Taiko Audio SGM Extreme : the Crème de la Crème

[takacs75]

I am looking for a power distribution upgrade as well. My Niagara 5000 and a Denali 6000T were both outperformed by a Faber's Power Ground Power Six during a home audition I had recently, so I am now intrigued by unfiltered distributors. I will try their top of the line La Potenza distributor as soon as I get the chance.

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A friend strongly recommended the JMF Audio PCD 102, a very expensive unit, especially with sources, which however does filtering. Has anyone here experience with it?

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Anyway I will be waiting for the Taiko BPS options before to decide what to do, although the anticipated pricing being "above the Extreme cost itself" would be beyond what I can afford.

1 more vote for the JMF. I have the bigger brother the PCD302. I’ve heard many power conditioners including the P20. Nothing came even close to JMF. Quite shocking

 

[oldmustang]

A “DIY” strip which unfortunately is not for sale, photos for entertainment value only:

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It's nice to be the boss and have a CNC machine at your disposal!

Steve Z

 

[cat6man]

It's nice to be the boss and have a CNC machine at your disposal!

Steve Z

as Mel Brooks' said, "it's good to be king"

@Taiko Audio -- are you using the switch + router + power distributor + xdms in Munich?

 

[RGB.]

Since we had our dedicated utility transformer tap installed I haven’t used the P20 anymore. The pure power is a bit too lean for my tastes but it has good resolution

@Taiko Audio As a P12 user myself, with a plan to connect a (non NCF) Pure Power to one of the four P12 outlets, and connect three Sean Jacobs PSU for the digital DC-need into the Pure Power. With your experience does that “ P12 – Pure Power – SJx3” sound feasible or not to you?

This is a year I really would have liked to be in Munich, thanks to your innovation!

 

[PhoenixRising]

I am looking for a power distribution upgrade as well. My Niagara 5000 and a Denali 6000T were both outperformed by a Faber's Power Ground Power Six during a home audition I had recently, so I am now intrigued by unfiltered distributors. I will try their top of the line La Potenza distributor as soon as I get the chance.

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A friend strongly recommended the JMF Audio PCD 102, a very expensive unit, especially with sources, which however does filtering. Has anyone here experience with it?

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Anyway I will be waiting for the Taiko BPS options before to decide what to do, although the anticipated pricing being "above the Extreme cost itself" would be beyond what I can afford.

I've not heard it, though + 1 on the JMF PCD102 through the grapevine......
Also check out the Sound Application TT-7......
Many endorsements on Jim's website, including Mo-Fi; similar price to JMF
He's been at it for 30 years !

 

[MarkusBarkus]

TT-7 is very good, IMO.

 

[Audire]

I am looking for a power distribution upgrade as well. My Niagara 5000 and a Denali 6000T were both outperformed by a Faber's Power Ground Power Six during a home audition I had recently, so I am now intrigued by unfiltered distributors. I will try their top of the line La Potenza distributor as soon as I get the chance.

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I‘m getting a demo of the S.I.N. Audio soon. It may be worth chevking out. OZ should be able to set you up for a demo.

S.I.N. Audio

 

[nuway]

Have any Extreme Owners or Emile tried the Netgear M5 modem/router using 5G T-Mobile. I have one for travel and tried yesterday. Just 5G built in wireless in low power mode. 2.4G off. No time yet to listen extensively but In my system It went, at least, two steps above of my dedicated current ATT fiber 1tb. I just tried M5-Bluejean Cat6-Melco-DAC to Extreme (old Fiber Card). Look forward to get the silver Switch-Router when available.

 

[Sablon Audio]

Have any Extreme Owners or Emile tried the Netgear M5 modem/router using 5G T-Mobile. I have one for travel and tried yesterday. Just 5G built in wireless in low power mode. 2.4G off. No time yet to listen extensively but In my system It went, at least, two steps above of my dedicated current ATT fiber 1tb. I just tried M5-Bluejean Cat6-Melco-DAC to Extreme (old Fiber Card). Look forward to get the silver Switch-Router when available.

Thanks for the data point Carlos, this was on my to-do list once I had calibrated on the mAP Lite.

 

[Taiko Audio]

I hope there is very thick wire inside to support all 8 sockets.

No wire inside!

 

[RUIN*ish]

No wire inside!

Welded with buss bar?

 

[Taiko Audio]

as Mel Brooks' said, "it's good to be king"

@Taiko Audio -- are you using the switch + router + power distributor + xdms in Munich?

We don’t use the router nor xdms because of the ”large” number of “deejays” as we don’t have a XDMS remote for iphones. We do use 2 DC distributors/filters, one for the switch and one to “fix” the fritzbox router provided by the MOC. It’s surprisingly effective!

 

[Taiko Audio]

@Taiko Audio As a P12 user myself, with a plan to connect a (non NCF) Pure Power to one of the four P12 outlets, and connect three Sean Jacobs PSU for the digital DC-need into the Pure Power. With your experience does that “ P12 – Pure Power – SJx3” sound feasible or not to you?

This is a year I really would have liked to be in Munich, thanks to your innovation!

I would just use one SJ psu and a DC distributor.

 

[Taiko Audio]

Have any Extreme Owners or Emile tried the Netgear M5 modem/router using 5G T-Mobile. I have one for travel and tried yesterday. Just 5G built in wireless in low power mode. 2.4G off. No time yet to listen extensively but In my system It went, at least, two steps above of my dedicated current ATT fiber 1tb. I just tried M5-Bluejean Cat6-Melco-DAC to Extreme (old Fiber Card). Look forward to get the silver Switch-Router when available.

I have not.

 

[MOTU]

No wire inside!

I’d order one in an instant. Will it become commercially available?

 

[Taiko Audio]

Welded?

Solid machined copper bars.

 

[Taiko Audio]

I’d order one in an instant. Will it become commercially available?

Well we’re currently not planning to, we wouldn’t have the machining capacity for it right now, it’s a lot of machining! It starts at about 50kg of copper leaving 19.1kg.. We do have a much larger new CNC machine arriving in about a month which might accommodate this. But still this is not a cheap piece, we’d have to charge atleast the equivalent of a Furutech pure power 6e ncf for it.. On the plus side it should not increase the load on our support department.

 

[MOTU]

Well we’re currently not planning to, we wouldn’t have the machining capacity for it right now, it’s a lot of machining! It starts at about 50kg of copper leaving 19.1kg.. We do have a much larger new CNC machine arriving in about a month which might accommodate this. But still this is not a cheap piece, we’d have to charge atleast the equivalent of a Furutech pure power 6e ncf for it.. On the plus side it should not increase the load on our support department.

Would order one in an instant.

 

[jelt2359]

Well we’re currently not planning to, we wouldn’t have the machining capacity for it right now, it’s a lot of machining! It starts at about 50kg of copper leaving 19.1kg.. We do have a much larger new CNC machine arriving in about a month which might accommodate this. But still this is not a cheap piece, we’d have to charge atleast the equivalent of a Furutech pure power 6e ncf for it.. On the plus side it should not increase the load on our support department.

What receptacles do you use for it? I hope not the Furutech ncf’s… they damp the sound a bit too much for my liking.

 

[Taiko Audio]

What receptacles do you use for it? I hope not the Furutech ncf’s… they damp the sound a bit too much for my liking.

Currently Oyaide but I’m not completely satisfied with them, they do impart a degree of mainly midrange colouration. I’ve already discarded furutech ncf, mainly due to “flat imaging” and overly accentuated upper range. The “problem” with this powerstrip is it’s very clear/transparent which makes socket colourations more obvious.