Taiko Audio SGM Extreme : the Crème de la Crème
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That is the transformer/power distribution home dedicated to our building! We have a 60KW uplink which can be extended to 90KW should we need it
Congrats Emile,
the building looks terrific.
I assume Bauhaus style with high ceilings
Matt
We have 2 listening rooms planned for now:
4.45*6.45*10.45m and 4.1*7.9*14m. These are relatively large so this time we're going to see if we can get away with mainly addressing decay times, the ceilings will be sprayed with a 2cm paper pulp acoustic layer which on its own simulates to a RTC of 0.6. If we can finetune that with a few carpets and some minor wall treatment that would be excellent.
Congrats Emile,
the building looks terrific.
I assume Bauhaus style with high ceilings
Matt
4.1 - 4.45
Furthermore:
We are currently working overtime to ship out all Extremes and Daizas ordered before the 1st of this month before we start moving in ~2 weeks, we have all the parts/materials, it's a sizeable amount of machines we have to built and Daizas we have to machine, but we're halfway through!
Then on TAS:
-We have a fully operational version driving HQPlayer in both upsampling as in bit-perfect mode (HQPlayer is not bit-perfect so this is a very nice feature to be able to offer), which we intended to start alpha testing with as our own player did not support native DSD playback yet (only DoP).
-But as of this Monday we have our own player working with both native DSD and PCM playback, Wilson is currently integrating it into the server / frontend, so we'll likely start rolling this out rather quickly after a short alpha:
As we are now getting close to our move, this will probably have to wait till the 15th of November though.
On to the USB card project:
-Fully operational now, we ran into a few issues writing the firmware for the USB controller (new terrain), and the PCB's need another revision, but this should be the final design, ETA on the pre-production batch prior to ordering the final production quantity batch is 4 weeks. We should have production quantity levels halfway into December.
The Switch:
-Took a bit longer then the USB card due to a more advanced high speed Data analysis / simulation needed, but the first PCB's are expected to arrive in about 2-3 weeks (while we are moving).
Altogether exciting times for us. First obviously the move, secondly we are closing in on having full control over the entire playback chain with everything involved. Server - player - driver - firmware - controller and of course much more control over the network side of things.
We are currently working overtime to ship out all Extremes and Daizas ordered before the 1st of this month before we start moving in ~2 weeks, we have all the parts/materials, it's a sizeable amount of machines we have to built and Daizas we have to machine, but we're halfway through!
Then on TAS:
-We have a fully operational version driving HQPlayer in both upsampling as in bit-perfect mode (HQPlayer is not bit-perfect so this is a very nice feature to be able to offer), which we intended to start alpha testing with as our own player did not support native DSD playback yet (only DoP).
-But as of this Monday we have our own player working with both native DSD and PCM playback, Wilson is currently integrating it into the server / frontend, so we'll likely start rolling this out rather quickly after a short alpha:
As we are now getting close to our move, this will probably have to wait till the 15th of November though.
On to the USB card project:
-Fully operational now, we ran into a few issues writing the firmware for the USB controller (new terrain), and the PCB's need another revision, but this should be the final design, ETA on the pre-production batch prior to ordering the final production quantity batch is 4 weeks. We should have production quantity levels halfway into December.
The Switch:
-Took a bit longer then the USB card due to a more advanced high speed Data analysis / simulation needed, but the first PCB's are expected to arrive in about 2-3 weeks (while we are moving).
Altogether exciting times for us. First obviously the move, secondly we are closing in on having full control over the entire playback chain with everything involved. Server - player - driver - firmware - controller and of course much more control over the network side of things.
Steve williams
Site Founder, Site Owner, Administrator
Kudos to you and your team Emile for something so deserved. I'm betting you'll out grow this one in a few years with all of your success. Well deserved Emile
So much for the lunchroom. . .
Just as well, people would be hanging out, drinking coffee and who would get the work done?
Steve Z
This is a really exciting roadmap, and looking forward to these enhancements!
Nearly total control.
Can we call that a Taiko Audio Network Music Habitat?
Big congratulations!
Congratulations Emile! Must be so exciting moving to a bigger space and upgrading the factory
Fantastic news Emile
So it looks like it will be a package.
USB card and software .
Could you plese be do kind to share a little more details about this card , softwere and pictures if possible and only if you find a spare time that I am sure will not be easy.
wow...........TAS will have a command line interface?
TAS will be remote controlled from App iOs and Android apps only. There will also be a Windows Desktop controller down the road
There is no plan for a command line interface as that would make the use cases more complicated making consistent behavior more difficult
We have tested the SQ Delta between command line and remote, and Wilson has achieved a very small SQ Delta by self coding his own communications routine and not using off the self libraries
Just upgraded from Roon 571 to 610 with a loss of SQ. Has anyone managed to tweak themselves back to the SQ of 571? I read on the forums that deleting all of the filters in Roon helped and that also worked for me. I have also upgraded the MSB drivers and firmware for the Pro USB Firmware and lost all the latency settings. I noticed that making my way through the MSB Driver Control Panel you can read the latency amounts. I ended up using the lowest ASIO buffer setting of 8 samples gives you the lowest latency. I used to use Minimum and 2048 Buffer size with the previous driver 4.14 - now on 4.86.0. You can download the drivers and firmware from here:
Drivers - https://www.msbtechnology.com/usbdrivers/
Pro USB Firmware - https://www.msbtechnology.com/prousbfirmware/
NB - You must install the driver first and then firmware
Drivers - https://www.msbtechnology.com/usbdrivers/
Pro USB Firmware - https://www.msbtechnology.com/prousbfirmware/
NB - You must install the driver first and then firmware
ASIO buffer size settings do make a big difference, but the best sounding setting for buffer size for a particular piece of music can vary
Taiko Audio commissioned a custom ASIO driver from Thesycon with buffer size control and compatible with XMOS 1 and 2 USB receiver controllers.
This custom driver will allow ASIO buffer size settings to be adjusted from the Taiko iPhone / Android player control app
Taiko Audio commissioned a custom ASIO driver from Thesycon with buffer size control and compatible with XMOS 1 and 2 USB receiver controllers.
This custom driver will allow ASIO buffer size settings to be adjusted from the Taiko iPhone / Android player control app
