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- 2010-11-21 21:08
- Forum: HiFi
- Topic: A better NAS than Readynas NV+
- Replies: 55
- Views: 56403
Thanks Paolo. I will replace my existing disks with your suggestion. NV+ is very affordable today and you get used to the rather plegmatic behaviour. Erik Yes I agree about the NV+, as a music library it's still perfectly ok and very reliable. Please be careful about the capacity of the HDDs you're...
- 2010-11-21 18:35
- Forum: HiFi
- Topic: A better NAS than Readynas NV+
- Replies: 55
- Views: 56403
- 2010-11-21 13:09
- Forum: HiFi
- Topic: A better NAS than Readynas NV+
- Replies: 55
- Views: 56403
Regarding harddisks, I believe Paolo has made some recent discoveries. Feel like sharing them, Paolo? Yes, though I cannot really explain the reason, In my experience HDDs can make a musically very significant difference. The best HDD I've found so far is the Seagate Constellation ES, surprisingly ...
- 2010-05-12 12:22
- Forum: Inside
- Topic: Cara Beta 3.6.7
- Replies: 33
- Views: 35231
- 2010-05-11 15:20
- Forum: Inside
- Topic: Cara Beta 3.6.7
- Replies: 33
- Views: 35231
Sorry but I don't agree about Cara 6 being the best sw to date (KDS), though I agree version 3.6.7 is clearly the best of the entire "6" family. I confess I was quite positive at the beginning about 3.6.7 but a proper tune-dem of this version against my previuos best (3.4.2) showed that the former h...
- 2010-02-05 15:28
- Forum: HiFi
- Topic: Multi wiring
- Replies: 14
- Views: 15916
Fredrik and Anthony, while I've not done any consistent comparison during these last years (my 242s have been driven only active or single wire passive, the latter being the simplest configuration to experiment with internal Chakra wirings), I sure feel near to you about multiwiring and passive mult...
- 2010-02-05 11:57
- Forum: HiFi
- Topic: Which is the optimal length of speaker wires?
- Replies: 190
- Views: 271067
That's an interesting test Fredrik! I've never seriously compared different lenght of K400, the job you are purposing is probably very reliable but also very time consuming. I sincerely confess I'll hardly find the time to make such test but I'm very interested to know the outcome if you do it! :mrg...
- 2010-01-22 15:38
- Forum: Inside
- Topic: Elevating speaker cables and interconnects off the floor.
- Replies: 14
- Views: 20271
I've tried many years ago experimenting a little bit with this, suspending K400s both on insulating supports (pieces of foam and similiar) on the floor and hanging on rubber bands attached to the wall. The results were terrible indeed, you get a very impressive widening of the soundstage with plenty...
- 2010-01-13 17:08
- Forum: HiFi
- Topic: Power cords
- Replies: 205
- Views: 267892
I completely concur with Thomas' findings about Powerline. When it came out in the market I did try it on a Chakra 2200 and on Lingo and both clearly changed for the worse. Though I found the sound somehow pleasant, both timing and cohesion were seriously compromised, resulting in music being much h...
- 2009-10-17 14:56
- Forum: HiFi
- Topic: Klimax Kontrol/1
- Replies: 17
- Views: 24621
Mine has the upgraded audio board - not an all-new KK/1 - so it has the older controller board. Do you know if it's only the all-new KK/1 that is most affected by this setting or also upgraded original units? Just curious that's all. I don't know Charlie, the unit we used for the comparison was jus...
- 2009-10-17 10:52
- Forum: HiFi
- Topic: Klimax Kontrol/1
- Replies: 17
- Views: 24621
Hi everybody and thank you for your replies. Ok, it seems the general opinion is that the KK/1 is much better than the old version (well, just like it should be!), though some, as Charlie, has not been happy until the new unit has settled in. This has also been my experience with a number of new pro...
- 2009-10-16 17:47
- Forum: Inside
- Topic: New firmware for DS: Cara
- Replies: 87
- Views: 87523
- 2009-10-12 15:00
- Forum: HiFi
- Topic: Klimax Kontrol/1
- Replies: 17
- Views: 24621
Klimax Kontrol/1
Hello everybody, I've recently made a listening test with a fellow Linnie comparing my origianl KK with his KK/1, updated around three months ago. Let me make a provocative question to anybody who has listening experience about this upgrade: do you really think it's musically better? I mean, we have...
- 2009-10-12 14:37
- Forum: HiFi
- Topic: New Linn Dynamik Power Supply
- Replies: 101
- Views: 116188
- 2009-07-31 12:41
- Forum: HiFi
- Topic: New Linn Dynamik Power Supply
- Replies: 101
- Views: 116188
Hello, last night I've installed a new Dynamik PS in my Chakra 2200, currently driving Aku 242s. I confess I'm quite excited with the results, the amp improves both where it was already great - tunefulness- and where probably was a bit lacking compared with some of the competition - drive, dynamics,...
- 2009-03-03 18:16
- Forum: HiFi
- Topic: internal jumpers or ICs?
- Replies: 8
- Views: 13153
I've done just one time this comparison, going from internal links to daisy chained Silver ICs with active 242/Chakra4200 and the second option was a fair bit more tuneful. It has to be considered the fact that in that occasion internal links' direction had not been optimized and that the they had b...
- 2009-01-09 16:30
- Forum: Me and My system
- Topic: Christinas starting up-system
- Replies: 6
- Views: 10116
Hello Christina and welcome to the forum! The rule is to start upgrading from the source, and it always works. So the more musically satisfying option for you would be looking for the best turntable you can afford (eventually saving for a used circused LP12), then thinking about the arm, finally the...
- 2008-12-25 03:19
- Forum: HiFi
- Topic: Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!
- Replies: 15
- Views: 13141
- 2008-12-23 02:04
- Forum: HiFi
- Topic: Naim Powerline
- Replies: 8
- Views: 17739
I've briefly listened to a new Powerline (not runned-in at all) in my system. It is feeding the power amp (C2200) as it cannot be accommodated into Klimax boxes (neither KDS or KK). Given these conditions I find it LESS tuneful than the Power One it has substituted. The change in sound is very evide...
- 2008-10-06 13:19
- Forum: HiFi
- Topic: Ripping contest!
- Replies: 10
- Views: 13413
Re: Ripping contest!
While at it... Fancy a competition :D Who makes the most musical rip :?: If we get enough people interested, we select tune/album and start. Fredrik, is the forum server big enough to store some (lets say 15s)FLAC files in this thread? If not we need a ftp-server. Good idea MS! Musicality of rip in...
- 2008-09-22 23:17
- Forum: Inside
- Topic: New firmware for DS: Bute
- Replies: 80
- Views: 79995
- 2008-07-31 13:19
- Forum: Inside
- Topic: New firmware for DS: Bute
- Replies: 80
- Views: 79995
- 2008-06-11 00:29
- Forum: Inside
- Topic: New firmware for DS: Bute
- Replies: 80
- Views: 79995