Introducing Olympus & Olympus I/O - A new perspective on modern music playback
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On the right side, full shielded/covered.
For supplying the GaN modules for battery charging.
Do you mean this “ The Olympus I/O contains 2 battery power supplies and a custom power supply for charging the
battery cells. The first battery section powers the Network Card, and the second section powers the
XDMI Output. The batteries are configured to charge in cycles, like a traditional battery. They hold a”
That refers to the I/O, not the main unit. Is there a reference to the main unit LPS which I am missing?
battery cells. The first battery section powers the Network Card, and the second section powers the
XDMI Output. The batteries are configured to charge in cycles, like a traditional battery. They hold a”
That refers to the I/O, not the main unit. Is there a reference to the main unit LPS which I am missing?
Folks I think my ambition exceeded reality for this shortened window between Thanksgiving and Christmas (3 weeks!!).
I’m going to postpone this listening session to some time early next year, hopefully with some additional kit that folks can hear as well
Apologies but things are crazy busy this year!
I have two of these I’m not using if anyone wants to buy.Hi QuantumWave,
Let me share with members my experience.
I tried grounding of the Olympus at Volent Audio earlier this month.
Volent doesn't carry any groundbox brands but there was an discontinued and idling Taiko small electric groundbox Setchi D3 in the showroom so I plugged it into the USB socket of Olympus.
The improvement was instantaneous and significant, without any pitfalls. Noise floor further decreased and the layering of the soundstage & resolution of bass was surprises.
According to Ben Lau of Volent Audio, the two grounding posts on the back of Olympus are connected to chassis & the internal LPS only. The circuit board is somewhat "floated".
(Emile please correct us if we are wrong. )
I have got ready my two idling Setchis while waiting for the delivery of my Olympus & Olympus I/O.
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Yes the “Charger power supply” is a Linear power supply.
Just wondering what the normal temperature range for System and XDMI batteries is...?
You can find information on the operating temperature on page 47 of the manual.
No temperature range is suggested, but rather a maximum operating ambient temperature (32°C).
I assume that at 0°C or even below there won't be a problem. On the contrary
Cheers,
Thomas
As charging/discharging has a negligible effect on the temperature of the batteries we use, they will be at the same temperature as the chassis, between roughly +12 and +20 Celsius over environment depending on usage, like redbook or dsd512 playback, surrounding airspace etc. The recommended working range for full capacity is between -30 deg.C to 60 deg.C, however the system motherboard will start throttling and shut down before you can reach that temperature, it will top out at 52-55.
Thanks Tom, but a different question was asked - the BMS app provides a temperature readout for each battery unit and I was asking about the normal range.You can find information on the operating temperature on page 47 of the manual.
No temperature range is suggested, but rather a maximum operating ambient temperature (32°C).
I assume that at 0°C or even below there won't be a problem. On the contrary
Cheers,
Thomas
EDIT - that’s the answer I was looking for - thanks Emile.
I would expect no, but I did not actually compare burn in methodologies for efficiency/effect.
Same here. For three days the O has been playing Qobuz with no stoppage, where it had been stopping intermittently over the previous few weeks.
Hi QuantumWave,
Let me share with members my experience.
I tried grounding of the Olympus at Volent Audio earlier this month.
Volent doesn't carry any groundbox brands but there was an discontinued and idling Taiko small electric groundbox Setchi D3 in the showroom so I plugged it into the USB socket of Olympus.
The improvement was instantaneous and significant, without any pitfalls. Noise floor further decreased and the layering of the soundstage & resolution of bass was surprises.
According to Ben Lau of Volent Audio, the two grounding posts on the back of Olympus are connected to chassis & the internal LPS only. The circuit board is somewhat "floated".
(Emile please correct us if we are wrong. )
I have got ready my two idling Setchis while waiting for the delivery of my Olympus & Olympus I/O.
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Hi @CKKeung
I guess I should add that by grounding I'm actually referring to creating an additional path to "ground" and/or (additional) path(s) between 2 or more devices, as is most common amongst ground "tweaks". The Setchi, as you know of course, is a battery powered floating device/tweak, it does not create additional paths to ground and/or between devices. Specifically these additional "ground" / conductor paths are what I would consider to be negative when applied to the Olympus, at least in my own experiences thus far.
Christiaan Punter
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I'm not sure if your quick question was answered, but in case it was not, the Olympus serial number can be found around the back on a small sticker underneath the PCI ports section on the right.I am interested in the resolution of this too, as in my first listening session with my Olympus (hooray!) last night, Roon would suddenly stop in mid-track for no apparent reason. I just had to hit play to continue. It happened several times in just an hour of listening.
With the same build (iPad 1480, server 1483), I had no such issue on the Extreme.
Quick question: where is the Olympus serial number? I think it was in the name of the Roon server when it first came up, but then it got overwritten when I restored from Roon backup.
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