Thanks for this update! OK, so I'm probably looking at Christmas in early June, then.....
Introducing Olympus & Olympus I/O - A new perspective on modern music playback
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There’s going t be a lot of audiophile chubbies trying to be hidden beginning the week of April 22
Wives are going to be very suspicious is not accompanied by furtive glances their way.
early Mother's Day presents.
Christiaan Punter
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Alas, that is currently still TBD. I'm sure Emile will supply more info as soon as we have a clearer window.
Hey honey...look what I got you for mother's day...early Mother's Day presents.
I better get some roses too!
So, do I understand this correctly? The Olympus is shipping soon, but the I/O ship date is still uncertain. What if you have ordered the complete set?
Christiaan Punter
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We are currently investigating and testing the available options and storage sizes. We hope to have an answer to this in about a week.
Olympus Update
We are happy to announce that we have finally settled on a storage option for the Olympus server.
The team in our listening room / laboratory has spent days over days, testing pretty much every possible option out there, the Olympus will ship with a single u.3 drive.
These are available in sizes from 4TB - 60TB and should therefore have enough capacity for even the biggest libraries.
When selecting a storage option, we suggest to "think ahead" with the size, as - for sonic reasons - we strongly recommend to only use one single drive and not extend storage with a second one.
However, do note that in the unprecedented low noise environment of the Olympus, file origin is not really an issue anymore. A cheap network attached storage (in combination with our switch and router) sounds as good as local playback, so does streaming from Tidal / Qobuz.
Another question was raised regarding delivery of the Olympus I/O, since many have ordered the bundle - we can safely say that I/O production will ramp up in parallel to the Olympus, all customers who ordered a bundle will get both units as a set and pre-configured.
We are also finishing our Munich High End display, where Olympus + Olympus I/O will be the source in multiple rooms, of course we hope to see many of you in our own room A4.2 E214.
We are happy to announce that we have finally settled on a storage option for the Olympus server.
The team in our listening room / laboratory has spent days over days, testing pretty much every possible option out there, the Olympus will ship with a single u.3 drive.
These are available in sizes from 4TB - 60TB and should therefore have enough capacity for even the biggest libraries.
When selecting a storage option, we suggest to "think ahead" with the size, as - for sonic reasons - we strongly recommend to only use one single drive and not extend storage with a second one.
However, do note that in the unprecedented low noise environment of the Olympus, file origin is not really an issue anymore. A cheap network attached storage (in combination with our switch and router) sounds as good as local playback, so does streaming from Tidal / Qobuz.
Another question was raised regarding delivery of the Olympus I/O, since many have ordered the bundle - we can safely say that I/O production will ramp up in parallel to the Olympus, all customers who ordered a bundle will get both units as a set and pre-configured.
We are also finishing our Munich High End display, where Olympus + Olympus I/O will be the source in multiple rooms, of course we hope to see many of you in our own room A4.2 E214.
thanks. Would using our current drives from the Extreme be considered a poor decision with respect to sound quality? If not, is there room for 2 hyper m.2 cards in the Olympus?
Is this in addition to the system drive? Or is it all on one drive? What I’m getting at is that it might be more efficient over time to acquire an approved U.3 drive ourselves for those of us who are technologically proficient and swap it in. If this is also the system drive then that would be challenging.
Are you still on Optane for system?
Are you still on Optane for system?
Yes, migrating the Extreme drives to the Olympus is not an option we recommend. It has been thoroughly tested and this particular u.3 option is very audibly better.
Indeed we are still using Optane, which has proven itself to also be the best option in the Olympus. Music drive and OS drive are physically separated.
Our policy has a always been that we are installing storage pretty much at cost, we strongly recommend to go with our tested and approved options.
Can you provide us with the incremental price for each storage size option?
It varies somewhat due to us not taking a margin on these, the 61.44TB drive is the Solidigm D5-P5336 which is around Euro 7.500 here. Upgrading from 4TB to 8TB adds about 400-450. You can also leave out the standard included storage and save a similar amount. We prefer and strongly suggest to use Intel/Solidigm drives exclusively. It’s been quite challenging to get local storage to perform on par, or at least close to, streaming / networked storage as the network card included with the Olympus makes use of all of our most recent improvements, therefor we recommend to not just drop in any brand of either u.2 or u.3 storage drive.
A few more manufacturing photos/movies:
Top cover ventilation holes drilling (there are 6000 in the top cover):
Top cover ventilation holes drilling (there are 6000 in the top cover):
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