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by donuk
2023-12-04 13:38
Forum: HiFi
Topic: Utopik upgrade
Replies: 26
Views: 28761

Re: Utopik upgrade

I added a Utopik to my ADS Kat about a month ago. It is a very worthwhile upgrade - at least as big as when I upgraded to the Katalyst board. So regardless of pricing debates, it is well worth doing. The sound is more like music - another step towards having a band in the room. Don't expect immediat...
by donuk
2023-12-02 13:42
Forum: HiFi
Topic: What’s Slam Got To Do With It?
Replies: 20
Views: 100630

Re: What’s Slam Got To Do With It?

For me, slam, is really a lower frequency transient, caused by say an energetic plucking of a double bass string or a crack on a drum. The joy of hearing it might very much depend upon whether it was there in the original performance. Is it simply the crack of a speaker cone reaching the end of its ...
by donuk
2023-11-04 11:25
Forum: HiFi
Topic: Utopik upgrade
Replies: 26
Views: 28761

Re: Utopik upgrade

I just asked the same question on Linn's Instagram and received an immediate response: The warranty only covers the power supply. Very, very disappointing I think you are being unrealistic, perhaps you expect too much from your hifi suppliers. Try this: Go to you local garage and ask him to fit a n...
by donuk
2023-11-03 14:59
Forum: HiFi
Topic: Utopik upgrade
Replies: 26
Views: 28761

Re: Utopik upgrade

And again Linn's retailers should dispose the old PSU-card, Dynamik or older, so the owner could not sell it or use it in another item. Same as when upgrading to Radikal 2, motor control card and motor in the garbage. Reprehensible. Why on earth should Linn's retailers dispose of "my", already paid...
by donuk
2023-03-28 18:04
Forum: Music
Topic: The value, appreciation of music in younger days and at some age
Replies: 15
Views: 7813

Re: The value, appreciation of music in younger days and at some age

I think it is very difficult to judge one's appreciation of the music of one's younger days. Especially if, like me, you were a teenager in the 1960s - a time when so much great music was being created and popularised by records and radio stations. So, for the sake of argument, I suggest that much o...
by donuk
2023-03-28 17:44
Forum: Music
Topic: What is harmony?
Replies: 5
Views: 4292

Re: What is harmony?

Perhaps you should evolve the "harmony-dem method"......
by donuk
2021-10-04 10:44
Forum: Källa
Topic: Recommended network components
Replies: 514
Views: 219409

Re: Recommended network components

deleted - posted in error - sorry
by donuk
2021-06-14 16:42
Forum: HiFi
Topic: Melco S100 Network Switch
Replies: 132
Views: 54470

Re: Melco S100 Network Switch

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by donuk
2021-06-14 16:38
Forum: HiFi
Topic: Melco S100 Network Switch
Replies: 132
Views: 54470

Re: Melco S100 Network Switch

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by donuk
2021-05-26 07:46
Forum: HiFi
Topic: syncing Youtube with Linn streamer
Replies: 8
Views: 5998

Re: syncing Youtube with Linn streamer

Thank you Jacob
It is what I suspected but nice to hear it from somebody who knows.

It is a shame that Linn have not addressed this because there is some beautiful stuff on YouTube.

Donuk. Rainy downtown York
by donuk
2021-05-25 22:31
Forum: HiFi
Topic: syncing Youtube with Linn streamer
Replies: 8
Views: 5998

Re: syncing Youtube with Linn streamer

Thanks for this Flowmotion.
Unfortunately I cannot find a similar adjustment for an ADS/Kat.

Donuk
by donuk
2021-05-25 12:23
Forum: HiFi
Topic: syncing Youtube with Linn streamer
Replies: 8
Views: 5998

syncing Youtube with Linn streamer

Can one of you wise people please point me in the right direction? I rather like viewing old pop videos on Youtube on my iPad, and having the audio play via my Linn ADS on the Net Aux input. Connected to and from my iPad via wifi of course. The rest by ethernet. Some recordings are amazingly musical...
by donuk
2021-05-23 19:39
Forum: HiFi
Topic: Cheap power strips for best sound.
Replies: 227
Views: 119669

Re: Cheap power strips for best sound.

Further to the above - I will just comment without starting a new thread on fuses — that simply as a matter of safety I replaced the 13 Amp fuse on the 3 socket power strip above with an old 5 amp fuse from my tool box. I did this simply for safety reasons. If anything draws about a kilowatt, then b...
by donuk
2021-05-23 14:07
Forum: HiFi
Topic: Cheap power strips for best sound.
Replies: 227
Views: 119669

Re: Cheap power strips for best sound.

This is worth a punt if you are in the UK.

- the code is too long to work by a direct link but look this up on e bay:
google alpine BLA113WP

Thightens things up. No neon to have to destroy. Have put my digital boxes all together. An improvement.

Donuk beautiful downtown York
by donuk
2021-05-17 09:59
Forum: HiFi
Topic: Linn Klimax DSM Organik, impressions
Replies: 108
Views: 52789

Re: Linn Klimax DSM Organik, impressions

Hearing acoustical instruments perform live incorporates the same effect. Higher frequencies travels faster. In fact, a good symphony orchestra compensates this effect to a certain degree by having the double basses being slightly "pushy" in there playing. The same in a jazz quartet, with the bass ...
by donuk
2021-05-14 13:22
Forum: Källa
Topic: Källa overview
Replies: 68
Views: 44728

Re: Källa overview

I am assuming that my KDS And sneakys work in a similar fashion to Kalla with the control point . In which case the choice of device for the control point will also affect musicality. Perhaps someone can explain how control points can affect musicality when they are used simply to load a series of ...
by donuk
2021-05-04 19:12
Forum: Källa
Topic: Recommended control points
Replies: 229
Views: 134794

Re: Recommended control points

Tokenbrit


Yes. Try your NAS.
Fix your address on it as well as your router.
Also it will prevent playlists which hold absolute addresses becoming useless.

Donuk wet downtown York
by donuk
2021-05-03 18:05
Forum: Källa
Topic: Recommended control points
Replies: 229
Views: 134794

Re: Recommended control points

I am aware that I take a different stance on some matters hifi on this Forum, which is one reason it fascinates me. I will just throw in a couple of observations which might have some bearing on this discussion. My experience suggests that the success of streaming in general depends very much on wha...
by donuk
2021-04-26 22:06
Forum: Källa
Topic: Källa overview
Replies: 68
Views: 44728

Re: Källa overview

Personally I am disappointed that the Kalla does not have an onboard volume control that can be bypassed. I am aware of the sonic preferences for preamplifiers. But it would mean that one could start with a simpler system and regard a preamplifier as an upgrade when funds allowed. As an ADS Kat user...
by donuk
2021-04-24 19:32
Forum: Källa
Topic: Källa As A Streamer
Replies: 72
Views: 37537

Re: Källa As A Streamer

When you purchase a file from a streaming company, what do you get?
I have never heard a purchased Qobuz file sounding worse than a Qobuz streamed one?
Should it?

Donuk
by donuk
2021-03-24 18:21
Forum: HiFi
Topic: Akurate DS versus DSM
Replies: 9
Views: 6658

Re: Akurate DS versus DSM

Thank you Matteo for your thought provoking comments. In what ways is an LP12 a better "transport" than a digital streamer? Wow and flutter? Cross-talk? Signal to noise ratio? Introduced distortion? I guess it is just because it is "more musical". Forgetting about the complexities of delivering Qobu...
by donuk
2021-03-16 21:50
Forum: Lejonklou
Topic: Boazu with Majik140
Replies: 40
Views: 24570

Re: Boazu with Majik140

This is turning into an interesting thread with a helpful variety of views. Just a couple of points. Many recordings bring to the mix, quite literally, the room characteristics of the concert hall, or the amount of bass reverb the producer wishes to add. So in one's own room one is trying to make se...
by donuk
2021-03-14 18:36
Forum: Lejonklou
Topic: Boazu with Majik140
Replies: 40
Views: 24570

Re: Boazu with Majik140

I do think Sunbeamgls has a point. Where does the music start?? My guitar has a phase switch, a notch filter and a couple of tone controls. My amplifier has a reverb (actually mechanical), and numerous tone filters. It is then usually miked up from a few feet away to go into the desk for recording o...
by donuk
2021-02-27 15:02
Forum: HiFi
Topic: Spendor A4
Replies: 8
Views: 6173

Re: Spendor A4

I had some Spendor A6 once. Rather relaxed, unexciting to some ears, restful to others. Not the same as the A4 - I know. But the A6s were greatly improved to replacing all the push-on plugs and sockets inside with nice solder joints. Came to life a lot. Still not as dynamic and musical as the Totem ...
by donuk
2021-02-16 17:32
Forum: HiFi
Topic: A special human skill
Replies: 20
Views: 8862

Re: A special human skill

Music that is recorded digitally can never be closer to the musicians than it is on the hard disk in the recording studio. It's just entropy after that. The vinyl recording and reproduction process may indeed mellifluously embellish the sound. But to eschew digital sound is to throw away most record...