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

[2ndLiner]

While we are waiting for the elevator to reach the top floor, here is some nice elevator music. Actually a video of the anodizing process as posted by one of our customers' facilities, about 5 miles away from us.
Linetec Anodizing

Large scale architectural, but it's the same process.

Wow, thanks for the video, Greg!

 

[Tuckia]

Wow, thanks for the video, Greg!

You are welcome Michael. Too bad this facility is in NA, not NL. They could process a year’s worth of Taiko product pronto.

 

[RUIN*ish]

Ok... I know we're enjoying our drinks with antisipation of the entree coming next...

Dessert:
A dedicated XDMI analog dac board.
(No daughter board)
The Taiko ZEUS XDMI Analog dac?

You can keep the deconstructed keylime pie off the menu..

 

[nonesup]

And exactly the advantage of not having a daughterboard is?

 

[RUIN*ish]

And exactly the advantage of not having a daughterboard is?

I'll leave that to the engineers to design and optimize...
From a lay point of view, fewer contact points and more room to grow.

 

[nonesup]

For my part, I don't mind having a daughter card when designing the balanced DAC card, especially if as Emile said "Since we designed this card we will take the opportunity to add some improvements"

 

[nonesup]

Furthermore, since of the €15,000 that the XDMI card costs, the price of the daughter card is proportionally very small, one would have to be willing to spend another €15,000 on that “compact” DAC card, I think it is a bad deal, in addition to breaking the final XDMI design philosophy and returning to the initial idea that was finally rejected by Taiko.

 

[RUIN*ish]

For my part, I don't mind having a daughter card when designing the balanced DAC card, especially if as Emile said "Since we designed this card we will take the opportunity to add some improvements"

I don't mind either..

 

[RUIN*ish]

Furthermore, since of the €15,000 that the XDMI card costs, the price of the daughter card is proportionally very small, one would have to be willing to spend another €15,000 on that “compact” DAC card, I think it is a bad deal, in addition to breaking the final XDMI design philosophy and returning to the initial idea that was finally rejected by Taiko.

To me, it comes down to the same decision in the future...
Do I or do I not buy the I/O? Value?
That's up to the buyer.

I'm pretty sure philosophy evolves and ideas change or even new ones come as technologies evolve.

Core values are a different conversation..

 

[Elberoth]

I have a small dedicated room (13'×12'×8') and have spent many hours adjusting speaker position and experimenting with room treatment (both diffusion and absorption). JR of Wally Tools installed the bass array a few years ago and as a result I get defined, musical bass. I believe I have as much sound stage breadth and depth as I could hope for. I can hear the questioning, why the heck is he sharing all this in the Olympus thread?! My question is, if anyone has a room similar in size to mine and you receive your Olympus, what is the effect on the sound stage depth, width, and height? Thanks!

Since I have room similar to yours (14x19"), my #1 concern would be coping with Olympus heat output.

Olympus draws sth like 250-350W from mains and basicly all of it is turned into heat. That is similar heat output to 50W power amp woking in a pure class A.

 

[octaviars]

Olympus draws sth like 250-350W from mains and basicly all of it is turned into heat. That is similar heat output to 50W power amp woking in a pure class A.

From Taiko website.

The Olympus Server's normal power consumption during music playback is 45 watts. The charger's power consumption depends on how the charging behavior is configured. With a very short window to charge the battery packs all at once, this can be up to 150 watts for the Olympus Server and up to 100 watts for the Olympus I/O.

 

[Elberoth]

From Taiko website.

The Olympus Server's normal power consumption during music playback is 45 watts. The charger's power consumption depends on how the charging behavior is configured. With a very short window to charge the battery packs all at once, this can be up to 150 watts for the Olympus Server and up to 100 watts for the Olympus I/O.

OK, I stand corrected on the actual #. The label on the back panel says 270W, but I guess that is a peak power.

Olympus gets very hot nonetheless. In a small room, its heat output will be sth that would need to be considered.

 

[2ndLiner]

Since I have room similar to yours (14x19"), my #1 concern would be coping with Olympus heat output.

Olympus draws sth like 250-350W from mains and basicly all of it is turned into heat. That is similar heat output to 50W power amp woking in a pure class A.

Compared to mine your room sounds palatial, Adam! Currently, I run a tube DAC, pre, and 75 watt mono blocs without air conditioning. Yes, I'm willing to suffer for the art of others So, like the frog being boiled 1 degree at a time perhaps the added heat of the Olympus won't be so bad. Also, living in New Orleans in the 90's helped to reset my heat endurance baseline...

 

[nenon]

FWIW the Olympus runs cooler than the Extreme while playing music. It only gets warm if you run more CPU-intensive jobs like scanning a big library in Roon.

 

[nenon]

Olympus gets very hot nonetheless.

After playing 24 hours non-stop:

 

[LampiNA]

My silver Olympus #7 is packed and was supposed to be picked up today, but I just asked Christoph to postpone it one week as I'm traveling towards the end of next week and don't want to risk missing it. My other unit #8 for our other demo system should be shipping to my partner @DSG Rob on Monday.

 

[seatrope]

My silver Olympus #7 is packed and was supposed to be picked up today, but I just asked Christoph to postpone it one week as I'm traveling towards the end of next week and don't want to risk missing it. My other unit #8 for our other demo system should be shipping to my partner @DSG Rob on Monday.

Send it to me, I’ll “hold on to it” for you

 

[Tuckia]

After playing 24 hours non-stop:
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That's 90.14 degrees F for those who are Celsius impaired.

This isn't nearly warm enough for my listening room which is frigid year round.

 

[John T]

That's 90.14 degrees F for those who are Celsius impaired.

This isn't nearly warm enough for my listening room which is frigid year round.

You need a Mephisto Greg, keep you nice and cozy...

 

[tsaett]

Friday is shipping day - happy to report the first silver ones have left the building. Fred stopped us just in time, his units are now sitting lonesome on their pallet, waiting for him to come back - anyone interested in burning them in meanwhile?

We are expecting to ship the O + I/O bundles next week (just waiting for the epoxy to dry and an individual sound quality check), afterwards we have another black batch (8 pieces) outgoing, followed by another silver one (10 pieces), followed by another silver one (10 pieces).

Next week we have our photo shooting appointment for the whole product range - we are very much looking forward to present our new Olympus product page, that is just waiting for visual input. We are working with our trusted local photographer, that helped us getting the Extreme in the right light.

We also want to show our new Olympus info content, that can be found in the downloads section:

Taiko Audio Downloads – Taiko Audio

taikoaudio.com

- Taiko Olympus manual
- Taiko BMS App manual
- Music migration guide (MacOS & Windows)

If you find any unclear points or left out details that you would expect, please let us know - we tried to be as thorough as possible.