High Fidelity

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.

26 kwietnia 2025
KRAKOW ⸜ Poland

No.70 March 2010

KRAKOW SONIC SOCIETY MEETING #70: BLUE NOTE ON XRCD24

Digital technology improves by the day. Two forces reign there – the urge to manufacture best possible hardware and best possible software. This separation is clear and widely accepted. And because technology is either digital, or striving in that direction, the development is quicker and quicker. The main power driving this progress are, of course, technologies related to computers – according to the improved Moore’s law (quite old actually – Gordon Moore, one of the founders of Intel posed it in 1965, and he was talking about doubling the number every 12 month) the number of transistors in an IC doubles every 24 months. But in a short while the semiconductor technology will hit a wall, because we cannot create a transistor smaller, that the smallest particle, can we? But until that happens, the computing power grows quickly. Software does not develop as fast, but even in that category, surprising things ...

main page | archive | contact | kts