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

[Taiko Audio]

Thank you Emile !
That's all I wanted to know.
I believe most of us will celebrate now as this will be most likely an additional very significant SQ improvement.
Sometimes a short delay in order is a gigantic blessing in the end.
Well worth waiting.

This doesn’t affect delivery. It has been this way for quite some time, we have basically had 2 Olympus server designs, the version which is shipping won in the end, and is the only one we’ll supply. But I’ll dig into it later, driving back home now!

 

[oldmustang]

This doesn’t affect delivery. It has been this way for quite some time, we have basically had 2 Olympus server designs, the version which is shipping won in the end. But I’ll dig into it later, driving back home now!

Safe travels, Emile. Thank you for sharing some of your show experience with those of us who couldn't attend.

Steve Z

 

[MusicFellow]

Been there today. Sound was magnificent!! Had a lovely chat with Edward and Bob. … and of course missed out on Emile the phantom of the opera for the third straight year! Must have been busy tweaking that battery power supply.

 

[Steve Williams]

Been there today. Sound was magnificent!! Had a lovely chat with Edward and Bob. … and of course missed out on Emile the phantom of the opera for the third straight year! Must have been busy tweaking that battery power supply.

or beer and schnitzel

 

[marty]

Yeah still makes a difference, it doesn’t really make or break the performance to the degree it can do with the Extreme, but it still has a very significant impact on tonality.

I just don’t have an explanation for it, wiring matters, and imho it’s most pronounced in powercords.

We actually had a somewhat overly hot top end on Thursday with a silver powercord, changed it to a tinned copper powercord which created a totally different balance. With the silver powercord Daniele changed the tweeter crossovers to the minus setting, with the tinned copper powercord he changed it to the plus setting.

I’ve almost accepted this may be unsolvable.

Emile, I know you changed the PC as we discussed at the show, but do you recall if the terminations on the cords were different as well? For example, did the silver wire PC use silver connectors whereas the copper sore PC used copper or brass terminations?

 

[fbhifi]

Not sure exactly where I’m at on the delivery list, but am most anxious to get my Olympus. In the mean time, I’m curious to know hot hot it runs compared to the Extreme. Hoping to place it on an interior shelf that is 10” high.

 

[Taiko Audio]

Emile, I know you changed the PC as we discussed at the show, but do you recall if the terminations on the cords were different as well? For example, did the silver wire PC use silver connectors whereas the copper sore PC used copper or brass terminations?

They both looked like Rhodium to me.

 

[Taiko Audio]

Not sure exactly where I’m at on the delivery list, but am most anxious to get my Olympus. In the mean time, I’m curious to know hot hot it runs compared to the Extreme. Hoping to place it on an interior shelf that is 10” high.

The highest internal temperature we measured was 45 Celcius in a very hot room. That would be around 30 externally.

 

[Taiko Audio]

Been there today. Sound was magnificent!! Had a lovely chat with Edward and Bob. … and of course missed out on Emile the phantom of the opera for the third straight year! Must have been busy tweaking that battery power supply.

Oh no! Retry next year?

 

[fbhifi]

The highest internal temperature we measured was 45 Celcius in a very hot room. That would be around 30 externally.

How would you say that compares to the Extreme?

 

[Taiko Audio]

How would you say that compares to the Extreme?

About the same.

 

[fbhifi]

Thanks.

 

[MusicFellow]

Oh no! Retry next year?

Haha, for sure! I‘ll track you down at that Schnitzel place like Steve suggested!

 

[RUIN*ish]

Apple and Android bms app
Is there a date when these will be available?

 

[dminches]

All systems go for production once the team recovers from Munich?

I am worried that on the ride back you thought of something new!!!!

 

[Kris]

I am curious how you were able to get the Olympus supply with BPS only.
There was no space for 4th battery Pack.
But who knows. Three are things that only Emile and his team can create, so 4th bps hidden somwere?

The only other thing that came to my mind is that the 3rd BPS being responsible for powering internal storage could be used for powering Motherboard and processor as the streaming is as good or better than internal storage. But here it would require a lot of watts so quite quick Discharge in comparison to other 2 other BPSes.

Also not sure if that scenario is the same for us ordering Olympus + Olympus IO as here there might be some other alternatives in powering order for Olympus.
For example the 2 pciex XDMI extension cards could be powered together from one bps and that can free the other bps for MOBO and Processor.

But let's wait for Emile to elaborate how he came up with that idea and how he executed it ?
Also how this influenced the overall SQ benefits ?

 

[Taiko Audio]

Apple and Android bms app
Is there a date when these will be available?

Those should appear sometime soon.

 

[Taiko Audio]

All systems go for production once the team recovers from Munich?

I am worried that on the ride back you thought of something new!!!!

Haha, nahh, they had a good stress test in Munich, good to go!

 

[RUIN*ish]

Those should appear sometime soon.

Thank you

 

[VPN]

Dear Taiko team,
When do you expect to publish the addicional cost for each size of internal hardrive (above 4Tb) for the Olympus?