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  1. Takatsuki 274B Rectifier Tube Mint Condition $750 View Classified I bought this rectifier new from Parts Connexion in the early days of tube-rolling with my Lampizator Horizon. It has 170-200 hours max on. It is certainly one of the top rectifiers out there and one of the few current productions that competes with the finest vintage models. It is just for my musical tastes with my SET’s and horn speakers, I’ve settled(for now) on one of my Western Electric 422A’s(which is not so surprising since I use them in my amps.)BTW, it wasn’t really a slam dunk on the change, I could easily live with either rectifier. Buyer responsible for PayPal and actual shipping cost. US sales only. Seller Nsxturbo Date 08/05/23 Price 750.00 USD Category All Others  
  2. View Classified Holo Serene Preamp $2000 shipped in Continental US Selling my pristine Holo Serene preamp for $2000 including shipping in the Continental US plus PayPal fees. It includes all the original boxing and materials but with the upgraded RMT-3 remote that will also control Holo’s DACs. No need to wait six weeks for one to be shipped and save $700 plus shipping! It is literally in perfect condition, just broken in😉 I will ship it out promptly with tracking as always. It is a dead quiet but added a bit of weight and meat to the Holo May’s presentation, that I have since sold here on Audiophile Style. I’m currently using my Lampizator Horizon’s built in analog in preamp section for any analog sources needing gain control. Admittedly, my digital playback is so satisfying that I’m not really investing in new analog sources. Thanks for looking, Todd Seller Nsxturbo Date 05/02/23 Price 2,000.00 USD Category Analog Components  
  3. Look as a DIYer at heart, I have followed all those discoveries, and that part of me wants to know how close we can get! But in reality it’s hard to keep up with a company run by a brilliant guy that’s will to use a lot of his vast revenue stream to keep advancing digital software and hardware. Let’s hope that some of that continues to trickle down to the DIY audiophiles. Also, I know what I’ve invested in DIY over the years and if I add that all up I’m definitely to the cost of entry into Taiko’s ecosystem! It just wasn’t one lump sum all at once😉
  4. The material is good grade Baltic birch(to eventually be replaced with Panerholtz) the two pieces of birch have a low pressure inner tube between them and Rollerball ball bearings have one cup on the top, but the bottom sits directly on high hardness porcelain. (A La recording engineer Barry Diament of Sound Keeper Recordings.) So the equipment floats on the x y & z axis. I would ultimately put a Taiko Daiza platform between the equipment and the bottom of the Rollerball cups to drain the internal oscillations from the equipment.
  5. I am using Windows LTSC with Audiophile Optimizer. For playback software(no frills our streaming, just local files)I use Bughead Emperor. I also use Jplay for both Qobuz & local files, but honestly in my system Bughead gets the nod, but is is very utilitarian😆Also files copied to the Zzyx drive sound better than those played from the Intel 660’s via VROC. The Extreme, even without XDMS is more resolving and lower noise floor, and I would describe it as calmer but with greater dynamics than our facsimiles. With XDMS, it is a whole different level of refinement with an even lower noise floor and then add to that more detail, soundscape depth and width and overall I would call it a beautiful but with lightning quickness and explosive dynamics sound. It truly is State of the Art Digital. Paired with the Horizon, It is no doubt digital endgame playback.(At this moment in time.) Emile and his team at Taiko, I believe will leave no stone unturned in both software and hardware development. I am awaiting my Taiko switch and network card, then down there is a lot more exciting developments. “I might have to kill another hobbie and get a side hustle just to keep up😂 BTW, our Extreme copies are in no way chopped liver and would best 95% or more commercial offerings!
  6. I wanted to post some updated photos of my now 3yrs running Sage WS621E build. The project has been on the back burner since I’ve been pretty enamored with my Taiko Extreme and Lampizator Horizon! (I threw in a photo of them for fun) Anyway, I updated my Nenon V3 power supply with the 220,000mf Taiko Mundorf cap and the high current Saligny mosfet rectifier and put it with the Taiko DC/ATX power supply in a separate chassis, then fed the wiring to the motherboard through the bottom of my HDPlex case.(I missed the quick sell out of the Taiko DIY chassis and honestly couldn’t really justify the expense having purchased the Extreme.) I also added the Zzyzx M2 drive which I preferred the sound of over the Intel 900P PCIe card for the OS.
  7. View Classified Holo May Level 2 $4200 Shipped! Here’s the chance to get an early Christmas present for yourself! I’m selling my pristine Holo May Level 2 DAC for $4200 shipped in the Continental US and you don’t have to wait months and pay $600 more plus shipping! I have had it for less than a year and it replaced my Chord Dave/Custom LPS. (It was much more emotionally engaging and musical than the Dave)It has now been replaced with a Lampizator Horizon which is over ten times the price and of course only incrementally better! I was going to keep it for 2 Dolby Atmos channels but I have to free up funds for Taiko’s new network switch and PC Card to be released soon. It comes with the upgraded USB card and firmware that allows it to do DSD 1024 and PCM 1536 on all OS’s. It also comes with all the original contents and the factory double boxing. PayPal is preferred and please add 3% fee if not gift funding. It will be shipped out the next business day after receiving payment. Hope it finds a happy home and will definitely but a smile on your face! Todd Seller Nsxturbo Date 11/25/22 Price 4,200.00 USD Category Digital to Analog Converters  
  8. Yeah, two of the 12core Xeons as opposed to the 10 core. I’ve heard they are a little more incisive than the 10 core, but that has never been an issue for me with the SET amps. And now using Bughead Emperor music player with no network connection and Majority Clean and Lemonade(Pretty rudimentary user interface, but great sounding) playing through my new Lampizator Horizon DAC with a great tube complement, I really can’t see how the Taiko Extreme server can improve on this very much. I’m really most interested in going to the Extreme for all the upcoming proprietary Software, User interface and interesting Hardware solutions coming down the road. It doesn’t hurt that Emile has some pretty incredible systems on hand to test everything he and his team come up with, plus a wealth of customers with a wide variety of state of the art systems. I am also very curious to have a direct comparison to see how well we have done with our DIY highly optimized servers compared to certainly one of the top commercially available servers available today!
  9. So it looks like there’s room for the full ULPS and the Taiko ATX inside the chassis. Is that correct? It also looks like with a different backplate full-size PCIe cards would fit in the MB slots, for those of us that use the full-size Asus HyperX m2x4 HD PCIe card. It might seem kind of silly with a Taiko Extreme on order, but I kind of want to see this project through!(Trying to fight my ADHD tendencies😆)
  10. I finally got around to making a passive heat pipe solution for my Xeon 3647 CPU’s. In my HDPLEX H5 case. Thought some of you guys who haven’t done it yet might appreciate the solution I came up with. The first pic is of the unmodified heat sink on the second 3647 CPU of the Sage WS621. The 2nd pic is of the remaining copper plate of the same heat sink. I took the existing heat pipes and heat sinks off one by one with tin snips. Then, I used a torch and desoldered the remaining attachments from the copper base. Finally, I sanded and polished the surface. The the last pic is of the HDPLEX copper heatsink sitting on its “new” copper base plate. I will use the torch with flux and solder the attach the two parts together, just like sweating copper plumbing pipe, the capillary effect will flow the solder between the two pieces and seal them together. I’ll follow up with the completed set up with the heat pipes installed and mounted in the case. I’m waiting on some long heat pipes to bend to reach the other side of the H5 case. The second one should go way faster because now I know I can use a torch to remove all the radiator pieces from the copper base, I won’t have to tin snip off each on individually!
  11. I have a black Extreme on order. As a builder of a Sage WS621 that I’ve continually tweaked over the last 3 years(including your spec’d power supply with the Taiko DC to ATX converter) I’m quite interested in your take Nenon! I think one of the biggest selling points for purchasing an actual Extreme, is Taiko’s customer service, ecosystem and their proprietary developments, including their upcoming music player plus all the other trick hardware on the way. Some interesting developments that I didn’t see coming at the Munich show! High priced products for sure, but it affords a lot of R&D for a very passionate Emile and his team. Todd
  12. I don’t get in until tomorrow at 2PM 😕. So much to listen too Saturday & Sunday!
  13. I’ll be there Saturday & Sunday. My primary goal is to hear the Lampizator Horizon and as many instances of the Taiko Extreme as possible. Both are on my radar for possible upgrades in 2022! Todd
  14. View Classified Chord M Scaler $3600 Shipped in US Well after much trepidation, I’ve decided to sell my mint condition black M Scaler. Price includes shipping in the Continental US, but PayPal 3% fee is not included. You can send funds as a gift if you want to avoid the fees. Price includes all original items and will be shipped in the Chord double box. Thanks for looking, Todd Seller Nsxturbo Date 12/31/21 Price 3,600.00 USD Category Digital to Digital Converters  
  15. View Classified HDPLEX 800W DC-ATX Converter $260 Shipped Doing some end of 2021 cleaning and decided to sell my HDPLEX DC-ATX. It served me well but was superseded by my Taiko DC-ATX, which at six times the list price, is definitely better, but the HDPLEX 800 is no slouch! Price includes PayPal fees and shipping in the Continental US. and all the original packaging and cabling. Thanks for looking, Todd Seller Nsxturbo Date 12/31/21 Price 260.00 USD Category Power Supplies / Power Products  
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