Taiko Audio Olympus

We are introducing a new server model, called the Olympus. Hierarchically, it positions itself above the Extreme. It does provide quite a different music experience than the Extreme, or any other server I've heard for that matter. Conventional audiophile descriptions as sound staging, dynamics, color palette, etc, fall short to describe this difference. It does not sound digital or analog, it's best to describe it as coming closer to the intended (or unintended) performance of the recording engineer

With Olympus, we are introducing the culmination of close to 4 years of research and development. As a bona fide IT/tech nerd with a passion for music, our fearless leader Emile has always been intrigued by the potential of leveraging the most modern of technologies in order to create a better music playback experience.

This led to the creation of our popular Extreme music server 5 years ago which we have been steadily improving and updating with new technologies over the course of its life cycle. Even to this day, we feel confident in claiming it's holding its ground against the onslaught of new server releases from other companies, and we are committed to improving it for years to come.

There are many technological advanced innovations in the Olympus, and describing them all will take time and will make this introduction piece hard to digest. In essence, Olympus embodies the practical implementation of both the BPS (Battery Power Supply) and the new interface XDMI (Extreme Direct Music Interface), formerly announced as TACDA/TACDD, but renamed to XDMI as it bears similarities with our XDMS (Extreme Direct Music Server) software project, being a more direct, or purist if you will, approach to processing "bits".

We have eliminated a large number of intermediate processing steps and conversions, in both hardware and software, for a more direct, more streamlined, more purist "signal path".

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