I've been looking for a Kikkin preamp for my office setup for some time and was curious to see if my Grado RA1 headphone amp could be bettered. Giella seemed promising in both these categories, so I was quick to order one. I got it a few days before the holidays, and have had some time to play with ...

lejonklou wrote: ↑2020-11-26 23:32

lejonklou wrote: ↑2020-11-19 23:59 I think Sagatun Stereo is better. But they're very different, so it's not that easy to judge.

I take this back.

Which part? :D

Not to comment further on the aesthetics, I just wish to point out that I was objecting to it purely on aesthetic grounds, I'm not looking for a "cheaper option".

And if the hiphop-stars of the world want a Giella amp, I see nothing wrong with that! :D

Congratulations on what I'm sure is another knockout product, Fredrik. I cannot wait to hear it! Now, on the knob front.. Is there any chance you would consider a rock-less option? No diamond (fake or not) - just a smooth indentation as indicator? No offense to you or your mother intended, but I fin...

If, like me, you don't frequent social media, or enter this forum through the lejonklou.com main page (who does?), you might not have noticed there is now a picture of the front of Giella in the news section (https://www.lejonklou.com/news/) It's been up for more than a week, but I just happened upo...

lejonklou wrote: ↑2020-10-12 23:20 Then we ship!

Good to hear! I hope to see pictures of the front at some point! :D

lejonklou wrote: ↑2020-10-08 23:02 Thank you for your patience!

Shall we interpret the lack of a more formal announcement as Giella still being some ways off? Do you expect to have it shipping this year? I have to admit to being quite excited! :)

ThomasOK wrote: ↑2020-10-08 23:04 There is a line out that is volume controlled, so it can also act as a Super Kikkin.

Yes!! This sounds like exactly the product I was hoping for!

Eagerly awaiting more info... :)

lejonklou wrote: ↑2020-10-08 15:02 Coming soon

:D

I don't trust myself to not be affected by other people's results, so I did it blindly. I played one three times, then switched. Played the other one twice and decided it was worse. Then checked the urls.

Turns out I prefer the second one as well. Hmm.

Nothing comes close to the Intel series. While I don't entirely distrust the results (I've never tried the Intel disks myself), after all this time, I do wish someone could come up with some sort of explanation for this, or at least a hypothesis. What could it possibly be? Are they unusually well s...

I just wanted to report that I recently bought a Supra USB cable (1 m A to mini B) for a newly built HAKAI and it immediately shorted the USB power so that the HAKAI went down and the DAC made a stuttering sound from the power supply protection switching on and off. Dangerous! It could have permane...

I'm skeptical of test music without rhythm, but yeah.. I think I prefer clip#2 too.

I don’t know if this issue have been solved all reddy. Just played one of the few 24/96 and both Volumio and Kazoo say “24/96”. Latest Volumio installed. I think it's just showing the rates of the source material, not what it sends to the DAC. If I play a 192/24 FLAC, Volumio merrily displays that ...

Yes, that's what I'm saying. Amazing. I need to hear them at some point. [...] a really good headphone amp. Source First - the headphone amp is more important than the headphones. And I know some headphones can change a lot when being driven properly. I haven't got around to doing this yet, althoug...

I'd bring my Bose NC700 as a reference and they say they're ready for some combat. I recently compared with my three OLD (even close to ancient) favorite AKG's (550, K24P and K420). Oh my, things have improved in 10+ years. They're so far behind that it's hard to comprehend. Hang on, I gotta check ...

tokenbrit wrote: ↑2019-12-14 23:00 I was going to say that I was more comfortable with 1, but since jazz makes me uncomfortable, that probably means 2 is better.

Hehe, I tried to play this to my girlfriend, but her only reply was "Why are you doing this to me? Why torture me like this?". She's not a jazz fan either..

To follow up; The piece is Calcutta Cutie of the Horace Silver album Song for my Father The system setup is Volumio running on an Asus Tinkerboard into a ESI GIgaport DAC into a set of Genelec 8020D active speakers (I would like to try a Kikkin here, if I ever find one) - my "office hifi", as it wer...

Here are two clips of a comparison I did a while back. It's a 48/16 fixed level mono recording done with a USB microphone via ALSA, directly to WAV. I wasn't sure what to expect from this comparison. No difference? Imagination-level differences? That's not what I found. Let's hear what you think. :)...

maffe wrote: ↑2019-11-01 17:55 You can read about it here:
https://www.lejonklou.com/forum/viewtop ... it=Radikal

Since that thread is about the Radikal motor touching one of the Trampolin's feet, I'm less convinced it is the same issue.

Here’s another couple of mains cable experiment videos. The setups are identical except for the ground/earth cables being star connected in two different positions. One is at the equipment end, where the power flexes would be plugged into the wall/power strip, and the other is star connected at the...

In room the differences aren’t that small, but after listening to the clips I can understand the difficulty. I have made three new clips, hopefully it will be easier this time. Two are the same cable, but in one I have done a little tweak. https://www.dropbox.com/s/3xmlg8wgzb8xa99/Video%2031.10.19%...

Here's a comparison of two ethernet cables: Audioquest Cinnamon vs. Blue Jeans Cable 6a. Which do you prefer? Mind you, the BJC are brand new. 3 cables were exchanged: router - Cisco/NAS - Cisco/Cisco - ADSM https://www.dropbox.com/s/zr4130z0bhy2wb6/Video%2029.10.19%2C%2020%2034%2034.mov?dl=0 https...

how about a headphone amp with 3 inputs and a preamp out so it can do double duty as a preamp. It is something others have done [...] I was going to suggest that too. I've seen some such products, and for me personally, exactly the product I'm looking for. I have no idea how different a preamp desi...

The conclusion to my Supra USB cable drama (see above)... Of course I never got any technical feedback from the firm I got the cable (and the replacement) from. They just, finally, accepted the return and I got my money back. Fast forward a month, and I happened upon the same cable at a different on...