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    QSA LANEDRI Series

    I would agree with Willgolf: ask Anas and stretch, if you can, to Infinity on both speaker cables and/or the power cord from the wall to your power conditioner. I started with three Gamma Revelation power cords and Gamma Infinity speaker cables. The single biggest impact was provided by the...
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    QSA LANEDRI Series

    I have now played music for about 300 hours on a pair of Ultimatum Infinity speaker cables. Prior to that, Anas told me they had, at most, five days of low wattage burn-in. These cables are replacing a pair of Gamma Infinity speaker cables. First, a little background on my system. For years...
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    Introducing Olympus & Olympus I/O - A new perspective on modern music playback

    I'm one of those Chord DAVE/PGGB users and I will be ordering an Olympus XDMI so you can bet that my 16fs PGGB files will be getting a workout with XDMI and XDMS/NMS. And of course I will be comparing them to non-PGGB files. I haven't actually asked Taiko to install XDMS yet but that will soon...
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    Introducing Olympus & Olympus I/O - A new perspective on modern music playback

    I would like to note that Emile responded to my question in less than 10 minutes while working late on a Saturday night in Holland.
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    Introducing Olympus & Olympus I/O - A new perspective on modern music playback

    Emile, I really appreciate your availability, patience, and thoughtfulness when faced with the barrage of questions here. Of course you knew that was coming. I have what I think is a simple question. Early on in the development of TACDA you said you had chosen a Rohm DAC chip for this project...
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    Introducing Olympus & Olympus I/O - A new perspective on modern music playback

    Wow, I was not expecting changes and offerings of this magnitude. For those of us with more modest ambitions, do you expect to release something like TACDA as initially described months ago: a card with RCA analogue outputs that can be installed by the user of the Extreme? In other words, a DAC...
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    Taiko Audio SGM Extreme : the Crème de la Crème

    Got the update as I was sleeping last night -- thank you Emile and Taiko! Roon sounds great and I don't even have the Switch and NIC, which Emile says will extract more goodness out of the OS update. I probably speak for some percentage of Extreme owners when I say that the new product I am...
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    QSA LANEDRI Series

    Well said, @jeremya!
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    QSA LANEDRI Series

    This is the next chapter in my ongoing adventures with QSA-L DC extension cables. You might want to review my posts #462 and #506 in this thread to see what I said about my initial experience with a single DC extension cable in my two systems. What’s new this time around is the fact that I now...
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    QSA LANEDRI Series

    Hi @ssfas. The Rubinstein album I listened to is the RCA Living Stereo Chopin Ballades and Scherzos. Specifically, the SACD remaster. It was ripped to a DSF DSD64 file and played through the dCS Mosaic app using Filter 5 on my Bartok. I have to say that this 1959 album sounds pretty damn good...
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    QSA LANEDRI Series

    This is Chapter 2 of my ongoing adventures with the QSA Lanedri DC extension cable. Note that QSA-L is no longer selling the extension cable, which generally requires another DC cable in the chain and often requires adapters. Rather, you can now buy a DC cable with custom terminations that work...
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    QSA LANEDRI Series

    There are some really counterintuitive things about the QSA products. I agree that it is puzzling -- very puzzling! -- that the positive impact of the QSA DC cable is greater on the router than the closer-to-the-source EtherRegen. And I haven't heard any rational explanation for that, but it is...
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    QSA LANEDRI Series

    Yes, Taiko is talking about the best connection into its Switch, and it recommends ethernet over fiber. But you may be right that noise could be further reduced by, for example, implementing your suggestion of router > fiber > OM > good ethernet cable > Taiko Switch. Indeed, I have a second...
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    QSA LANEDRI Series

    Thank you for your comments, @kennyb123 and @jeremya. It really was a fun afternoon and educational. Maybe the track that wowed me the most was North Dakota from Lyle Lovett's 1992 Joshua Judges Ruth album. That tune has been a favorite and a test track for over a decade. With all of the QSA...
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    QSA LANEDRI Series

    Hi @dbastin -- I appreciate your thoughts. I've thought about running fiber rather than ethernet for my very long (60-80 feet) run through the house. In fact, I have a system at another house with another long run where I do use fiber and convert it at each end with a Sonore Optical Module...
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