Wow. True. Now that is 
Taiko SGM is an windows PC sold for $30K. We did AB testing and it sounds like a windows PC with ASUS motherboard.
Built a Windows Water Cooled PC with I9 13th gen and Nvidia 4090. you can using it for HQPLAYER and Gaming. It will cost a fraction of the price and will be 100 times more useful.
The perception that Tiko is good because of the ASIO drivers available exclusively to Windows.
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A windows PC. When the music was playing, the person I know who used to have one was saying, “Good sound”. I told him this is your dell laptop. He could not differentiate. I argue a laptop is better as it ca nun on batteries giving more isolation.
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I was expecting to sound like a Mac 
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We couldn’t expect it to be THAT good 
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At least the reviewer is an expert
Its special nature and exceptional sonics coming, I believe, more from its massive computing power and software solutions to reduce internal processes and create a direct line of digital sight for those magic ones and zeros
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Perhaps I should look for a Cray-1 on eBay, bet they’re giving them away now.
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We’ll use laser beams!
A Cray-1? I couldn’t afford the electric bill (or the service calls)!
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It’s all wood to provide a direct mechanical connection for those magical ones and zeros
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The mystical galvanic isolation has been achieved 
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Oh, for sure (more of a Lambo guy, myself 
) But then Ferrari actually does have functional advantages over a Yugo (probably has more usable cargo space and might even spend less time being repaired!) whereas Taiko does not outperform what I could assemble by looking through a dumpster behind Fry’s, and being a Windows box with Roon running, it does not even seem to provide any ergonomic advantages over a NUC.
Well, at least it’s not hideous.
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You making fun of my Yugo ? I really need to trade it in toward something more reliable, maybe a 1960’s British motorcar with Lucas electrical system.
Getting a little cool again Boris? 
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Ah, Lucas, The Prince of Darkness!
And Yugos aren’t that ugly (and even somewhat functional), unlike some audiophile equipment…
I grew up in Moscow. Anything above -40 is basically balmy! 
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As long as our power stays on we’ll be fine. Yea I know Minnesota winter but that’s a while ago.
So far so good in Round Rock, but not much left of my trees…
Yes, just back in from dragging a branch away that missed the car by a couple of feet 
Need a hard hat today.
Sorry to hear about your trees.
The south shore of Lake Ontario will have wind chills of -30(F) at the end of this week.
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Yeah. Luckily I did not have anything particularly valuable outside.
I believe previous owner didn’t take too good care of them, so they were smallest on the block to begin with. I think they’ll survive, but all the bigger branches are gone, so they will look even more pathetic…
I guess even Texan trees can’t candle Texas weather.
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