Taiko Audio SGM Extreme : the Crème de la Crème
- Thread starter CKKeung
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I would think the digital interface would be powered internally by the BPS the same way as a USB card this not need a DC jack, unless I misunderstood your post?
I’m not sure. The amount of wattage needed to power the digital interface + the analog components are probably going to be orders of magnitude higher than for the usb or even network interface card.
And we already have a two way splitter. Will there be a three way splitter for this?
And we already have a two way splitter. Will there be a three way splitter for this?
12V, maybe an additional 5V, it depends a bit on the interfaces we are currently testing. We actually have multiple new interfaces which can add a lot of flexibility and expansion options.
You’d probably choose either the USB card or the new interface. But we have a solution coming up for that too.
Steve williams
Site Founder, Site Owner, Administrator
I haven’t had my coffee yet but here it is ….the pearl of the day. Now you have our minds racing Emile
I haven’t had my coffee yet but here it is ….the pearl of the day. Now you have our minds racing Emile
I knew you would write that!
Steve williams
Site Founder, Site Owner, Administrator
My days are never complete until my first task of each morning is to read this thread which I think has a life of its own with almost 16500 posts and well over 2 million views. Thanks to CKKeung for starting this thread which has resulted in an almost cult like following as all of us cherish our Taiko Extreme and salivate thinking what the 17 new projects Taiko has in the pipeline and to be released over the next few years. Every day Emile with his succinct posts always drops a pearl of things to come. I love it and this thread has created so many new friendships around the world where we all share the same love of this product. Looking forward to the shipping of the cards at the end of this coming week. All of us will be up and running shortly. Patience is a virtue and so far Taiko has never failed to deliver and it's always a revelation when Emile finally reveals what his solutions are. This is truly "The Never Ending Story"
I'd like to add observation #3...I received my Switch today courtesy of FedEx. Two observations:
1) I wondered, what the hell could possibly be in this thing and what might its specific gravity possibly be?
So I looked it up. Here's the table I found:
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2) I was only able to listen briefly before I headed out to Carnegie to hear The Philadelphia Orchestra play Stravinsky's Rite of Spring and wondered if what I was about to hear would be as good as what I heard through the Taiko Switch.
I was very surprised to see that when I returned today from last night's concert, Roon radio was still playing (24+ hours)! That has never happened before! It is apparently widely recognized that Roon radio is highly "network sensitive", whatever that means. Emile has said that the switch helps "stabilize" Roon in that regard. So my question for Emile is simply why? Can you share what about the switch makes Roon far more stable when running with the switch, than just running a direct line from modem to the Extreme?
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Well it doesn’t really stabilize but it is a stable performer unlike a surprising amount of other gear. Virtually all of our support on Roon is caused by either a faulty automatic Roon update or poor networking performance like bad performing switches, cabling or 100Mbit networking.
I'm getting pauses while playing files or streaming. Never had this happen. With Roon into the Album it stops, it says nothing playing, after about 5 seconds it go's back to where it paused. I have to hit play from here or play and it resumes. Its done this several times...Its not speeds I have 1gig...EDIT Just switched from the plain Jane inexpensive UTP CAT6a to CAT8, lets see if this stops the pausing...EDIT # 2 Its not the cables pause happened again...
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We have it here, will take photos soon.
I've been an enthusiastic follower of this thread. I was wondering if Taiko will be opening a dedicated thread. That would be convenient for discussing other products such as the switch, network card, the upcoming router, etc. This thread has been very unwieldy when trying to find specific information. I feel now, with newer products, this single thread will make it even more difficult to parse specific info relating to individual products. Thoughts?
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Your reply has interesting implications for possible TPM-less powering of 3rd-party devices. To Be Determined, I believe. Have you chosen an upper threshold for “low current” output, above which a TPM chip would be required?
