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

    Hi Emile I am also interested in adding an Olymbus I/O XDMI to my DIY server. My basic use case is to position it as a high quality DAC connected through the XDMI interface. A few questions here: 1) Why the support is only limited to Xeon datacentre and AMD Epyc gen3 or gen4 CPUs but not the...
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    Introducing Olympus & Olympus I/O - A new perspective on modern music playback

    May I ask is Olympus a dual CPU or single CPU server? What CPU to be used? The motherboard is custom-made or off-the-shelf? Thank you.
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    Taiko Audio SGM Extreme : the Crème de la Crème

    Thanks for the great explanation. Just curious of what hardware/software you used to extract the WAV files to the Extreme local storage. Would that be some professional CD ripper like the Ediscreation Ultra Silent Ripper? Do you see differences of extracting the WAV files through the USB...
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    Taiko Audio SGM Extreme : the Crème de la Crème

    I bought from Taobao. There is a seller on Aliexpress providing some info. The one I showed was 4 sockets. 6 and 8 sockets are also available: https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005004494967673.html As usual, Aliexpress sellers mark up a lot. Taobao would be a cheaper place to go...
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    Taiko Audio SGM Extreme : the Crème de la Crème

    I recently bought a similar one from a shop in China. Also made by big copper block and milled by CNC, a small unit weights over 11 kg. Costs about USD600.
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    Taiko Audio SGM Extreme : the Crème de la Crème

    HDPlex has a good quality riser cable if this is the way you want to pursue: https://hdplex.com/hdplex-silicon-pciex16-3-0-flexible-riser.html
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    Taiko Audio SGM Extreme : the Crème de la Crème

    It's also interesting to read Rohm's white paper on the their DAC chip: https://fscdn.rohm.com/en/products/databook/white_paper/ic/audio-video/music-ic_bd34301ekv_wp-e.pdf
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    Taiko Audio SGM Extreme : the Crème de la Crème

    It's really excited to know that the TACDA PCIe card will be available for non-Extreme owners. Any chance that the XDMS player software will be included as a bundle? It would be perfect as XDMS can make the full use of all unique features of the TACDA and the features of the BD34301EKV DAC chip...

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