Recent content by Lukasz "Lampizator" Fikus

  1. Lukasz "Lampizator" Fikus

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

    I need LOTS OF aluminium, if I could melt that and build Horizons out of it, wouldn't it BE COOL??! The second derivative of the Olympus.
  2. Lukasz "Lampizator" Fikus

    LampizatOr Introduces Native XDMI Functionality-The Next Horizon

    Hello everybody, I am just packing my car to go to Munich and I am very excited because we will partner in the main HALLE2 with DearWolf / La Linea speaker company, among other good companies - a startup from Poland made by the people who know what they are doing. Be prepared for a good sound...
  3. Lukasz "Lampizator" Fikus

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

    Hello everybody, I am just packing my car to go to Munich and I am very excited because we will partner in the main HALLE2 with DearWolf / La Linea speaker company, among other good companies - a startup from Poland made by the people who know what they are doing. Be prepared for a good sound...
  4. Lukasz "Lampizator" Fikus

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

    All existing inputs and outputs on both the server and the DAC remain fully operational
  5. Lukasz "Lampizator" Fikus

    Lampizator Golden Gate 3 Impressions

    Engine 11 is a rather sophisticated DAC board, with 8 separate grounds and 8 separate supplies and regulators and rectifiers. The regular 11 is like "make it as simple as possible" and the 11P is like "make it the best you possibly can, money is no object". It results in more sophisticated, more...
  6. Lukasz "Lampizator" Fikus

    Lampizator Baltic 4

    Hello, rockna is a very good DAC and it is a hard contender but Baltic4 will have everything that you are missing from Rockna. This is exactly the reason of existence of our company. We have a 7 day test period with refund. You can test safely.
  7. Lukasz "Lampizator" Fikus

    LampizatOr Baltic 3

    ECC40 are among the best tubes ever, althought they are (not arguably but statistically) the most prone to failure.
  8. Lukasz "Lampizator" Fikus

    Taiko Audio SGM Extreme : the Crème de la Crème

    "Btw, would love to hear any further sonic impressions - original Horizon vs. retrofitted Horizon running the 'Taiko Simulator'...." The simulator uses Taiko signal transfer protocol but the music source is a normal computer and compared with the same material played the traditional way the...
  9. Lukasz "Lampizator" Fikus

    Taiko Audio SGM Extreme : the Crème de la Crème

    Concerning the retro-fit upgrades of Horizon to Taiko Olympus link - we will do it gladly but AFTER the Olympus is produced and we can test it. While new units are produced blindly on the assumption that everything should work, there is a big cost involved in retrofit work shipping and handling...
  10. Lukasz "Lampizator" Fikus

    Taiko Audio SGM Extreme : the Crème de la Crème

    Hello, this is the latest weather report from the Taiko Olympus situation at Lampizator. We have 11 units of Horizon partly assembled and with the TAIKO XDMI link built in, and my Horizon guy just this morning ended in the hospital with a knee injury and I just lost a week. I am not sure if...
  11. Lukasz "Lampizator" Fikus

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

    To keep things tidy and in one place I just added the summary of Lampizator DAC-Taiko Olympus relationship on our website under Horizon description: https://www.lampizatorpoland.com/horizon
  12. Lukasz "Lampizator" Fikus

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

    Concerning the retrofits: the nature of this job - many changes in hardware, electronics, firmware, programming, labelling and a sophisticated end test - dictate that ONLY factory can do it. As a bonus we will do a free periodic maintenance checkup and we will issue a fresh bill of health also -...
  13. Lukasz "Lampizator" Fikus

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

    Hello, we ae sending this week a batch of boards to print, it should take 2 weeks after that and we will be ready. In the meantime we have to create custom firmware package to take care of switching, muting and whole GUI housekeeping. We also order parts etc. Realistically March 01 could be the...
  14. Lukasz "Lampizator" Fikus

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

    I am chiming in since so much interesting developments happened just this week. We have been monitoring the development of Taiko new protocol because obviously we never wanted to stay behind. Basically my developments followed on weekly basis every hint of where Emile is going with his plan...

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