I'll let you suss out if this is a dodgy site or not

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WilliamMcL wrote:Hi All,

Thanks for helping.

Sopper, I’ll send you a PM.

Best regards

William

If you need any local help just give us a shout William :0)

Can you hear the distortion/clipping thing on the Hakai David? Now that you mention it.... In the room, the ADS/3 is undoubtedly "cleaner" and free from distortion, and the Hakai brings not only musicality but a little "edge". Now, is that the motherboard or the DAC? Is that why I've marginally pre...

Can you hear the distortion/clipping thing on the Hakai David? Now that you mention it.... In the room, the ADS/3 is undoubtedly "cleaner" and free from distortion, and the Hakai brings not only musicality but a little "edge". Now, is that the motherboard or the DAC? Is that why I've marginally pre...

Musically i think it is quite close listening through laptop speakers, but going by listening to my Hakai at friends house last night someone mentioned with the Hakai they could hear high-frequency distortion so i'd guess the first one was the Hakai as my speakers were distorting with clip 1 It was...

Replacement clips, ADS/3 vs HAKAI N3050N-D2P: 1. https://www.dropbox.com/s/nhd4di1cqmsa72r/20181024_145840.mp4?dl=0 2. https://www.dropbox.com/s/lhi7vtnfngzc8sp/20181024_150226.mp4?dl=0 Musically i think it is quite close listening through laptop speakers, but going by listening to my Hakai at frie...

Yes, interestingly HAKAI has none of that digitized, fragmented sound. It's certainly not perfect in all aspects, but it's very direct, real and engaging. I've heard a couple of versions of HAKAI built from bits that are (or were at the time!) currently available. Whilst the original HAKAI might be...

Paaf wrote:In my experience eg. power cables and speakers.

The way the netgear and switches in general are designed the default is that there is little chance of them touching power cables and even more so speaker cables

Volumio and ESI gigaport HD+ still refuse to run stable, no matter what I try. It can play an album, but I have to leave it that way; still troublesome with switching song or adding songs, etc. It really is the ESI dac causing problems; my RME ADI-2 dac runs flawlessly Sopper, the Linn app works we...

Volumio and ESI gigaport HD+ still refuse to run stable, no matter what I try. It can play an album, but I have to leave it that way; still troublesome with switching song or adding songs, etc. It really is the ESI dac causing problems; my RME ADI-2 dac runs flawlessly Which one is musically better...

Looks like we soon can have Tidal/Qobuz integrated in next Volumio release :) https://volumio.org/forum/volumio-101-get-started-here-t10224.html Meanwhile I have installed bubbelupnp on my Qnap to get Tidal on my raspberry/Volumio streamer. Requires subscription though.... I don't think anyone here...

Can I just ask for clarification regarding the Deltaco SATA cable. Which cable is recommended? Is it the SATA-1000-K on the deltaco website or is it the SATA-1000 ? I ask because earlier in the thread the link to the markit.eu website leads to the SATA-1000-K cable. I'm unsure of the difference bet...

fatjulio wrote:Thanks for the replies. The markit link is very expensive. I'll take you up on your offer maffe, I'll send you a pm.

I do apologise fatjulio didn't realise how over priced that cable was ,I'll remove link

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I'm wondering if you're maybe not suffering from mains variation. How does Hakai sound in the mornings No its not that. It can sound quite bad in the middle of the night as well. I’m also under the impression that the badness stays for days, it’s not tied to just a listening session. Since I got th...

Sopper wrote:Yes, ESI connected to my HAKAI running Volumio

Why did you give up on HAKAI?

Got Hakai just gave up on trying to obtain a Volumio Nas

For the people who still haven’t managed to run Volumio stable with web-ui or Volumio app, update you MPD (music player daemon) as explained at the upmpdcli website: https://www.lesbonscomptes.com/upmpdcli/downloads.html Bottom explanation for updating MPD for Debian. Solved not responding web-ui f...

Since I have a spare motherboard, I will build the HAKAI NAS next week. Gigabyte GA-N3050N-D3H Motherboard 8GB Kingston Valueram 2 x 600GB Intel 320 SSD Streacom nano160 psu and FC5 alpha case Going to try OpenMediaVault NAS software, running from USB 3.0 stick. Will report back here You should pro...

My post is not specifically about a psu, rather it's about mains isolation. I came across these articles: https://andreweverard.com/2015/06/08/high-resolution-audio-now-with-added-fibre/ https://www.audiostream.com/content/electrically-isolate-your-networked-audio#QXqTlpw4VpBWQKvt.97 Has anyone tri...

I'm wondering if you're maybe not suffering from mains variation. How does Hakai sound in the mornings No its not that. It can sound quite bad in the middle of the night as well. I’m also under the impression that the badness stays for days, it’s not tied to just a listening session. Since I got th...

Azazello wrote:My experience with HAKAI is that it sounds fantastic in every way when it’s good and just plain worse when it’s bad. There is no compromise between music and sound in the variations.

I'm wondering if you're maybe not suffering from mains variation. How does Hakai sound in the mornings

Qnap vs HAKAI NAS: https://photos.app.goo.gl/hMSXr8RWMjq4dpcD9 https://photos.app.goo.gl/acqAEU6NKnZ67UKbA Night and day Azazello second one sounds flat .Must admit you get the prize for best sound for posting tunes. Listening from my Laptop cast to Chromecast Audio plugged into Tivoli pal I could ...

I managed to install twonky on Elementary (UBUNTU), it's very straightforward. Once Twonky is downloaded and unzipped make a note of the name of the unzipped folder Open XTerm (NOT the Terminal) and type in these commands one row at a time sudo mkdir /usr/local/twonky sudo mkdir /var/twonky cd ~/Dow...

Qnap vs HAKAI NAS: https://photos.app.goo.gl/hMSXr8RWMjq4dpcD9 https://photos.app.goo.gl/acqAEU6NKnZ67UKbA Night and day Azazello second one sounds flat .Must admit you get the prize for best sound for posting tunes. Listening from my Laptop cast to Chromecast Audio plugged into Tivoli pal I could ...

I usually do Ivors listen for the first 5 sec only but was surprised when I listened all the way to the end of clip 1.. With track 2 I got more of a feeling of someone strumming a guitar so had made my mind up in first 5 sec of track 2 ..Better sound and better musicality , surely not .I hope it's c...