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    Taiko Audio SGM Extreme : the Crème de la Crème

    Emile is there a rough time estimate for when the XDMI balanced XLR analogue output might be released?
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    Introducing Olympus & Olympus I/O - A new perspective on modern music playback

    Any timeframe on that? Personally I would get all three daughterboards.
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    Introducing Olympus & Olympus I/O - A new perspective on modern music playback

    This is great news! Amazing speed of development! When will be the earliest for ordering the retrofit package for Horizon and when for the third party cable?
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    Taiko Audio XDMS - Extreme Direct Music Server Software

    I have tried alternative and I clearly prefer default. More 3d and layered.
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    Introducing Olympus & Olympus I/O - A new perspective on modern music playback

    Just out of curiosity, how expensive is too expensive? We might all be surprised at how much the community actually is willing to pay for thing "done right". The expense might be a smaller problem than one might think. Just look at how many orders Olympus and OIO are getting.
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    Taiko Audio Extreme Router

    Any chance the router will be able to support 10G network at some point?
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    Introducing Olympus & Olympus I/O - A new perspective on modern music playback

    I there any chance that in 3 months when the Olympus and OIO XDMI ships it will ship with finished native daughterboard and native XDMI input module for horizon?
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    Introducing Olympus & Olympus I/O - A new perspective on modern music playback

    My two cents. XDMI is designed to improve two things: 1. From player to digital signal out. 2. From digital signal out to DAC getting I2S. For player to digital signal out: this step will usually need to go through a) Windows drivers b) Some hardware for digital output, e.g. a USB PCIE...
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    Introducing Olympus & Olympus I/O - A new perspective on modern music playback

    If you read between the lines, I think that the analogue out of XDMI might be stupid good, but since it's new they don't want to brag but rather get that feedback from actual users. If you consider O+OIO+XDMI as a server+dac package the price is not at all high actually. I just would want...
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    Introducing Olympus & Olympus I/O - A new perspective on modern music playback

    Would the future connection from XDMI to I2S on Horizon be the most optimal connection method possible or would it be even better if the DAC could have a native XDMI input somehow?
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    Taiko Audio SGM Extreme : the Crème de la Crème

    I would say don't bother. The DAC in the HE 1 is pretty bad, the Rossini will be much better.
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    Lampizator announcement: launch of our all new TOTL HORIZON DAC

    Yea, I have very high expectations. :D
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    Lampizator announcement: launch of our all new TOTL HORIZON DAC

    Don't forget native XDMI connection between Extreme and Horizon.
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    Taiko Audio SGM Extreme : the Crème de la Crème

    Are there any third party DAC cables that you can buy? I remember it being mentioned in the thread but can't find it.
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    Taiko Audio SGM Extreme : the Crème de la Crème

    My solution to that problem would be to manually remove the gateway from the wifi connection settings so that all internet traffic of the pc goes to the cable connection and only xdms/roon traffic goes to extreme.
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    Taiko Audio SGM Extreme : the Crème de la Crème

    So I was describing a scenario where a windows pc is connected to zone a through a network cable and zone b through wifi at the same time. If that would have similar performance to the ipad.
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    Taiko Audio SGM Extreme : the Crème de la Crème

    I often use the Windows client. Would it work if I with the windows pc connect to the normal network through network cable and get a say 192.168.1.x ip and connect to the taiko router through wifi and get a say 192.168.2.x ip, manually leave gateway blank on the wifi connection settings so that...
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    Taiko Audio SGM Extreme : the Crème de la Crème

    One thing I never really understood is how the sound can be better with the switch connected vs no network at all?
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    Taiko Audio SGM Extreme : the Crème de la Crème

    I have more or less the same setup as you. The Taiko switch greatly improves the sound of Brand X server and I'm sure the router and power distributor will improve it even more. For service connections I will be connecting either a cable from the router to the service ports or the router to...
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    Taiko Audio SGM Extreme : the Crème de la Crème

    Would order one in an instant. :)
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    Taiko Audio SGM Extreme : the Crème de la Crème

    I’d order one in an instant. Will it become commercially available?
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    Taiko Audio SGM Extreme : the Crème de la Crème

    Would lifting the ground (cutting off the shield) on one side of the DAC cable work?
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    Taiko Audio SGM Extreme : the Crème de la Crème

    Have you tried connecting the buffalo switch to router using a utp cable instead of dac cable? The dac cable will connect the grounds of the buffalo switch and router and might be detrimental.
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    Taiko Audio SGM Extreme : the Crème de la Crème

    I have, I prefer Ferrum Hypsos with a SR purple fuse for it by quite a lot.
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    Taiko Audio SGM Extreme : the Crème de la Crème

    I have an ARC6 DC4 with two 12v outputs. Could you maybe share what changes/adjustments you made to it and are they possible to do by myself?
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    Taiko Audio SGM Extreme : the Crème de la Crème

    Windows clearly sounds better than Linux and always has. It also sounds better than Mac. As an audiophile what I care about is sq. I really couldn’t care less if the server is able to stay up running for 10 years without restart instead of say 2 months (for that matter I have never had a...
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    Taiko Audio SGM Extreme : the Crème de la Crème

    Have you compared XDMS to Roon yet? Is the gap smaller with the switch?
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    Taiko Audio SGM Extreme : the Crème de la Crème

    Agreed, not for the faint of heart, but definitely something I would pursue if at all possible. I think the benefit would be enormous.
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    Taiko Audio SGM Extreme : the Crème de la Crème

    I have currently changed my fiber modem to a higher grade one with a lpsu, sq uplift was very big, on par with a switch upgrade. However, it entailed changing the mac address of the new modem to the same as the operator supplied one. Is it possible to do that with the Taiko router?
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    Taiko Audio SGM Extreme : the Crème de la Crème

    If I would guess, I think that filtering out the relatively massive amounts of unwanted network traffic and associated processing probably helps at least as much as improving the clock and removing noise from the signal/ground.

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