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  1. jeremya

    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.
  2. jeremya

    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.
  3. jeremya

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

  4. jeremya

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

  5. jeremya

    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?)
  6. jeremya

    QSA LANEDRI Series

    Same. Minus the bathroom fan. I did also try them on my stereo using AirPlay and the differences were even clearer
  7. jeremya

    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...
  8. jeremya

    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?)
  9. jeremya

    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.)...
  10. jeremya

    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...
  11. jeremya

    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*...
  12. jeremya

    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...
  13. jeremya

    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...
  14. jeremya

    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...
  15. jeremya

    QSA LANEDRI Series

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

    QSA LANEDRI Series

    Thanks for clarifying, Anas! That being the case, the article text still has the same typo I called out before:
  17. jeremya

    QSA LANEDRI Series

    Thank you! btw, I found this bit a tad confusing: Is perhaps the negative speaker arrow supposed to go on the [speaker] end? Also, should the red arrows be attached to the red terminals, and the gold to the white (opposite what is pictured), or do the red-trimmed cables really go to the...
  18. jeremya

    QSA LANEDRI Series

    +1… :(:(:(
  19. jeremya

    Good mid-price audiophile switches

    For what it's worth, I've really been enjoying my Synergistic Research Ethernet Switch UEF. It's a tad more expensive than the Extreme version of the Ediscreation switch (which I haven't had the pleasure of hearing), but I'd say it still falls in the "mid-priced" switch category, perhaps at the...
  20. jeremya

    QSA LANEDRI Series

    Same — Gamma Infinity to Denali v2, the rest feeds off of that (I have some other things in the middle).
  21. jeremya

    QSA LANEDRI Series

    Thanks for asking. :) I actually never tried QSA products before the LANEDRI cables started being discussed and ultimately delivered. Previously, I could never bring myself to spend more than ~$200 on a “wear part” — something designed to ultimately fail if it’s doing its job right — and QSA...
  22. jeremya

    QSA LANEDRI Series

    Yes. I look forward to finding out once a Red Jitter (or better, or perhaps a Violet) shows up on secondary for somewhere around 50% of list.
  23. jeremya

    QSA - Lanedri and the Audiophile Version of the Philosophers’ Stone

    Some definitions I dug up: (Source). If those definitions are accurate, it would seem that EAM and electroplasticity require bending or deforming the metal while electricity is applied. I’m not convinced that is practical / wise with a fully-assembled cable or feasible with a PowerJitter hard...
  24. jeremya

    QSA LANEDRI Series

    Thanks for pointing the silliness of the conversion out. What that was was a photo of a dying, swollen LR44 battery’s effect on the accuracy of my micrometer. I’ve replaced the battery and corrected the photo in-place.
  25. jeremya

    QSA LANEDRI Series

  26. jeremya

    QSA LANEDRI Series

    The same as the Revelation (I believe the only difference is the amount of time the cable spends getting QSA'd). I don't know that outer diameter on the cable sleeve really matters as there's a lot of inner geometry differences, shielding, insulation (etc.) between every cable out there. Take...
  27. jeremya

    QSA LANEDRI Series

    When I got the Sigma XC v2 (it's 6 gauge), I was convinced it was going to be my main squeeze for the next 3-5 years. Instead, it lasted 3-5 weeks. :p Zero regrets, no concerns. :cool:
  28. jeremya

    QSA LANEDRI Series

    TL;DR - @kennyb123's experience and mine have been similar. QSA LANEDRI cables have brought readily-apparent improvements to perceived resolution, naturalness, and dimensionality across the board. I am probably an oddity around these parts in that I have two complete audio systems smashed into...
  29. jeremya

    QSA LANEDRI Series

    It's the unenviable Catch-22 of the audio/videophile... and while I'm the first to admit that a multi-thousand dollar power cord can breathe all kinds of life into sub-$1000 equipment of all shapes and sizes, it does give me pause every time I try it. The usual argument is "for that kind of...
  30. jeremya

    QSA LANEDRI Series

    While it wasn't a priority for me before, I'm kind of curious about what a QSA Lanedri PC (with the 'clarity' treatement) would do to my Marantz SR8105 AVR. I also had the blasphemous thought of a PC for the Apple TV 4K (which takes a Figure-8 terminated cord) wander through my brain shortly...

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