Thanks everyone for your help. I have now found that the K600 has got a very faint Linn logo indicating direction so I can confirm that I have one cable connected in the wrong direction. I will re-connect the bananas and check how it sounds.

I will upload some pics tomorrow, but your question about direction is a pertinent one. My K400 and K20 cables have a linn logo and my understanding is that the direction of the cable is indicated by the point of the linn logo. :> points from amp to speaker. However the K600 has no logo so I cannot ...

I have linked the channels of my C4200 with the internal cables. How can I check the directionality of these? By tunedem?

I have a pair of Espeks which I connected via K400 + K20. I wanted to replace this with K600 so I bought some K600 second hand, terminated with some battered and rather old looking Linn Banana plugs. I cut the single length of K600 in two and soldered two of my own (newer) Linn banana plugs onto two...

Thanks for maintaining this very useful information.

I sold some AV 5140s, and the buyer sent me a happy email including the following: And what a jump!! I can see myself selling a kidney to try and run them with the kind of equipment they deserve. I managed to prise myself away from them and off to bed about 2.30 am this morning and even then I could...

It is difficult to apply an objective "value for money" to upgrades. We experience the twin subjective (emotional) responses of A (that sounds good) versus B(that cost me XXX). A > B => :D A = B => :? A < B => :( --A for all B => :( :( Both these assessments are very subjective. Are we getting carri...

I had a very similar discussion with my brother. We both find the process of trying different tweaks and equipment very entertaining in itself. We enjoy the music, but we also enjoy the technology. Neither of us are flush with cash, so we fund our hobby by buying and selling kit, which also brings i...

I have rashly bought a Lingo2 (ex-dem) instead of more sensibly opting for the trampolin2. At the same time I replaced my single Klout with a C4200 (they were bargains!). I'm not sufficiently disciplined to do a controlled A/A/B tunedem comparison :? for each upgrade, but the combined result is a si...

It's been an interesting voyage of discovery. I'm pretty new to this process of 'tweaking' and I've found some of the improvements quite astonishing. To the uninitiated (ie me), discovering the best set up is a bit like climbing a mountain for the first time in thick mists without experience, a map ...

I've had more time to experiment with coupling between the bases and the cabinets, as well as swapping cables (again), changing spikes and adjusting speaker positions (again). Consequently I now think that I was wrong to say that rigidity is not the primary factor. I have ditched the rubber washers ...

I've been bedding in my new speaker bases and I've got to the point where I can report the results. In the interim I swapped my AV 5140s with a pair of Espeks. These sound a bit sweeter than the AV 5140s but can still suffer from overblown bass despite experimenting with positioning over a couple of...

Sadly the LP12 was a scam: steer clear of any adverts for an LP12 in freeads.net or from fret-audio.com. It's still being advertised despite repeated notifications to the hosting sites.

Ceilidh and Charlie1 thanks v much for those links - I can see that this is going to be a fairly lengthy process. To start the tune-dem refinement of speaker position I placed the speakers wider apart and much closer to the wall (about 9"), which has already made a big improvement. I've not got to g...

I can't lay claim to eXtreme modest or high end :) Primary source is LP 12 (cirkus/valhalla) with Akito Mk2 and Ortofon Kontrapunkt 'a' via Linn Linto. My old Linn dealer rudely referred to my LP12 as a 'frankendek' because it has a odd history. The original owner had it mounted in a specially made ...

Thanks for your suggestions Charlie1 and Ceilidh. It seems my plan should be: 1. TuneDem the speaker positions (this will be my first serious attempt at TuneDem comparisons, so fingers crossed ....) 2. Compare A/A/B the AV 5140s on bases vs off bases I checked the base fittings last night, and the b...

Ceilidh wrote: Though isn't it amazing how poorly a partially-cleaned Klout can sound? Very much so. My first reaction was that I had damaged the amp. However the improvement brought by the Klout cleaning is behind my desire to sort the bases out in the AV 5140s. The bass now is much more prevalent,...

Thanks v much ThomasOK for your detailed help. The deck will arrive in a couple of weeks (if it turns up at all :( ). I will update this thread accordingly.

My brother is a stonemason and could make some stone bases for the AV 5140s, using the existing bases as a template (if I can persuade him!). If I go by the Youngs Modulus (compression) stiffness of various stones I can estimate the relative thickness against a solid steel base (200 x 10exp9 N/m2)to...

Am I right in thinking that the AV5140 is a precursor to the Espek, and would also similarly benefit from an upgraded base?

Thanks for your advice. Usually if it looks to good to be true, it is too good to be true. Fingers crossed ...

I'll do some online research and see if I can dig up some concrete recommendations. I'm not skilled enough to experiment myself. If anyone else is interested in cleaning the internal connections of the Klout, here's what I did in a little more detail: My first approach was to use 'Kontak' electrical...

A quick 'thanks' to Ceilidh for posting such a detailed report. I stumbled on this thread while looking for something else. I have a 10 year old Klout so I thought I'd try out the contact cleaning you described. And voila! I put on just 30 seconds of Yello to see if I could hear a difference and the...

I've had a search on different threads to make sure I'm not asking a question that's already been answered elsewhere (and learned that I should consider cleaning the contacts in my klout in the process :D ) .... so here goes: I currently have an LP12/Cirkus/Valhalla with an Akito Mk2 and I've manage...

Small correction, your reference to the Kontrapunkt b as the more expensive made me go and check on the side of the cartridge: it's the "a" I've got, not the "b". I don't know why I thought it was the 'b'. :oops: Anyway, thanks for the advice regarding the trampolin - that looks like the way to go n...