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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. 175 December 2018

No. 175 December 2018

Krakow Sonic Society | meeting #117: SHUNYATA RESEARCH Denali D6000S vs Denali D6000T vs Triton v3 | USA / POLAND-KRAKOW

⌈ Audio devices must be supplied with the purest possible power – that is obvious. The cleaner the power, the better the sound - it also does not require a comment. However, when we explore the topic further, things get complicated. ⌋ here are at least a few ways (in general terms) to deliver pure power. The most important dividing lines may be described as: "battery supply ↔ mains supply" and "passive filtration ↔ active filtration". Each of these ways to improve the quality of the supply voltage has its advantages, but also disadvantages, and therefore its supporters and opponents. We write about representatives of each of these "approaches" to the elimination of interference from the power grid from time to time. As examples of manufacturers utilizing battery power supply I may give you Bakoon and elinsAudio Manufacture; almost all ...

No. 174 November 2018

No. 174 November 2018

KRAKOW SONIC SOCIETY | Meeting #116: THE CASE OF MUSIC FILES, part. 2: PCM | POLAND/Krakow

⌈ Files are a topic that is of interest to almost everyone today. This is the most popular way of distributing music. But is it the best? Are record labels and producers able to offer more demanding listeners a high-end sound? We will try to answer these questions in the second KTS meeting dedicated to music files. This time will deal with PCM. ⌋ CM, i.e. Pulse Code Modulation, is a way of recording digital signal used in audio on CD, HDCD, DVD and BD discs. And also in music files. During the previous meeting of the Society, we looked at DSD files ripped from SACD discs (more HERE). This is one of the most popular methods of acquiring them, although it is deals with many problems – the ripping process largely depends on external factors that can change the sound. A better idea is to download such a file from an on-line store - stores receive them directly from the publishers. ...

No. 172 September 2018

No. 172 September 2018

KRAKOW SONIC SOCIETY | Meeting #115: BRIPHONIC. Or: crazy ride.
And also – the case of music files | JAPAN/POLAND

udiophiles love gadgets - we know that, right? Regardless of how much we would rationalize it, try to explain this weakness, we are particularly susceptible to logotypes, descriptions of techniques, new technologies, stories. But just because it is so common phenomenon is not worth to fight it, or to pretend to be something that we are not. Let's put it plain and simple: the so-called "price tag" is just as important to us as it is for those sitting at the catwalk during the Milan Fashion Week. And the manufacturers know our weakness and try to use it - it is also completely normal. We are therefore interested in novelties, fascinated by their uniqueness, buying, for example, say fifth edition of a CDs that we already have and know in hope that it will be THE RIGHT one and, implicitly, THE ULTIMATE edition. Often it turns out that it is worse then the ones we already have, or just as often that ...

No. 166 March 2018

No. 166 March 2018

KRAKOW SONIC SOCIETY | Meeting #113:
dCS VIVALDI ONE | Super Audio CD/music files Player | UK

SPECTACLE IN TWO ACTS WITH EPILOGUE | PLACE Kraków | Janusz Kraków | Tomek | CAST RAVEN BAAVA | dCS, Krakow Sonic Society JAREK ORSZAŃSKI | Audiofast JANUSZ, RYSIEK B., WICIU, TOMEK, BARTOSZ | Krakow Sonic Society MICHAŁ | Locusvini JAROMIR WASZCZYSZYN | Ancient Audio, Krakow Sonic Society, WOJCIECH PACUŁA | „High Fidelity”, Krakow Sonic Society | RECORDINGS Georg Philipp Telemann, Parisier Quartette 4-6 (Parisian Quartets). The Age of Passions, Deutsche Harmonia Mundi/Sony Music 88883717672, CD (2014) Herb Ellis/Joe Pass, Seven, Come Eleven, Concord Records SACD-1015-6, SACD/CD (1974/2003) Recoil, Liguid, Mute Records CDStumm173, CD (2000) Swingle Singers, Les 4 Saisons “Le Printemps”, Philips/Vocalion CDLK 4606, SACD/CD (1972/2017) The Dave Brubeck Quartet, Time Out, Columbia Records/Sony ...

No. 164 January 2018

No. 164 January 2018

KRAKOW SONIC SOCIETY | Meeting #112:
a| VINYL IN THE DIGITAL TIMES • b| MASTER CD-R

| I. THE RESULTS OF OUR COMPETITION „COVER 2017” he "Cover 2017" competition announced in October is now going to the past. Let me remind you that the task for participants was to photograph the largest number of "High Fidelity" covers presented in the halls and exhibition rooms. This year, their common motif were the flags forming the background for the covers themselves, indicating the country from which the manufacturer of the device featured on the cover came from. Unlike last year, when one could find them mainly in the halls, this time the majority of them was hidden inside rooms, near and sometimes behind the presented systems. It made the search more difficult, but it also made it - I believe - more attractive. And there was another challenge - one of the covers was... brought to the Show by the distributor, so no one could find it ... However, it did not stop ...

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