This hobby is so funny. I remembered some old posts on the forum about checking fuse orientation, so decided to test the orientation of the fuse in the power strip for Kalla and Boazu. To save time I decided not to reattach the top of the plug, leaving the fuse exposed as it is plugged into the sock...

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Have you tried powering the Källa up while disconnected from the network? I wonder if that would cause Källa to ignore its network settings and revert to DHCP.

Thanks for your comments. One week in and I'm starting to understand what Källa does. Right now two of my kids are lounging in the living room singing along to "Sledgehammer". Källa is playing quietly in the background but somehow it draws us in to participate, by dancing or singing along. Earlier I...

I'm not sure what 'slam' is. Perhaps I've never heard it, or if I did hear it, didn't value it. Do you mean bass that you feel? Quite a lot of my music produces that, and it is fun, but for me not what I enjoy most. I can tune my speaker positions to produce more bass that shakes the room, but I opt...

It took me a while to find a preference on '1' - in the end I settled on B - but only because I knew I was looking for a difference.

For 2 it was pretty easy A: "I'm not sure I like this" vs B: "This is good!"

Thanks. I've used it to satisfy my curiousity and prove that my speaker frequency range is within spec. I'm also going to see if it can help me track down bass resonances in my room. I also discovered that entering 3 instead of 30 makes the page take a loooong time to respond to the 'stop' button (p...

What is the purpose of the tone generator option on the Källa web page?

Thanks Spannko. My wife and I had the first listening session last night, which was thoroughly enjoyable. When Boazu arrived it seemed to really improve in enjoyability after the first week, so I'm leaving Källa playing Radio Paradise full time to settle him in. In some respects Hakai is a hard act ...

Källa has landed. Currently playing the warm up playlist.

Congratulations on your Källa and other new components. I have one arriving this week so I am encouraged by your impressions, Using a Hakai, I have heard worthwhile musical benefits by following as closely as possible the guidance given for both network and power set up, so I suggest you would also ...

They *sound* the same to me. I could not describe any difference.

However, I want to keep listening to 352 (despite no real enthusiasm for jazz), but I don't feel the same for 353.

I'm using 4.0.2

I only updated once and did not notice any difference in sound quality

I rarely play my ripped albums as Spotify sounds much more reliably enjoyable on my Hakai. Some sound better than Spotify, but most sound a lot worse. I'm hoping that Källa will make them sound good enough that I'll enjoy listening to the albums that are not available on streaming. I will share resu...

Thanks Fredrik. Yes the files are on a NAS. I'll check out foobar2000.

I have a few CDs that are not available on streaming services that I have ripped to FLAC, so I would like to play them on Källa.

Is anyone else playing FLAC files on Källa? If so, how are you doing it?

I don’t know of one loudspeaker, past or present which comes near to reproducing the potential of the most musical sources and amplifiers we have available to us today. I'm intrigued: how do you know? Maybe it's crazy to expect a couple of fancy cones of paper to recreate any instrument ever created?

Great list. I'd add Arcam Alpha 6 to Alpha 9 Amplifiers, as enjoyable companions to the Rega or Dual turntables.

Hmmm. I might be able to compare Källa>boazu>'cheap no name speakers in untuned position' with Hakai>boazu>Espeks in a month or so....

Am I right in thinking that Charlie did this a few years ago?

Charlie1 wrote: ↑2023-11-02 10:50 I do still see the source as the most important component in terms of spending.

That's true for me too.

There are so many factors involved in getting enjoyment from a music replay set up that generalisation can sometimes be more misleading than helpful. Apart from the equipment and the set up, there is the room, the context (home? on the move? ), the listener's habits, and their expectations. 'Source ...

Its just a shame the Virgin Hub 3.0 is so limited in its functionality and also a little flaky with its ability to list all the devices on the network. An even bigger shame it does not seem to want to reserve any of the IP addresses when it eventually decides to list it on the DHCP page. Still ever...

Which "Virgin router" do you have - is it the Hub 5? There are quite a few Virgin forum posts about the Hub 5 being poor as a router, with similar DHCP vagaries as you describe, but decent as a modem. You might want to consider investing in a new home router, and leave your Virgin one to modem duti...

A reliable app for finding out what is connected to your network is Network Analyzer (free version). On android it is https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=net.techet.netanalyzerlite.an This actually scans your network (choose the LAN scan option) and will usually see connected devices. It w...