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

    Quick shout out to Ed and Taiko team! NSM is absolutely unbelievable. I often don’t know what to expect anymore with stepping into lower noise stratospheres, but somehow the misconception that I have is to expect incremental changes, a little bit more of this or of that. holy moly, I could...
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    Introducing Olympus & Olympus I/O - A new perspective on modern music playback

    Another quick cable question - will the Olympus need a C15 or C19 termination?
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    Introducing Olympus & Olympus I/O - A new perspective on modern music playback

    .. going back to chocolate, don’t get me started on Hershey … CLEARLY our tastes don’t align on everything :-)
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    Introducing Olympus & Olympus I/O - A new perspective on modern music playback

    If you mean live performance, that’s the entire point, it is not an audio reproduction. Go figure, it seems the brain takes pleasure in being tricked into believing something is real when it isn’t. According to the little I read, not an expert! I personally enjoy both live and recordings, but in...
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    Introducing Olympus & Olympus I/O - A new perspective on modern music playback

    I will add a polarizing, possibly disturbing logical corollary, that follows Emile and Taiko’s team findings. I am being purely rational here: if really the uptick in audio reproduction follows from the chain behind the DAC, and stems from the many signal conversions and electrical routing...
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    Introducing Olympus & Olympus I/O - A new perspective on modern music playback

    Solving the equations, I find 22,400€
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    Introducing Olympus & Olympus I/O - A new perspective on modern music playback

    My understanding was that the XDMI card is already purchased with the Olympus, so upon purchasing the I/O you wouldn’t purchase the card again, simply move it from the Olympus to the I/O. In the Olympus instead you would plug in the connection board to the I/O.
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    Introducing Olympus & Olympus I/O - A new perspective on modern music playback

    One issue I have on my side is the trade in value being lower due to an early purchase of the Extreme (lucky me!), but that adds to a significant investment due to the lower trade-in and unfortunately makes the O out of reasonable reach for me. Adding to that I appreciate the very creative...
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    Introducing Olympus & Olympus I/O - A new perspective on modern music playback

    I placed an order by email.
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    Introducing Olympus & Olympus I/O - A new perspective on modern music playback

    I couldn’t locate the pre-order link just yet, is it already live ?
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    Introducing Olympus & Olympus I/O - A new perspective on modern music playback

    A minor inconsistency, for IO XDMI , extreme users returning USB / Net cards only bring a value of 1600€c whereas for the IO USB it is a return value or 3200€, wondering if a 1600€ got lost in translation? :-) other than that it would be great if there was an option for 6 monthly payments :-)
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    Introducing Olympus & Olympus I/O - A new perspective on modern music playback

    In the percentage ranking published earlier, I did note the mention or the XDMI interface but I understood that it may have applied to a DAC (Total DAC with AES/EBU IIRC). What would be the comparison for XDMI analog output between O vs O-IO ?
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    Introducing Olympus & Olympus I/O - A new perspective on modern music playback

    You can eat! Rumor has it that Barilla has a winter menu :-)
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    Introducing Olympus & Olympus I/O - A new perspective on modern music playback

    In terms of pricing, without giving out any numbers just yet, Olympus IO < 3/4 Olympus < 2 * Extreme ?
  15. QuantumWave

    Taiko Audio XDMS - Extreme Direct Music Server Software

    A quick question for XDMS-NSM: is the remote exclusively Tablet (iOs/Android), or is NSM also currently (or in future) compatible via MacOs ?
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