If there's a 1 or 2% improvement not having memory in the O, could a future version of the I/O be a nas?if it arrives at year end we could call it XMAS
Introducing Olympus & Olympus I/O - A new perspective on modern music playback
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If your Seagate was formatted as NTFS file system, the router USB port doesn’t recognise it, yet.
The current I/O can already do that, but that’s quite a hefty price-tag for just 1-2%.
Is it adviced to remove USB cardYou could remove the USB card and use the freed up slot for 4 more drives
or / and
USB functionality for the ultimate performance with Olympus?
Getting rid of USB (or other traditional digital connection) is the primary reason that I wanted to move to Olympus. I have a 15-year-old Pioneer Elite DVD player (flagship then) modded with proprietary i2s out (master clock, bit clock, L/R or word clock and data) with the DAC similarly modded (for watching my big library of opera and classical music live concert video discs) - in a purist way, "direct coupling" (the 4 i2s signals gathered directly on the circuit board of the DVD and sent directly to the 4 RCA jacks, bypassing all transformers, capacitors etc. in the signal paths); the DVD's oscillator clock was also upgraded. The ribbon cables (a set of 4, each 1.0M long) used are 200 microinch (0.005mm) ribbons insulated only in very thin polymer sleeves (to reduce skin and dielectric effects) with individualized values for each cable (determined with a test box, with 6 "networks" which I thought are resistors arrayed in a proprietary algorism array for each cable) to maximize impedance between DVD transport and DAC for that specific i2s signal. I did not want to post before (to avoid being pilloried): the modded DVD-DAC connection via the i2s ribbons sounds more natural and organic than the Extreme-DAC connection via USB. This is a lowly DVD player with probably switch power supplier against Extreme used with the Switch, yet once I have heard such purer sound from the i2s connection, I cannot unhear it. The USB sound is now heard as being obviously (more) veiled and I cannot wait to be rid of it. This is not to downplay the sheer achievements of Extreme, but that purist DVD mod did give me a premonition of what to come with Olympus, which should be much more thorough going in its "purist" approach than the modest DVD mod (limited to i2s out). I believe what Emile estimated: easily 2x better than Extreme. The sound of Olympus should be sui generis and qualitatively different. Eagerly await Olympus' arrival. Thanks.
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He could reformat it to exFAT, assuming that’s what the router recognizes. In marty’s case he is only using it for backup and transfer so he should be connecting it to the Extreme and Olympus directly.
I believe the Olympus USB port is built in as part of the motherboard if i remember correctly. So, not removable.
I don't think that is true based on this post by Emile:
Yeah indeed, there’s a point where you just run out of expansion slots. There are 5 in total. Then you have the same “issue” we have with the Extreme that certain devices sound better in certain slots.
The current config we run here is:
Slot 1: combined for graphics and OS drive
Slot 2: network card
Slot 3: XDMI or USB
Slot 4: prefer not to use (heat)
Slot 5: USB or U.3 storage drive
Though that may have changed. See here: he says Olympus server variant USB is not removable.
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I saw that I couldn't understand it.
@Taiko Audio Can you explain USB in the Olympus? Was it once a PCI card and now it is just part of the motherboard? What changed?
No, as long as you don’t use the USB port it doesn’t hurt anything.
Changed to:
Slot 1: OS drive + Music drive
Slot 2: Network card
Slot 3: XDMI
Slot 4: free, but blocked if you are going to use MSB Pro ISL or AES/EBU
Slot 5: free
Slots 4 & 5 can both be needed for future more expansive XDMI options, like for example balanced outputs with volume control
Could you please also provide single-ended output with VC when VC becomes available? I subscribe to the school which thinks SE is intrinsically more musical than balanced for home audio use (balanced is better only for recording studios which need to run very long cables). My system is entirely SE and will never go balanced.
So how this will look in my Olympus
+ Olympus IO ?
Also I was thinking AES is daughter board plugged into XDMI . Now it looks like an independent card in pci express.
Does it imply that I/O adds "just 1-2%" over O for SQ? Or is it still around 9% (estimated months ago)?
Emile,
Will the Olympus Windows OS be installed in the same storage drive as the stored local files will be?
This is very important for me because I select the 3.84 TB one, which is just right for my small library but, also with the OS I might run out of space…
If so, how much space will the OS take?
Maybe I’m not figuring it correctly and they are 2 different drives but in the same slot…, if so how are they mounted?
Thank you.
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No the OS drive and Music storage drive are 2 separate drives.
What we changed is the following:
Previously we had the OS drive in slot 1 and the music drive in slot 5.
We then moved to using an adapter to mount both the OS and the music drive in slot 1.
Result:
1) a ~5% downgrade of mounting the music drive reduced to ~1%
2) Slot 5 is now free
Sometimes something very simple can have considerable effects
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