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

    Thanks. No, I didn't read all 52 pages of posts in this thread. For 49 pages of those 52 pages that question remained unanswered.
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    Introducing Olympus & Olympus I/O - A new perspective on modern music playback

    @Taiko Audio The Extreme server was based on dual Xeon 10 core CPUs and 48GB of ECC ram, what are the specs of the new server as far as CPU, motherboard, and ram specs?
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    My Personal Experience With Detailed Speaker Setup - I'm Finally There

    Thank you gents for the kind words. The tweeters are ~7.65ft to my ears, the tweeters are 8.5ft apart. I will clean up the work area and share some photos and maybe a video this week.
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    My Personal Experience With Detailed Speaker Setup - I'm Finally There

    *******This is a long post, if not interested in reading it all, feel free to skim the TL;DR of my experience. This is an account of my personal experience only******** On the detailed speaker setup thread, there were lots of lively discussions on the merits of ultra precise speaker...
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    Smearing

    Smearing is when individual elements of the sound run into each other, either in the frequency domain or in the time domain, thus obscuring natural details inside the music or intrude upon silence between notes. What makes it a hard problem to tackle is that some audiophiles actually prefer...
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    Detailed Speaker Setup and Optimization

    Whether he was surprised is not relevant. Him calling a 1 foot movement "small" is the issue. That's categorically wrong and materially misleading to readers who are not well versed in setup. This is related to Ron's thread on "Does everything matter", the better a system is setup, the more...
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    Todd's AG Trio G3 System -- it's about time

    Yes, I have seen first hand that even though during the setup process the right speaker is turned out for 80% of that time, a properly setup left speaker can still impart soundstage and imaging information. It was trippy to hear sounds move across the stage with only one speaker pointed at you...
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    Taiko Audio SGM Extreme : the Crème de la Crème

    Not sure design decisions could be considered a "feature" when it breaks spec and compliance with the fundamental protocol that enables the underlying technology
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    Best solid state preamps around $15k used with remotes

    VTL TL 7.5 Series III
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    The Digital Director - A new MSB product improving everything from the source to the output

    Markus, what input method were you using with the Ref dac before the DD? How big was the improvement with the DD and can you describe it a bit more?
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    Nordost QBase 10 Reference

    Has anyone compared this to the Shunyata Everest?
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    A new star in 2019 : Innuos Statement Server

    I wouldn't give up on Innuos just yet. Maybe contact Nuno and see if they will offer to help you out with this situation
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    A new star in 2019 : Innuos Statement Server

    Thanks for sharing. With the next gen PSU upgrade in place, did the dc cables bring another large incremental improvement? What do the DC cables change?
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    DOES ANYONE REGRET BUYING A TAIKO EXTREME SERVER? ANYTHING BETTER?

    That comparison doesn't make any sense, unless you add another $15K worth of network infrastructure to the Pink Faun as well. The products should be evaluated on their own merits. There are plenty of Taiko extreme owners stating on that thread that the latest Roon sounds better than the latest...
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    DOES ANYONE REGRET BUYING A TAIKO EXTREME SERVER? ANYTHING BETTER?

    Agreed, sounds like purely conjecture. It takes A LOT for streaming to compete with other forms of media
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