A quick reminder to make sure that the Spotify settings are optimized - this makes a huge difference.

The default ones sound terrible and the optimal ones sound great.

I started with Tidal and KDS/2 when my excellent Zone-ripper gave up the ghost, and I did not want to risk getting a poor NAS drive - I have heard too many of these over the years. Tidal was much better than my back up Nas drive and I was happy. I later found Qobuz to be even better and switched . T...

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Interesting posts regarding the 'live feeling' with some speakers- I never realised this was so important to folks. Me - Musicality and understanding the tune is by far and away the main parameter I look for in speakers. If I could keep this and add in the 'live feeling' - this would be a bonus and ...

for me one difference with the 308 compared to floorstanders is that I dont hear the musicality when I am in another room or upstairs. Whereas with the floorstanders I sometimes have the feeling when I am upstairs that downstairs is a private gig of the band in my house. Its not soo much about volu...

I think you have to listen at pretty low volumes to compromise the musicality of 308s and have never got anywhere close to the upper limit for it be relevant. Having once visited a forum member who played his 350s so loud that I could feel the bass in my chest - I realise that I never play ‘loud’ an...

I agree. All one needs is a ‘musical’ set of speakers that let the rest of the system do it’s job, with minimal interference. Soaring treble and thundering bass are good and well but never at tjhe expense of musicality. My Komponent 110s have no bass and very little dynamics but I think they are as...

For me, what you’re both highlighting is just how unmusical practically all modern loudspeakers are To quote Brent Butterworth, "In the case of speakers, measurement methods that have been shown to predict user satisfaction with 86% correlation were established more than 30 years ago. They were dev...

A word of caution regarding speakers. They are the most "dangerous" part of the Hifi system because they change the tonal character the most. This can surely be fun, but also very confusing and steal valuable time from listening to music. In my experience, changing speakers frequently makes me more...

I don’t think Spannko can be using his KDS/1 as a preamp. I have still not recovered from switching from Sagatun Monos to the digital volume control on KDS/1 a few years ago. The Sagatuns went off for an upgrade and the music fell off a cliff. I remember being quite upset for a long time. I’m curren...

To me, Kalla has confirmed that the quality of the recording is everything ( after the abilities of the musician who did the performance of course). Before - I always categorised digital recordings ( CD or streaming) into 'good' or 'bad' and avoided the latter on my Linn streamers/ CD players. With ...

Källa has been a game-changer for me. There's no point commenting on its sound, it's all about the music. Analogue man has quietly left the stage... I look back at my expenditure on new and re-issued vinyl, and weep. Then I look forward on my future lack of expenditure on vinyl and rejoice. And the...

Good decision MBast Your next decision will be which interconnects to put on and which soldering technique to use. I'm sure I remember this as being pretty important to the quality of the final product- at least as, if not more important than the cable itself. I have absolutely zero skills in solder...

A few years ago I had standard linn silver interconnects and 9 metre K400 from Tundra monos to 242s. Wanting to move the tundras closer to the speakers using recommended 2.48m K400s, I tried 9 metre linn black interconnects (silver phono interconnects) from the sagatun monos to the Tundras- no conte...

Spannko wrote: ↑2022-01-05 13:39 Question: What cable do you recommend
Answer: Linn Silvers, soldered with good solder chosen for its musical qualities

Great. I’ll get some Mogami and solder them with audiophile silver solder!

One couldn’t make it up! 🤣

Maybe the Mogamis will be more musical. You never know.

Recommendation on the forum is to use Linn Phono interconnects - again silver is better than black and more expensive ( although the increase in cost is much less than going from 6m Black cable to 6m silver )

Best to get them made professionally using Lejonklou soldering technique.

In my experience the Karousel is more in tune than the Cirkus but not clearly better than the pre-Circus black lined bearing. Very interesting post, thank you. I got the Cirkus shortly after it came out and was very impressed with it at first. In Hi-Fi ways it was clearly better. It was only after ...

I expected the response you gave. Thanks. Im sure you will hold on to your lp12 but on the otherhand it may well be prudent to sell and use the funds to bolster another part of the chain. Or simply save the world :) If I had not invested so much energy into my LP12 (Many man hours in researching/se...

Another question. How do you use the I pad mini as the controller from other apple devices. For Spotify, run the Spotify app on the iPad mini. Then run Spotify on another device (Android, iPhone, desktop etc). Tap on the loudspeaker icon in the Spotify app and you should see the iPad mini as an ava...

Another question.

How do you use the I pad mini as the controller from other apple devices.

I can’t see it in the AirPlay/Bluetooth section?

Not a problem as such - just curious

Quick iPad Mini 6 question: is there any way to have sound output default to Airplay-Lejonklou*? It keeps reverting to iPad... * other than keep playing music ;) I have had this problem as well. It seems that when I turn off the mini iPad by pressing the on/ off button- it reverts to a default of s...

I think it is probably 80-90% Kalla now. Previously with KDS/2 it was around 50% but crucially, there was never the same thrill with digital and it was a reluctant ‘go to’ when I did not have the vinyl available. Now - it’s the same ( to all intents and purpose)engagement / enjoyment with Kalla as w...

In terms of comparing LP12 to Kalla, I find that where Spotify has the ‘same’ recording , there is not too much in it and I opt for Kalla as it is just quicker and easier - no extended warm up needed. Once warmed up, like Tokenbrit, I probably have a slight preference for the LP12, but in practical ...