Taiko Audio Extreme Server Taiko USB Card and Extreme Network Card User Guide

Extreme Server Taiko USB
Card and Extreme Network Card
User Guide Recommended Roon Settings
Guide to making the ideal Roon settings on the Taiko Extreme Server

Extreme Server Taiko USB Card and Extreme Network Card

There are 8 steps in this process:

1. Disable the Music Folder
2. Set Background audio analysis to Off
3. Set On-Demand audio analysis to Off
4. Do not enable any audio zone except ASIO
5. Select DSD strategy
6. Set Resync Delay to zero
7. Select your DAC’s maximum sample rate and bit depth
8. Follow our separate “Supported DACs and USB Profile Guide” to choose and activate the ideal USB profile for your DAC
9. Disable DSP and remove filters

Please Note
Each Roon Zone has its own settings and the below settings pertain to the default Roon Zone. If a new DAC is introduced or the Zone is removed and re- added, the settings may need to be re-made. Some of these settings can revert after a Roon update.

Open the Hamburger Menu

Select Settings

If enabled, disable the Music Folder

(Roon should only index the Extreme Music Drive D:)
Settings – Storage

After disabling the Music Folder, this is what this section should look like:

Select Library

Set Background audio analysis speed to Off

Settings – Library – On-demand audio analysis speed

  Set On-Demand audio analysis to Off

Settings – Library – On-demand audio analysis speed

Do not enable any audio zone except ASIO

Settings – Audio

Select DSD strategy

Settings – Audio – ASIO – Device Setup
Find the ASIO Zone, click the gear wheel and select ‘Device Setup’

In the Device Setup popup window, select the appropriate DSD transport stream according to your DAC’s capabilities. The setting should always be Native, unless that option is not available. Some DACs cannot process DSD directly, in which case it should be set to DoP most of the time.

Set Resync Delay to 0ms

Settings – Audio – ASIO – Device Setup – Resync Delay
Set Resync Delay to ‘0ms’ unless your DAC needs some time to lock after Sample Rate changes. If the first few milliseconds of a track are cut off, you can try setting this to a higher value.

Select your DAC’s maximum sample rate and bit depth

Settings – Audio – ASIO – Device Setup – Show advanced
In the same Device Setup popup window as used for the previous step, click ‘Show advanced’

• Select your DAC’s maximum Sample Rate for PCM
• Select your DAC’s native bits per sample for PCM (bit depth)
• Select your DAC’s maximum sample rate for DSD

Taiko Audio Extreme Server USB Profiles

Follow our separate “Supported DACs and USB Profile Guide” to choose and activate the ideal USB profile to use to achieve an ideal interaction between the Extreme Server’s USB interface and your particular DAC model. This guide also  lists the ideal Bit Depth to select in Roon.
This document can be downloaded from the Taiko Audio website’s download section https://taikoaudio.com/taiko-2020/taiko-audio-downloads

Disable DSP and remove filters

Home – Speaker icon
Click the speaker icon at the right-hand bottom

Click ‘DSP’
Home – Speaker icon

This will open the following DSP screen
Home – Speaker icon – DSP

Confirm that Headroom management is disabled
Confirm that Sample rate conversion is disabled
Confirm that no Filters have been added Added filters can be removed by clicking ‘Remove filter’ as illustrated below.

Addendum

Multi-channel mixing
This is a user preference. Unless you have a surround setup, leave it at “Downmix as needed”. This only applies to multichannel music, where 2-channel users will want Roon to mix the multiple channels into 2 for the main speakers.
Use Maximum Buffer Size
Leave at default “No” setting.
Power-Of-2 Hardware Buffer Size
Leave this at the default “No” setting. For more information, see the below quote from the Roon site.
Use Power-Of-2 Hardware Buffer Size (Core Audio Exclusive Mode + ASIO only)
This one is sort of like Use Max Hardware Buffer Size except it forces buffer sizes to the nearest power of 2 instead of the largest possible size. This is a workaround for bugs in some audio drivers and devices. It’s worth a shot if you’re  experiencing dropouts, clicks, or pops during playback, but in 99% of cases, it adds nothing of value. We don’t recommend turning this on unless it solves problems for you.
https://help.roonlabs.com/portal/en/kb/articles/audio-setup- basics#Clock_Master_Priority

References

• help.roonlabs.com/portal/en/kb/articles/audio-setup-basics#Clock_Master_Priority

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