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KRAKOW SONIC SOCIETY № 151

TAIKO AUDIO
Olympus Server XDMI + Olympus I/O XDMI

The 151st meeting of the Krakow Sonic Society opens, symbolically, the next stage of its activities. And it does so with a bang, as it starts with a listening to one of the most expensive audio file transports on the market, the TAIKO AUDIO Server XDMI with Olympus I/O XDMI module. We've tested this pair before, but this time the I/O XDMI features a DAC, and Taiko's creator and head, Mr. Emile Bok, is there to tell us about the equipment.

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No. 101 October 2012

No. 101 October 2012

COVERAGE: Krakow Sonic Society: Acoustic Revive RAF-48H - anti-vibration platform | FIM UltraHD CD CD (First 2000 pressings), meeting coverage from Kraków, Poland

Published: 1. October 2012, No. 101 That meeting was supposed to be different. Maybe not totally different but special. The plan of course was to meet and listen to music, have some conversation and friendly discussion over good wine, but this time I also wanted to celebrate the 100th edition of “High Fidelity” magazine. Krakow Sonic Society is in fact its integral part; it is the magazine’s “social emanation” and its “human face.” It arose from the need to investigate certain things in a group of people, to examine audio components which I could obviously test myself, but which sometimes require more than a single opinion; instead of a collective “wow” they require a variety of opinions and different points of view. As I wrote in my editorial to the 100th edition of HF (see HERE), initially our ...

No. 99 August 2012

No. 99 August 2012

COVERAGE: Krakow Sonic Society, meeting #84:
When the analogue tape ruled (Master Tape Sound Lab)

Published: 1. August 2012, No. 99 Future is a strange thing. On one hand it's, at least to some point, predictable, on the other it surprises us a lot. You can try to foresee it by analyzing trends, patterns, relations basing on historical records, but to do it right you need to be creative, you need to think out-of-the-box. Because no matter how probable scenario you create, lots of what really happens is simply beyond our imagination. When reading science-fiction novels written in the 80s of 20th century, you can see that than writers expected us to be exploring the space by now, that we would be traveling at least to the nearest stars. But it did not happen. Human kind focused rather on what's beneath their feet, rather than what's above their heads. On the other hand when reading those novels one has to smile once in a while when reading about sending letters (paper letter in envelope) to space station ...

No. 95 April 2012

No. 95 April 2012

COVERAGE: Krakow Sonic Society, meeting #83:
Holger Fromme and his Avantgarde Acoustic XA Series

This was not a classic meeting of the Krakow Sonic Society. Although we did something like that once or twice before, these couple times versus over eighty meetings in total is not much. This time we did not compare anything, did not have listening sessions, did not plug anything in or out, etc. It was only about getting acquainted with a new, incredibly interesting product, the new, split amplifier Avantgarde Acoustic XA Series. And it was presented by no other than the owner of the company himself, Mr. Holger Fromme. Let me tell you when we did this for the last time – please recall the meeting with Mr. Kazuo Kiuchi, the owner of Combak Corporation, meaning the brands Reimyo, Harmonix, Bravo! and the co-owner of the XRCD patent (Wojciech Pacuła, Krakow Sonic Society, meeting #72: Kazuo Kiuchi (Combak Corporation) in Krakow, „High Fidelity”, ...

No. 94 March 2012

No. 94 March 2012

Krakow Sonic Society, meeting #82:
Paweł Skulimowski and his Franc Audio Accessories

“I founded Franc Audio Accessories brand thinking about the demanding audiophiles who want to improve the sound of their systems. The products are addressed to people valuing modern and uncommon design, putting it on par with the highest demands posed to the hi-end.” This opening paragraph welcomes every visitor to the web page of the Polish company Franc Audio Accessories. Its owner, Mr. Paweł Skulimowski, belongs to the creators (because audio is a combination of engineering and artistry) who try to think about every detail when introducing a product to the market – really each and every detail. I do not want it to sound like an advertisement but I cannot help it –Franc Audio Accessories products are “complete” in the sense that they look brilliant, are ideally made and packaged, and they are backed ...

No. 92 January 2012

No. 92 January 2012

Kracow Sonic Society, meeting #81:
Srajan Ebaen („6moons.com”) and Acoustic Revive RD-3+RIO-5II

WHAT WILL REMAIN AFTER OUR CIVILIZATION? It doesn't happen often, but obviously sometimes it does – by mistake I deleted all photos I took during our meeting with Srajan. For two days I fought with my computer to recover at least some of them and I failed. Damn it! So I called Jarek Waszczyszyn, who in fact invited our guest from Switzerland, but I got nothing from him – he simply did not take any pictures at all. To be perfectly clear – nobody except for me took any photos during this CSS meeting – so there was nothing left after Srajan's departure except for our memories and some notes on piece of paper. Yeah, the piece of paper with a table filled in with all participants notes on what they liked and what they didn't when listening to different versions ...

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