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

    Beautiful!
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    A new AAA record label: Analog Tone Factory

    Already pre-ordered!
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    New source for Master Calibration tapes; ATR Service Inc.

    Calibration tapes are equally important for playback calibration, whether it be via internal electronics or outboard electronics.
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    Taiko Audio XDMS - Extreme Direct Music Server Software

    Sound quality is numero uno but functionality is important too. Things like gapless, scrubbing, and library navigation are valuable to me too.
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    Metaxas Tape Machines Secure U.S. + Canada Distribution

    Victor’s point is that only a minute percent of albums are available on tape, especially if you like jazz and rock.
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    Introducing Olympus & Olympus I/O - A new perspective on modern music playback

    I tried to do some research to understand if flac and wav order the bits differently. I couldn’t find anything useful.
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    Introducing Olympus & Olympus I/O - A new perspective on modern music playback

    I am not so sure that the sound quality of XdMS on the Extreme is superior to Roon.
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    Introducing Olympus & Olympus I/O - A new perspective on modern music playback

    Does that mean we just need to re-encode all our flacs using ffmpeg?
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    Metaxas Tape Machines Secure U.S. + Canada Distribution

    Well, it is both. There are TONS of albums not available commercially. There is a lot of great stuff out there but most albums aren’t.
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    Taiko Audio Extreme Router

    My last instructions in the thread are: “The username and password are the same credentials as VNC as well.” Those would be the credentials for the Extreme (or Olympus). People may have changed their username and password from the default.
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    Metaxas Tape Machines Secure U.S. + Canada Distribution

    Having a deck is a small part of this. Acquiring the software is the hard part.
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    Taiko Audio Extreme Router

    Correct
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    Taiko Audio Extreme Router

    Great. Even though you are using the router IP address you are actually logging into the Extreme.
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    Taiko Audio Extreme Router

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

    I am definitely confused (but open-minded) by the notion that different audio conversion software results in wav files that sound different. It completely contradicts my notion of what these encoding software packages do. Why aren't they all behaving like winzip? Every time I unzip a file I get...
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