Johnseye

Yes there is a portal and insert between the two.

I bought Nenon's ULPS. It fits. Even in the Taiko case I didn't shorten the umbilical but I did shorten the DC-ATX to mobo cables. There are always tradeoffs. I think the case cost is about the same for each. The more people that get in on this group buy the lower the cost.

Angelo came up with an amazing 2 chassis solution with a port coming through the bottom of the server case into the top of the supply chassis. Read the last few pages of this forum. Once I get these cases I'll sell you my Taiko DIY chassis for a single case solution. If you still don't have enough room with that case then I don't think you'll find anything else.

This is "the" case. You can get in on the group buy now.

Solid core? What diameter?

I'd like to add that the more people who join this purchase will help drive the cost down from this. The ULPS chassis is about the same cost IIRC.

Where did you sit in the theater and can you share the speaker layout? Also, are you coming to Wrigley for the shows?

1 meter is a pretty long umbilical. By positioning the capacitor connecting to the umbilical close to a corner in the chassis and likewise the DC-ATX module directly next to the server chassis back corner, the umbilical can be short. I'm using the same one you made and even when I had everything inside one chassis I couldn't have shortened it more than a couple inches. What I did have to increase was the length of the cables from the DC-ATX module to the motherboard. I think that was a better trade off than keeping all of the supply components in the case. Taiko does quiet a bit to shield the supply components from the motherboard, using copper to do so. You probably have more familiarity with this than anyone Nenon, but with component placement, wire gauge and shielding don't you think a 2 case solution can be viable?

I would probably buy the existing design with PC backplate so that I could use it for both a server case or power supply if I wanted. Granted the back wouldn't be pretty from a power supply chassis standpoint, but I'd prefer flexible functionality and no one sees the back but me.

Both as the existing design is the same for a ULPS.

I own the Taiko DIY chassis today and have been able to heavily upsample for weeks straight without any issue of heat dissipation. I installed Panzerholz for the ULPS components although can't say definitively whether there was a SQ benefit by doing so. It did allow for more flexible placement of the supply components. I have since removed the ULPS components out of the server chassis and back into its own. It is very difficult to A/B because of the time and effort involved in moving the components around. When I first moved the ULPS into the server chassis I believed I heard a loss of SQ. After a year of listening with the supply components in the server chassis I moved them out and believe there to be an improvement in SQ. I don't know if it's expectation bias. One would think that there is noise generated by the supply that impacts the server components. My only complaints with the Taiko chassis are that is designed to have the supply inside, so unnecessarily big without, and its backplate for holding down PCI cards is terrible. Top ventilation could also be better. I'm not sure why they didn't duplicate that from the Extreme. My vote would be for a 2 box solution. Big enough for the Sage motherboard, but capable of other form factors. Also having enough room for the DC-ATX module. It would also be nice to be able to install a SOtM sCLK-EX in it, but that may be of limited value.

Do you hear a difference in SQ with different NICs (ie. Solarflare, JCAT, onboard, etc) installed when playing music from a local drive? I have 4 different NICs and have been spending time comparing with both local and streamed sources.

+1 Interested as well

I own one of these. It's an amazing sub. Highly recommend. Good luck with the sale.

Nenon's ULPS he was using prior to buying his Extreme is powering my dual Xeon Sage board. I did add a Mundorf AG cap and replaced the chokes with the Martin Mug's. Hynes SR7 DRs powering everything else. I'm using 2 sCLK-EX's with the Mutec Ref10. A SOtM NIC with the Sage, SOtM's switch and tX-USBultra, all connected to the sCLK's. I have an endpoint, which is a SOtM modified NUC with all its clocks being tapped from the sCLK. I can't get my JCAT USB XE to work properly with my Holo May DAC so if I want to go direct from Sage to DAC I need to use the board's USB port. I'm going to buy the new SOtM USB card and see if that works with the May. If it does I'll have one of my sCLK's changed to 20MHz. Not too different from yours. I'm still a strong believer in the mastered sCLK as you can see. I also prefer the sound of it going through the tX-USBultra and modded NUC endpoint vs direct from the Sage USB. It's much less fatiguing. We'll see if that changes with the new SOtM USB card. I'd love for it to be equal or better. I had bought the Sage before the SOtM motherboard came out or I probably would have gone that route. That's why I'm very curious to know how yours compares. To my ears Windows LTSC sounded muddy compared to Euphony or Audiolinux. I tuned everything with as much as I could find out about how the Extreme was configured. I used Process Lasso. Still not as good. One thing I still haven't learned is what the Extreme's BIOS settings are. If anyone knows please PM me. This has been my experience as well. I've spent the past couple months listening with Audiolinux and Roon. It has it's own sound that is very close to Euphony with Roon. Prior I had been listening to Euphony with Stylus for a couple years. Version 4 made me want to experiment again. Version 4 with Stylus has a bit of a bloom to it. It's a wider and deeper soundstage, but the instruments blur a little. Euphony with Roon tightens them up a bit, not to mention the Roon interface vs Stylus is worlds apart. Everything I do on any platform is with HQPlayer upsampling to PCM 1536kHz