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

[moby2004]

May I suggest to ship all black orders first and this will give even more incentive to people to switch their orders from silver to black.
I admit, I am biaised, I ordered a black one…

 

[RUIN*ish]

Whether it needs it or not, has anyone tried their QSA fuse in the Olympus?

 

[Taiko Audio]

Did you try to contact Rumen Artarski of Thrax Audio fame from Bulgaria? I have heard nothing, but good things about his CNC work and anodizing. You can send him a CAD file and have a full case made andotized to any color you like. He does all the metalwork for his products and many major european brands like Vitus Audio.

I did not, nor was I aware, thank you for the tip!

 

[MarkusBarkus]

The 6 silver are shipping now with a twist

...I hope it's a good twist, like a nonnevot pastry, as I think one of those six Os may be mine!

 

[pleroma]

Just quoting a dealer (though I ordered directly this time Emile). I don't mind waiting. I think you'll figure it all out.

PS - made me think of Paul Hynes for a moment, who still owes me money

 

[Taiko Audio]

Just quoting a dealer (though I ordered directly this time Emile). I don't mind waiting. I think you'll figure it all out.

PS - made me think of Paul Hynes for a moment, who still owes me money

The actual queue number would be around 150.

 

[pleroma]

The actual queue number would be around 150.

Thanks for that Emile. I'm confident in your indefatigable drive, and by then we'll probably have advances rolled in anyway.

Cheers and congrats on the huge success here.

 

[Taiko Audio]

...I hope it's a good twist, like a nonnevot pastry, as I think one of those six Os may be mine!

What we’ve decided to change is to switch from a queue number driven approach to a yield based approach.

This is a different, 2 pronged, approach where we don’t instruct the anodising company to anodise x servers and I/Os in silver, and x in black, in an attempt to follow the queue order, but to just do full batches in a single colour each week.

Subsequently we just build servers and I/Os with good finish quality and ship what we (can) complete to the first matching spot in the queue.

The queue number order is going to be non linear this way but our output in sheer quantity will increase significantly.

 

[nonesup]

What we’ve decided to change is to switch from a queue number driven approach to a yield based approach.

This is a different, 2 pronged, approach where we don’t instruct the anodising company to anodise x servers and I/Os in silver, and x in black, in an attempt to follow the queue order, but to just do full batches in a single colour each week.

Subsequently we just build servers and I/Os with good finish quality and ship what we (can) complete to the first matching spot in the queue.

The queue number order is going to be non linear this way but our output in sheer quantity will increase significantly.

Emile could you post a good quality picture of the Olympus in black?

 

[Tuckia]

They have chosen to optimize the critical path (chassis production), instead of rigidly holding the queue order, which is the right thing to considering the circumstances, imo. But the queue numbers become fluid in a short time window, not shot way down.

 

[wil]

As I look on from afar at this unfortunate anodizing adventure, I’m left thinking “if only Taiko could have foreseen the difficulties…”

If so, they might have decided to offer it only in (beautiful) Black.

And, if so, (as Emile has said here) all the Olympus orders would already be shipped!

I understand that the Silver is obviously preferred by many, but I can’t help but (respectfully) wonder: “Is the chassis color really worth the consequences?”

The consequences being:

1. presumably a far longer wait for all those in the queue.

2. diversion of time/resources of a small company away from further research/development.

We all know that Taiko has groundbreaking innovations in the works, but it takes a massive amount of time and effort to bring these about. I hate to see the anodizing hassle slowing their progress.

Maybe just think of Black as being a much darker version of Silver?

Just my 2 cents, etc.

 

[cat6man]

We all know that Taiko has groundbreaking innovations in the works, but it takes a massive amount of time and effort to bring these about. I hate to see the anodizing hassle slowing their progress.

+1
if this block scheduling of black/silver speeds things up, please please!

anything that speeds up
1. XDMS going into beta phase
2. enhancements (previously hinted at with announcement delayed) to the Extreme
3. new higher end DAC for Olympus (and Extreme?)
4. BPS functionality to new use cases (Extreme?, other?)

@emile--any chance enhancements targeted to the Extreme might happen this year? 1Q25?

 

[Tuckia]

As I look on from afar at this unfortunate anodizing adventure, I’m left thinking “if only Taiko could have foreseen the difficulties…”

If so, they might have decided to offer it only in (beautiful) Black.

And, if so, (as Emile has said here) all the Olympus orders would already be shipped!

I understand that the Silver is obviously preferred by many, but I can’t help but (respectfully) wonder: “Is the chassis color really worth the consequences?”

The consequences being:

1. presumably a far longer wait for all those in the queue.

2. diversion of time/resources of a small company away from further research/development.

We all know that Taiko has groundbreaking innovations in the works, but it takes a massive amount of time and effort to bring these about. I hate to see the anodizing hassle slowing their progress.

Maybe just think of Black as being a much darker version of Silver?

Just my 2 cents, etc.

Dark silver. Nice.
Likewise the color palette could be expanded to - charcoal, onyx, obsidian, carbon, and burnt Wadax.

 

[cat6man]

Dark silver. Nice.
Likewise the color palette could be expanded to - charcoal, onyx, obsidian, carbon, and burnt Wadax.

Maybe after current orders are filled, increase price for silver?

 

[RUIN*ish]

Does anyone use Starlink as a dedicated isp for their kit?

 

[Taiko Audio]

Emile could you post a good quality picture of the Olympus in black?

 

[aLLeARS]

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Black looks SWEET with the copper!

 

[theaudiogeek]

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That copper on BLACK is simply sweet!

 

[theaudiogeek]

Hi Emile.. how can I get my internal order number? I placed an order via the dealer - thank you

 

[dminches]

If you email support they will have it. I also got an email from Taiko with the specifics of my order. I also bought through a dealer. The email subject was “Taiko Olympus Order Specification”