After the completion of Erawan flagship streamer and Lira network station, I have been spending a great amount of time and effort into refining and improve NimitraOS based on Erawan which is my masterpiece together with Lira for over a year now.
The reason I have been working so hard was because I have a few clients who ordered Nimitra custom highend version and I have been working with them locally to reach the same height as Erawan. By the time I finished refining custom highend Nimitra version, it’s almost my 40th birthday.
With on going changes in market demand and Ai disruption that affected production cost of computer worldwide, I decided to launch Nimitra3 streamer and Nikola3 linear power supply upgrade with major changes in product lineup in this month that I’ll be forty years old.
Let’s start with Nimitra3 streamer first. After finishing Nimitra custom highend upgrade design, I implemented new changes into Nimitra3 with some hardware changes such as 8GB RAM to handle Audirvana / Roon smoothly. SSD has high precision clock upgrade too.
I also designed a new chassis for Nimitra3. It’s minor change but they are changes based on Erawan design to fit into Nimitra3. I printed back panel to show information better and change footer with gold finishing to match with Lira network station.
There’re a lot of internal changes and I don’t want to bloat this news with technical jargons so I’ll wrap up for Nimitra3 upgrade as below.
-NimitraOS is upgraded to Windows 11 24H2 based on ErawanOS design
-BIOS is optimized and tuned with recent optimizations for optimal performance and sound quality
-RAM is upgraded to 8GB with customized and tested model for approved sonic performance
-SSD is upgraded with high precision clock similar to how Erawan has SSD with upgraded clock
Long story short, Nimitra3 is reborn with Erawan as reference. Getting Nimitra3 + Lira together will save half of investment from Erawan for the most cost effective upgrade experience. Some people upgraded to Nimitra3 before official and they all are loving it.
Now let’s move on to the next upgrade Nikola3 linear power supply. Nikola3 is based on Lira network station design without network part so they share the same internal parts and circuit design including gold plated XLR termination outputs.
Nikola3 will come 2 outputs and DC cables just like Aura medical grade power supply with the following upgrades below.
-Change output connector to gold plated XLR with very high voltage rating (same termination as HDPlex)
-Upgrade DC output cable with high quality pure copper wiring
-Upgrade diodes with Schottky design with years of listening tests with different models
-Upgrade internal wiring with high quality solid core pure copper wiring
-Upgrade output transformer with 100VA Toroidy audio grade transformer
-Upgrade stock fuse with improved dynamics and musicality
Lira network station is a perfect companion with Nimitra3 that can provide both network and power infrastructure but you can consider Nikola3 if you have preferred audiophile network switch. It’s also possible to upgrade from Nikola3 (12V) to Lira in future too.
And here’s the most exciting news for CoreStream owners. CoreStreamOS is ready and this will enable all software features to make CoreStream working in the same way Nimitra and Erawan are operating. This will give a lot of depth into software optimizations.
CoreStream will come with premium streaming platform and receive unique optimizations such as runtime optimizations for Audirvana / Roon that will be introduced in future firmware updater release. I’m working on big platform upgrade with Audirvana now.
Anyway, there’s a big reason for CoreStream upgrade. As you may know already that the price of computer components have increased a lot due to Ai demand. The hardware cost of CoreStream got increased to the point that I should have launched CoreStream at $1299 USD.
But I feel bad to just increase the price because the market situation so I decided to turn CoreStream into full fledged streamer with CoreStreamOS and replace Nimitra Classic with CoreStream. Nikola Classic will also be discontinued (You can still order the last batch in this month).
The reason why I have to discontinue Nikola Classic is due to increased cost of parts and I can no longer stock multiple transformers with different voltages since I started importing transformers from Toroidy. Aura can deliver good results at very affordable price too.
I believe Nimitra3 and Nikola3 will deliver endgame streaming quality in your system for years to come after being reborn with Erawan and Lira as reference products. Here are the current price list of current streaming products launched today.
Nimitra3 streamer: $2,900 USD
Nikola3 linear power supply: $1,299 USD
CoreStream streamer: $999 USD
With increased hardware cost on increased RAM capacity and storage quality, I hope to deliver fairest approach to customers who purchased Nimitra before with flexible upgrade price based on market’s situation. I’ll list Nimitra3 upgrade at $100 USD first and pay the rest when done.
About $300 USD increased on CoreStream, I’d like to clarify that there’s $100 USD worth of software license and over $100 USD for parts cost increased. I didn’t take profit for myself and cover the cost for retailers too. You can return the product within 30 days so no risk at all.
We are moving forward with a lot of changes in this year and I believe we are moving towards the right direction despite the challenges in current market situation. I’m preparing future product line up for years to come that will set new standards for audiophiles.
