Expensive BS.
Keith
Keith
Sorry, but that's just absolute rubbish. If indeed it made such a significant difference, they wouldn't be shy to prove it objectively. Taiko is one of the biggest scams in audio at the moment, perpetuated in part by WBF which pulls in new suckers every day.Taiko Audio SGM Extreme Hi-Fi Plug Awards | Audio Therapy
The Taiko Audio SGM Extreme Music Server has just won the Hi-Fi Plus Magazine Award for "Digital Server of the Year" in their awards issue (issue 202). The Extreme was reviewed initially just 3 months ago in issue 199 and it didn't have to wait long to win thewww.audiotherapyuk.com
I know this is the World-Is-Flat Forum but by God does this thing take digital music to the next level. No, it probably won’t make much of a difference to your $99 DAC. Nor much sense.
But I encourage you all to have a listen. And swallow your tongues.
You must have ended up in the wrong place, taken a wrong turn or something…I know this is the World-Is-Flat Forum
Taiko Audio SGM Extreme Hi-Fi Plug Awards | Audio Therapy
The Taiko Audio SGM Extreme Music Server has just won the Hi-Fi Plus Magazine Award for "Digital Server of the Year" in their awards issue (issue 202). The Extreme was reviewed initially just 3 months ago in issue 199 and it didn't have to wait long to win thewww.audiotherapyuk.com
I know this is the World-Is-Flat Forum but by God does this thing take digital music to the next level. No, it probably won’t make much of a difference to your $99 DAC. Nor much sense.
But I encourage you all to have a listen. And swallow your tongues.
Last seen Sunday at 12:29 AMI know this is the World-Is-Flat Forum but by God does this thing take digital music to the next level. No, it probably won’t make much of a difference to your $99 DAC. Nor much sense.
But I encourage you all to have a listen. And swallow your tongues.
Taiko Audio SGM Extreme Hi-Fi Plug Awards | Audio Therapy
The Taiko Audio SGM Extreme Music Server has just won the Hi-Fi Plus Magazine Award for "Digital Server of the Year" in their awards issue (issue 202). The Extreme was reviewed initially just 3 months ago in issue 199 and it didn't have to wait long to win thewww.audiotherapyuk.com
I know this is the World-Is-Flat Forum but by God does this thing take digital music to the next level. No, it probably won’t make much of a difference to your $99 DAC. Nor much sense.
But I encourage you all to have a listen. And swallow your tongues.
Last seen Sunday at 12:29 AM
So.......
Cat got your tongue?
Thanks! That was a fun watch. What a waste of money that thing is.Fun video:
Love those curves, though. Such artistry!Hi
Those are run-of-the-mill prices for the High-End Audio crowd. This particular brand and model has received good reviews and command attention for reasons sociologists will have to study. The reality is that these offer no perceptible or objective advantage over a streamer that would cost less than $1000.
So that you have an idea how extreme and expensive these things can be here is a picture of the dCS Vivaldi, from their web site, it consists of a DAC ($35,999.oo) , a Transport ($41,999.oo, this is just a deck that spins CD or SACD, it only spins it , it doesn't perform digital to analog conversion, it only spins the discs, did I say that it only spins the discs ? ), an upsampler ($21,999.oo Which UPsample the digits to ... but does nothing else, is not a DAC either it only ... upsamples) and a Master Clock ($14,999.oo)... When you have the complete Vivaldi stack then you have this:
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It will cost you around $115,000.oo and you will have to believe that you are listening to the best digital Audio possible...
Then you learn that, under level matched and blind conditions any PC + a RME AD, sound exactly the same and you ... @#$%W^^#&! ing' and #@$%%!^hit ... for a while .... then some people on the Internet, among them, some tin-eared young person able to hear 20 KHz , tell you that it is 99.999% likely that you may not even be able to hear the differences between this stack and an Apple dongle costing $9.oo ... Your reply with vehemence that measurements do not tell the whole story because you heard the differences, and it was "night and day"...
Peace