I find the Graham Slee Solo sounds very good, and you should be able to find it for about £325 (UK).

Is tunefulness a function of accuracy of reproduction? It's a function of accuracy of pitch reproduction, surely? 'troll OK, that's fine by me. I asked the question to discover whether there might be any suggestion that less accurate reproduction might be more tuneful (similar to the idea that the ...

Is tunefulness a function of accuracy of reproduction? If so, I would think an arbitrarily high resolution digital recording will be indistinguishable from an arbitrarily accurate analogue recording, both in theory and in practice... Will we ever get there in practice? Yes, I think the DS series poi...

OK, I'm happy to help. The AVA RS3 is running Windows Home Server, not Vista. Looks like it's running Windows Media Connect as well as the other media servers I mentioned. WHS is not uncommon for NAS's, so it's worth sorting out.. I'm happy to help. I'm going to see if WMC can be disabled without af...

The AVA RS3 is running all sorts - Twonky, Squeeze Centre, FireFly, RealTek HD... When Leia displays it, it shows as: <ServerName>:1:Windows Media Connect The laptop has a bunch of Leia log files in the Documents directory, but they're all empty. On the N810, one log file has this: Leia DS 0.2 (Oct ...

I just installed an Akurate DS and got it working with the Linn GUI. Seeing how poor the Linn GUI is, I installed the latest Leia (Dec 19) on both my Vista laptop and my Nokia 810 (running the latest OS2008, updated today). On both installations, Leia finds both my DiskStation and my AVA RS3 NAS dev...

Unidisk SC
Pekin
HD DVD
SqueezeBox 3
Sky HD
+ Record deck/Cassette deck/VCR/portables via AV switch.

I wouldn't take it too seriously. 'Source first' is just a way of emphasising the principle that the source component supplies the rest of the system with input, so however good the system, it is limited by the quality of the source. However, it needs to be put in context - if you supply a poor reco...

We also work with Sonos, Escient, Slim Devices agmonst others and where possible look to hard wire for consistency and reliability and last but not least sound quality! 8) I can see the arguments for consistency and reliability, but are you saying a wireless digital datastream will somehow sound di...

markus wrote:it is kind of a roomamp with ethernet input to access a central NAS storage and streaming audio.

So not wireless then? I notice that none of the links mention the network connection technology...

Having read the speaker descriptions and specs, and the refreshingly sensible articles on their web site (I particularly approve of the page devoted to their now discontinued DAB tuner http://www.avihifi.co.uk/Dab/dab.html) I'd be inclined to give them a try. Oh, and "Kettle Leads - An audiophile St...

I guess it depends on the amps... In general, I would expect lower quality amps in a active configuration to sound better (or no worse than) than higher quality amps in a passive configuration. It seems to me that the most noticeable amp problems are to do with clipping, and with a separate amp for ...

Lego wrote:I think i get it now.You're saying there is a bigger difference between the Katans and 212s compared to the CMS Di and the unidisk ?

That's how it seemed to me with my system at the time. My main point is that it's a pretty pointless and meaningless comparison for the reasons already given.

... I would still bet my woolly hat that the akurates were simply showing you how much better the unidisk sc is compared to the CMS Di. Perhaps I didn't explain clearly enough - I was using active Katans with CMS Di and then upgraded to the Unidisk SC. The improvement was huge - the Katans really s...

dlorde, when you say that the speaker is not the least important item in the chain, do you mean that 1. this is your personal standpoint (after all, the choice of speaker is often a very personal and subjective decision where one might trade Tune Dem-performance for deep bass etc) Yes, personal exp...

I'm not too fussed about the forum rules myself - if I transgress, I would expect to be warned, then I could decide whether to stay or not. I don't know for sure, because they haven't said (Topica being out of action except for post headings) but I suspect what some Topica people find unpalatable is...

Fredrik has a nice setup here (although my screen is wider than 600 pixels! ;)), he's obviously committed to the same ideals as Linn and the site is attracting thoughtful and intelligent posters. We should embrace the fact that Topica seems to be shooting itself in the foot and jump at the chance t...

I dunno. I emailed them at the support address when it first happened, but I haven't had a response. Mind you, Pipex have been bouncing and dropping emails forwarded to my email accounts since mid-December, and haven't responded to my support requests yet, so it's probably early days yet for a passi...

I have a system with Unidisk SC, with AV5125 amps driving active Akurate 212s, with a sub and an Audyssey Multi-EQ to smooth out some troublesome bass modes. I have had Sennheiser 650s (running from the SC via a Graham Slee Solo amp), for some time and I've found them a little too heavy in the bass ...