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    Taiko Audio SGM Extreme : the Crème de la Crème

    There is a famous and great French horn solo in the second movement of Tchaik 5 (says the former French horn player).
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    Klaudio’s Pivoted Linear Tangential Tonearm

    I also had the pleasure of visiting Peter's audio playland about 10 days ago. Truly amazing what Peter has built from scratch. Here are some more photos:
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    Taiko Audio SGM Extreme : the Crème de la Crème

    @Taiko Audio -- It seems like all the attention lately has been on the Switch, NIC, and Router, with additional questions about the BPS. All that is great and I am impressed with how much you have been accomplishing and the positive results you have been achieving. For me, however, and I...
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    Taiko Audio SGM Extreme : the Crème de la Crème

    Thank you! I figured you guys would be on top of it.
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    Taiko Audio SGM Extreme : the Crème de la Crème

    @Taiko Audio - Just received the message "TAS Beta has expired." Can't get TestFlight to renew it without a link in an email or an invitation code. I know this has happened before. I'm hoping that TAS can be renewed since I generally prefer it to Roon. I would shift to XDMS but the large file...
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    QSA LANEDRI Series

    Listening to Vinyl Over the last six years or so, I feel like analog has been my neglected child as I poured money into my digital system and reaped the benefits. A couple years ago I bought a Shunyata Everest and a loom of Shunyata’s power cables (see above) and that definitely helped analog...
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    QSA LANEDRI Series

    I posted earlier in this thread about my first 48 hours with QSA cables in post #89. After that initial experience, I left for a 12 day vacation in the tropics, came back, and continued the burn-in with fresh ears. The QSA cables have now had roughly 300 hours of playing time and I’m ready to...
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    Taiko Audio SGM Extreme : the Crème de la Crème

    Question for @Taiko Audio or @Christiaan Punter: I am a big fan and heavy user of PGGB. I know that the upcoming TACDA (soon to be renamed?) uses a Rohm DAC chip that supports up to 32 bits and 768 sampling frequency. I have been assuming that TACDA will accept up to 32/768 files and play...
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    QSA LANEDRI Series

    I have watched with fascination as positive, one might even say ecstatic, reports trickled in about QSA products over the last year or so. Now that Lanedri is up and running, I took the plunge. It might be useful for others to know what I have heard in the first 48 hours. I plan on doing a much...
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    Taiko Audio SGM Extreme : the Crème de la Crème

    Just the standard wall wart that comes with the drive.
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    Taiko Audio SGM Extreme : the Crème de la Crème

    I have 8 TB of music storage on my Extreme and am just about to run out of space. Like a number of other Extreme users, I have embraced the PGGB "remastering" program and this results in larger files (and, I might add, fantastic sounding music with the right DAC). Eventually, I expect to need 30...
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    Taiko Audio SGM Extreme : the Crème de la Crème

    Emile, you have said that these are basically Taiko-approved products for increasing the storage capacity of your Extreme, correct? As far as I can tell, none of these are available in sizes exceeding 4 TB. At some point in the relatively near future, I will probably want to increase the storage...
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    Taiko Audio SGM Extreme : the Crème de la Crème

    I will second @austinpop's recommendation/wish to have Taiko address the "PGGB issue" he lists as #1 on his bug/feature report. This is really important to us PGGB folks.
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    Taiko Audio SGM Extreme : the Crème de la Crème

    As another Extreme user who plays a lot of PGGB files at 705/768, including quite a few longer tracks (and definitely not limited to classical music), the issue of music stopping abruptly would be a pretty huge concern. I'm sure Taiko is aware of this and already working to remedy the situation.
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    Taiko Audio SGM Extreme : the Crème de la Crème

    The reports on XDMS sonic quality from the two Steves really, really whet the appetite. Congratulations Team Taiko on achieving this most important goal (and with hints that it will only get better). I do have a question about gapless playback. I'm guessing that I speak for a good number of...
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    Taiko Audio SGM Extreme : the Crème de la Crème

    I don't own a Denali but I do own the Shunyata Everest so here is an additional data point for your consideration. As detailed in my post #9840 in this thread, I experimented with the Extreme going direct to the wall (dedicated 10 AWG circuit) vs. into the Extreme. The power cord was a Sablon...
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    Taiko Audio SGM Extreme : the Crème de la Crème

    I have yet to hear of a direct comparison between Everest and TT7. By all accounts, the TT7 is amazing. I own an Everest and it had a transformational effect when inserted. I have also experimented with my integrated amp (Crayon CFA 1.2) and Extreme going direct to wall on a 10AWG dedicated...
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    Taiko Audio SGM Extreme : the Crème de la Crème

    It seems you've arrived at what, at least for now, appears to be the consensus choice among SRC-DX/DAVE users -- USB4 at 32 bits. I covered my own impressions back in post #9767. I don't really hear significant differences in warm vs cool but we all hear differently. Thanks for these impressions.
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    Taiko Audio SGM Extreme : the Crème de la Crème

    Taiko's new OS update, and to a lesser extent, customized USB drivers, have made a profound difference in my system and apparently many others. When something this significant comes along, it can make sense to revisit old assumptions and systems. For example, many have discovered that fiber is...
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    Taiko Audio SGM Extreme : the Crème de la Crème

    Here is another installment in my continuing series of listening impressions using a Chord DAVE/SRC-DX combination with Taiko's new USB drivers for the SRC-DX. When Emile had finished installing the drivers on my Extreme, he sent an email: "Pretty sure it should be USB4 with roon set to...
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    Taiko Audio SGM Extreme : the Crème de la Crème

    Ok, sorry folks, I’m an idiot. I got it to work. Once you click on “Show advanced” and you get “Hide advanced“, you simply need to scroll down. DOH!! Thanks @nonesup and @Levitator.
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    Taiko Audio SGM Extreme : the Crème de la Crème

    Interesting. It has been suggested to me that perhaps Roon is not detecting the potential for these advanced settings in the particular audio device, which in my case is the new Taiko USB driver. But I assume many others here are using the new Taiko USB drivers and are not having problems...
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    Taiko Audio SGM Extreme : the Crème de la Crème

    After some fairly casual listening and comparisons, I am unable to detect very significant differences between Roon and TAS. I would venture to say that Roon is certainly not worse than TAS but maybe Emile's last-minute tweaks to the OS brought TAS a little closer to Roon than it had been just...
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    Taiko Audio SGM Extreme : the Crème de la Crème

    This is the first explanation I've heard that makes sense with regard to why the "no network" option now can sound worse than constantly feeding the Extreme with ethernet. Thanks for sharing that. The new OS update really is a game changer. And I fully agree with 1) the idea that the simple...
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    Taiko Audio SGM Extreme : the Crème de la Crème

    Perhaps the explanation is in @HighEnd's original post #9633: The scientific explanation from Emile: "some routers don’t perform address segmentation (where the packets are only send to the connected devices which should receive them)"
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    Taiko Audio SGM Extreme : the Crème de la Crème

    Nice report! I should have mentioned that all of my listening was done via Roon. Prior to the OS update, most of my serious listening was done with TAS and I used Roon mostly for music discovery. I have yet to listen to TAS since the update (But I will!). And while my network setup is very...
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    Taiko Audio SGM Extreme : the Crème de la Crème

    I am one of those Chord DAVE owners who also bypasses Chord's USB input with an SRC-DX. I also happened to help organize a little rally of Chord/SRC-DX users less than a week ago in asking Emile if he could re-investigate the creation of custom USB drivers for the SRC-DX. The SRC-DX is supplied...
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    Taiko Audio SGM Extreme : the Crème de la Crème

    Thanks for the clarification, Emile. Good to know that the 75% that everyone can get has resulted in such great improvements. And also good to know that there are no guarantees with regard to the ComTrue driver. But we surely appreciate another try by Taiko with new and different knowledge of...
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    Taiko Audio SGM Extreme : the Crème de la Crème

    Hi Emile-- I've already emailed you about this, but I know there are quite a few Extreme customers who are using a Chord DAVE and SRC-DX with the ComTrue USB driver. We would be really grateful if Taiko could customize the ComTrue driver. If you are one of those SRC-DX users who could benefit...
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    Taiko Audio SGM Extreme : the Crème de la Crème

    I am very grateful for the ability to import Roon playlists. Also, while I can't speak for others, I would be happy to just play Roon (and have TAS removed) until you are ready to install XDMS on our machines.

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