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    Cessaro Alpha Horns + Taiko + Kronos + DIY DAC and Interview With Vassil -- He Prefers Digital!

    Wow! So cool to "meet" both of you! What a great chat. Such a fun story and so many fascinating toys and tweaks.
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    Introducing Olympus & Olympus I/O - A new perspective on modern music playback

    I suggest checking out the dedicated thread for that product over here: (1) BACCH-SP: The future of high-end audio? Yes. | What's Best Audio and Video Forum. The Best High End Audio Forum on the planet! (whatsbestforum.com) This thread is for discussing the new Taiko Olympus and Olympus I/O.
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    Introducing Olympus & Olympus I/O - A new perspective on modern music playback

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

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

    Emile could just record to .wav, convert that to .flac (losslessly) and attach the files here or put them on Dropbox (etc). No need to involve YouTube at all… (not that I’m asking for this — just pointing out that it seemed a bit of a leap to equate “recording” with YouTube?)
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    QSA LANEDRI Series

    Same. Minus the bathroom fan. I did also try them on my stereo using AirPlay and the differences were even clearer
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    Introducing Olympus & Olympus I/O - A new perspective on modern music playback

    That's completely understandable, Emile. Bummer to hear someone copied your design (ugh). As you may recall, my DIY Extreme is based on the same motherboard (ASUS SAGE), CPUs (Xeon Silvers), and underlying OS (Win10 LTS) as the Extreme, so it should be "plug and play." I still have my DC-DC ATX...
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    Introducing Olympus & Olympus I/O - A new perspective on modern music playback

    @Taiko Audio this is beautiful, compelling work! Will there be a way for DIY Extreme builders to add an Olympus I/O to their setup? (A PCIe to XDMI interface board perhaps?)
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    QSA LANEDRI Series

    And even stranger is that the harm stems from places few would suspect and has downstream effects that reach further than fewer could predict... People who are skeptical about power treatment often site the "miles and miles" of "dubious quality cable" and "very noisy transformers" (etc.)...
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    Sablon Evo usb cable

    Thanks, Mark. =^) The Gustard x26 Pro is based on the XU216 XMOS USB chipset. It's (so far) been working flawlessly with everything I can throw at it via other USB cables. Generally, I PGGB or HQP my music and feed the DAC a steady diet of 32/384 or 32/768 PCM (12.2Mbps), which is a splash in...
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    Sablon Evo usb cable

    I’m wondering if anyone here has had any trouble with pops or crackles / ultra-brief breakups during playback with their Evo USB cable? I just added one (new/unopened but second-hand) to my system (replacing a Lush^2 that was my mainstay for a couple years) and first things first: *everything*...
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    QSA LANEDRI Series

    Not to pivot this into a Taiko party, but my server design was highly influenced by the SGM Extreme and it’s no slouch. That said, there are a handful of (non-trivial) differences with my DIY and the real deal which are likely widening the gap between the NIC + QSA experience vs. the internal...
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    QSA LANEDRI Series

    That’s a solid move. Swapping (non-QSA) copper for fiber has galvanic isolation benefits that often outweigh the other factors. Some of the biggest early leaps my system experienced (back in the microRendu era…) was inserting fiber into the copper run between my server and streamer I still use...
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    QSA LANEDRI Series

    And how! I had grown so accustomed to the benefits of the Gamma Infinity cable that I had all but forgotten what music sounds like without it. @alwayslearning has graced my home before with QSA cabling in tow (a pair of the Speaker Cables and an RCA cable) and they worked similar magic in my...
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    QSA LANEDRI Series

    Thanks for the amazing writeup! Many of us have been quite curious about those cables. It was nice experiencing them vicariously :)
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