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    QSA LANEDRI Series

    Yes, Mark, I'm sure I was using your earlier version of the Prince. And yes, I'm pretty sure that my QSA-treated version would be palladium since I received a new Spectra Infinity as opposed to receiving my old Prince with treatment.
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    QSA LANEDRI Series

    I have now had a Spectra Infinity power cord in my system for about a month and a half. This means I now have end-to-end QSA cabling in my analogue system. On the digital side, the only cabling that is not QSA is between my Taiko Extreme music server and my Chord DAVE DAC. That consists of a...
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    QSA LANEDRI Series

    I would agree with Willgolf: ask Anas and stretch, if you can, to Infinity on both speaker cables and/or the power cord from the wall to your power conditioner. I started with three Gamma Revelation power cords and Gamma Infinity speaker cables. The single biggest impact was provided by the...
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    QSA LANEDRI Series

    I have now played music for about 300 hours on a pair of Ultimatum Infinity speaker cables. Prior to that, Anas told me they had, at most, five days of low wattage burn-in. These cables are replacing a pair of Gamma Infinity speaker cables. First, a little background on my system. For years...
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    Introducing Olympus & Olympus I/O - A new perspective on modern music playback

    I'm one of those Chord DAVE/PGGB users and I will be ordering an Olympus XDMI so you can bet that my 16fs PGGB files will be getting a workout with XDMI and XDMS/NMS. And of course I will be comparing them to non-PGGB files. I haven't actually asked Taiko to install XDMS yet but that will soon...
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    Introducing Olympus & Olympus I/O - A new perspective on modern music playback

    I would like to note that Emile responded to my question in less than 10 minutes while working late on a Saturday night in Holland.
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    Introducing Olympus & Olympus I/O - A new perspective on modern music playback

    Emile, I really appreciate your availability, patience, and thoughtfulness when faced with the barrage of questions here. Of course you knew that was coming. I have what I think is a simple question. Early on in the development of TACDA you said you had chosen a Rohm DAC chip for this project...
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    Introducing Olympus & Olympus I/O - A new perspective on modern music playback

    Wow, I was not expecting changes and offerings of this magnitude. For those of us with more modest ambitions, do you expect to release something like TACDA as initially described months ago: a card with RCA analogue outputs that can be installed by the user of the Extreme? In other words, a DAC...
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    Taiko Audio SGM Extreme : the Crème de la Crème

    Got the update as I was sleeping last night -- thank you Emile and Taiko! Roon sounds great and I don't even have the Switch and NIC, which Emile says will extract more goodness out of the OS update. I probably speak for some percentage of Extreme owners when I say that the new product I am...
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    QSA LANEDRI Series

    Well said, @jeremya!
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    QSA LANEDRI Series

    This is the next chapter in my ongoing adventures with QSA-L DC extension cables. You might want to review my posts #462 and #506 in this thread to see what I said about my initial experience with a single DC extension cable in my two systems. What’s new this time around is the fact that I now...
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    QSA LANEDRI Series

    Hi @ssfas. The Rubinstein album I listened to is the RCA Living Stereo Chopin Ballades and Scherzos. Specifically, the SACD remaster. It was ripped to a DSF DSD64 file and played through the dCS Mosaic app using Filter 5 on my Bartok. I have to say that this 1959 album sounds pretty damn good...
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    QSA LANEDRI Series

    This is Chapter 2 of my ongoing adventures with the QSA Lanedri DC extension cable. Note that QSA-L is no longer selling the extension cable, which generally requires another DC cable in the chain and often requires adapters. Rather, you can now buy a DC cable with custom terminations that work...
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    QSA LANEDRI Series

    There are some really counterintuitive things about the QSA products. I agree that it is puzzling -- very puzzling! -- that the positive impact of the QSA DC cable is greater on the router than the closer-to-the-source EtherRegen. And I haven't heard any rational explanation for that, but it is...
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    QSA LANEDRI Series

    Yes, Taiko is talking about the best connection into its Switch, and it recommends ethernet over fiber. But you may be right that noise could be further reduced by, for example, implementing your suggestion of router > fiber > OM > good ethernet cable > Taiko Switch. Indeed, I have a second...
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    QSA LANEDRI Series

    Thank you for your comments, @kennyb123 and @jeremya. It really was a fun afternoon and educational. Maybe the track that wowed me the most was North Dakota from Lyle Lovett's 1992 Joshua Judges Ruth album. That tune has been a favorite and a test track for over a decade. With all of the QSA...
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    QSA LANEDRI Series

    Hi @dbastin -- I appreciate your thoughts. I've thought about running fiber rather than ethernet for my very long (60-80 feet) run through the house. In fact, I have a system at another house with another long run where I do use fiber and convert it at each end with a Sonore Optical Module...
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    QSA LANEDRI Series

    For the last five or six days, I have had a QSA Lanedri Gamma Infinity DC extension cable in the house. This is a demo that has been making the rounds here in the Pacific Northwest – thank you QSA Lanedri for providing this opportunity! I’ve tried the DC extension cable in a few different...
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    QSA LANEDRI Series

    Do you have a sense of the relative improvement from the SFP+ DAC cable vs the DC Extension cable? I realize this can be difficult to determine sometimes but as a prospective buyer of both cables, I'm always looking for the most bang for my buck.
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    QSA LANEDRI Series

    That would be interesting. I have owned a number of WyWires products including interconnects (Gold), speaker cables (the Daedalus version), and the Platinum headphone cables. I have a very high regard for WyWires. Alex also provides great customer service. So I would expect his power cord to...
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    QSA LANEDRI Series

    I have already posted my impressions of various QSA Lanedri cables on pages 5 and 8 of this thread. This is an update based on some comparisons I have done over the summer. Specifically, I've been inserting my Gamma Revelation power cords in some different locations and comparing them to other...
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    QSA LANEDRI Series

    Truly insightful review with lots of practical information on installation of the speaker cables. Your comments on the burn-in period are also helpful. And your description of the sound gives me a very good feel for what you are hearing. Thanks!
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    Taiko Audio SGM Extreme : the Crème de la Crème

    Thanks for the explanation, Christiaan.
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    Taiko Audio SGM Extreme : the Crème de la Crème

    I thought that Taiko's forthcoming DAC did not make use of any USB connection or zone -- that it was an entirely new implementation developed by Taiko that bypassed the limitations of USB. But surely we could expect to use XDMS with Taiko's own DAC, yes? What am I not understanding?
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    Taiko Audio SGM Extreme : the Crème de la Crème

    There is a famous and great French horn solo in the second movement of Tchaik 5 (says the former French horn player).
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    Klaudio’s Pivoted Linear Tangential Tonearm

    I also had the pleasure of visiting Peter's audio playland about 10 days ago. Truly amazing what Peter has built from scratch. Here are some more photos:
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    Taiko Audio SGM Extreme : the Crème de la Crème

    @Taiko Audio -- It seems like all the attention lately has been on the Switch, NIC, and Router, with additional questions about the BPS. All that is great and I am impressed with how much you have been accomplishing and the positive results you have been achieving. For me, however, and I...
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    Taiko Audio SGM Extreme : the Crème de la Crème

    Thank you! I figured you guys would be on top of it.
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    Taiko Audio SGM Extreme : the Crème de la Crème

    @Taiko Audio - Just received the message "TAS Beta has expired." Can't get TestFlight to renew it without a link in an email or an invitation code. I know this has happened before. I'm hoping that TAS can be renewed since I generally prefer it to Roon. I would shift to XDMS but the large file...
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    QSA LANEDRI Series

    Listening to Vinyl Over the last six years or so, I feel like analog has been my neglected child as I poured money into my digital system and reaped the benefits. A couple years ago I bought a Shunyata Everest and a loom of Shunyata’s power cables (see above) and that definitely helped analog...

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