playback

    Steve, we all need to realize that your talk as well as mine is just your talk (and mine) - personal, subjective. Same goes for your or early adopters' feedback and "percentages". Same goes for your wagon and appetite. They are all equally useful and useless, meaningful and meaningless. Only...
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    Introducing Olympus & Olympus I/O - A new perspective on modern music playback

    Even the meaning or interpretation of "diminished returns" is subjective. I don't view it as in the pejorative sense you had in mind. Moving from O to I/O may be a diminished return (understood in a neutral sense) as I recall Emile's description of I/O: "When you add the I/O to the Olympus you...
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