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

    Are 800G DAC cables with QSFP-DD terminations good to go? https://edgeoptic.com/qsfp-dd-vs-qsfp28-qsfp56-what-are-the-differences/ If so, do you think that 3M 9V8 Series might be a good candidate for QSA treatment? https://www.mouser.com/new/3m/3m-osfp-9y8-cable-assemblies/ Other than...
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    QSA LANEDRI Series

    Now that's quite interesting, it sounded like the exact opposite of what's being said here IMHO https://www.whatsbestforum.com/threads/qsa-lanedri-series.36078/page-18#post-874208 Though the only way to find out would be sending both 22AWG and 18AWG flavors to Hong Kong, then we'll see if the...
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    QSA LANEDRI Series

    You're the OP of this "War and Peace" forum thread and I posted this just about 3 years ago, maybe it wouldn't hurt to give them a shot since the parts wouldn't cost that much at all...
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    QSA - Lanedri and the Audiophile Version of the Philosophers’ Stone

    First of all, not just anything from Belden would do the trick or else they didn't have to pick BJC in the first place https://headfonics.com/the-cook-of-cables-peter-breaking-bradstock-speaks/ https://headfonics.com/the-cook-of-cables-peter-breaking-bradstock-speaks/2/...
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    QSA - Lanedri and the Audiophile Version of the Philosophers’ Stone

    FYI - Oyaide did something back in 2014 and that's able to reach 102.3% IACS with something similar to the brand of Richard Branson http://oyaide.de/102SSC/102SSC_Press_Release_Information_ENG.pdf https://positive-feedback.com/Issue78/oyaide_cables.htm OTOH, the treatment process of QSA...
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    QSA LANEDRI Series

    Were any non-audiophile items mentioned above (i.e. nVidia TV Shield Pro / Ubiquiti router / modem) ever sent to QSA for applying a specific level of treatment process? What if we're simply connecting two computers directly (i.e. no routers / switches in between) with Horn Silver LAN Jitter...
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    QSA LANEDRI Series

    Please let me ask many (dumb) questions since I'm still trying to understand what could be actually done to design a (badass?) system that's supposed to maximize the potential of whatever QSA is truly capable of. First of all, @nenon already explained what's happening behind the scenes...
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    Taiko Audio SGM Extreme : the Crème de la Crème

    It finally happened, though we would have to wait until the LTSC version of Windows 11 is ready to go and then hopefully another OS upgrade will be available at some point https://www.macrumors.com/2023/01/11/apple-music-tv-previews-microsoft-store/ https://forums.macrumors.com/posts/31869263
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    Taiko Audio SGM Extreme : the Crème de la Crème

    I guess that one of the Extreme owners will get that opportunity at some point, we'll see what Angel and Javier Guadalajara are able to accomplish https://www.whatsbestforum.com/threads/wadax-reference-server.31859/page-3#post-768494 Granted their matching flagship DAC model is "only" good...
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    Denafrips product owners please fall in

    FYI - we've got quite a few fans of AudioQuest 48Gbps HDMI cables here in Hong Kong while there's this 4 way shootout among AQ Diamond / Monster M3000 / WW Platinum Starlight 7 / AQ Dragon 48 https://post76.hk/thread-324574-1-1.html https://post76.hk/thread-327932-1-1.html...
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    Taiko Audio SGM Extreme : the Crème de la Crème

    Well, maybe we could also put a secondary Extreme into good use? First of all, we don't wanna mess with the OS of primary Extreme too much but there will be so many things we could accomplish with a secondary unit. For instance, some apps are only good for Android while Windows version of the...
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    Taiko Audio SGM Extreme : the Crème de la Crème

    How to set up a Windows virtual router to create a VPN-enabled wifi hotspot https://www.comparitech.com/blog/vpn-privacy/how-to-set-up-a-vpn-enabled-wifi-hotspot-with-a-windows-virtual-router/ VPN part is optional. How To Use Your PC Computer Or Laptop As A Wireless Router...
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    Taiko Audio SGM Extreme : the Crème de la Crème

    Windows 10 Enterprise LTSC 2021 evaluation https://software-download.microsoft.com/download/pr/19044.1288.211006-0501.21h2_release_svc_refresh_CLIENT_LTSC_EVAL_x64FRE_en-us.iso Just an FYI
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    M12 Gold Switch

    https://zhongce.sina.com.cn/article/view/110425/ https://www.lr-link.com/products/lres4006mt-poe.html http://www.visionchinashow.net/txw_ensz/exhibit/product_body.aspx?zs=939&id=1185 About $270 (1,680 RMB) here https://detail.tmall.com/item.htm?id=656084349943 Now we could have M12 X-coded...
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    Taiko Audio SGM Extreme : the Crème de la Crème

    If we're having THAT kinda budget, then (the upcoming) Wadax Atlantis Reference Transport should be able to beat just about any kinda 4K UHD Blu-ray players out there. FYI - here's what the OP of this thread mentioned last year...
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    Taiko Audio SGM Extreme : the Crème de la Crème

    First of all, we're aware that Extreme should be a server with low latency. However, most likely the biggest hurdle should be getting both video and audio to synchronize (consistently, even if e.g. we're skipping from one chapter of Blu-ray discs to another) if we're actually going through such...
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    Taiko Audio SGM Extreme : the Crème de la Crème

    FYI - Windows Subsystem for Android (WSA) is available on Windows 11 https://audiophilestyle.com/forums/topic/64249-windows-subsystem-for-android-wsa-on-windows-11/ Sideloading APK files should be OK as shown above, therefore it's just a matter of figuring out if WSA were able to work with...
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    I've finally made up my mind about FLAC vs uncompressed...sigh. Hard drive makers rejoice.

    FYI - here's the converter and the original discussions seemed to be kinda nasty or something https://www.audio-transcoder.com https://audiophilestyle.com/forums/topic/60916-best-flac-converter-software/page/3/?tab=comments#comment-1089215 Lots of fun to go through the entire thread over there.
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    Taiko Audio SGM Extreme : the Crème de la Crème

    Intel® oneAPI Threading Building Blocks https://software.intel.com/content/www/us/en/develop/tools/oneapi/components/onetbb.html Basically PGGB-RT should require the following file Did anyone compare different versions of tbb12.dll and could there be any differences (in terms of SQ or...
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    I've finally made up my mind about FLAC vs uncompressed...sigh. Hard drive makers rejoice.

    Its name might seem to be NSFW but the ratings are pretty good http://www.markvapps.com/tagstripper https://apps.apple.com/us/app/tag-stripper/id432262744
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    I've finally made up my mind about FLAC vs uncompressed...sigh. Hard drive makers rejoice.

    https://www.audioshark.org/computer-digital-audio-11/any-sound-quality-difference-between-flac-wav-15491-post-255146.html#post255146 https://forum.audiogon.com/discussions/absolute-top-tier-dac-for-standard-res-redbook-cd/post?postid=1742865#1742865...
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    Good mid-price audiophile switches

    An interesting OCXO option for 1,200 bucks and it's based on Buffalo BS-GS2016 https://www.ptt.cc/bbs/Audiophile/M.1627311088.A.8BD.html
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    I've finally made up my mind about FLAC vs uncompressed...sigh. Hard drive makers rejoice.

    FYI - there's something similar here as well http://jplay.eu/forum/index.php?/topic/3705-removing-file-properties-before-playback/ Moral of the story? Maybe it's more about jumping through (very close to) zero hoop whenever possible so that the entire system wouldn't be distracted by any...
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    I've finally made up my mind about FLAC vs uncompressed...sigh. Hard drive makers rejoice.

    IMHO our findings on this thread should be no surprise at all after reading these links https://github.com/xiph/flac/issues/156#issuecomment-650583606 https://soundcheck-audio.blogspot.com/p/the-engine.html There's no way to tell what compiler version was used and what kinda compiler options...
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    Taiko Audio SGM Extreme : the Crème de la Crème

    IMHO it's such a mess and a half, otherwise I wouldn't have to mess with DLNA or anything that could have to go up to 192kHz https://darko.audio/2021/06/apple-musics-hi-res-streaming-is-a-bit-of-a-mess/...
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    Taiko Audio SGM Extreme : the Crème de la Crème

    I've been wondering how they could manage to pull this off with Apple Music since December 2019 https://www.radius.co.jp/news/2019-12-20?neplayer?apple-music??????????????/ Since WSA (Windows Subsystem for Android) ain't quite available in latest preview release of Windows 11 yet, the best...
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    New Wadax Atlantis Reference Dac

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    Taiko Audio SGM Extreme : the Crème de la Crème

    Yeah, that's the fun part about some differences between ASIO driver and USB Audio Class 2.0 when we don't always know about to expect. For instance, ASIO driver for the Amanero USB interface inside Chord DAVE etc. would accept Native DSD up to DSD512 but UAC2 under Linux could only handle...
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    Taiko Audio SGM Extreme : the Crème de la Crème

    Some DACs with XMOS XU208 could accept 32FS while some PGGB users were comparing the differences between 16FS and 32FS files recently, so far the latter ones seemed to perform quite a bit better when compared to the former ones. However, why don't we go beyond 32FS since the WavPack format...
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    Taiko Audio SGM Extreme : the Crème de la Crème

    Wouldn't a NIC / network switch / FMC etc. with RJ-45 connectors be a bottleneck as well? Therefore why don't we opt for those cards from NVIDIA Mellanox / AMD Xilinx Solarflare etc. with ASIC then? https://lenovopress.com/tips0897-mellanox-connectx-3 Latency (Ethernet adapters)...

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