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Upgrade Opinions

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Your thoughts please!
I currently have a Wakonda & LK 140 driving a pair of Kan IIs and planning an upgrade of the amp to a LK280 or an AV5105. Which of these two make more sense? Thanks Dave

Joe & Beth

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My triple Joe & Beth live in Amsterdam arrived today, along with Red & Blue, not played any yet, and they wont get played until after the weekend. Anyone else have them? If so, whats the sound quality like? Thanks
BV

XLD setting question

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Just purchased a Klimax DS and ordered a Qnap nas. Before getting them I thought I would go ahead and start ripping my CDs with XLD. Questions:

1. when choosing "flac" as the output format, in "option", is there any sonic difference selecting different flac compression levels? And may I ask what compression level did you choose, why?

2. in selecting ripper mode, I saw that Linn recommended using the "CDParanoia III 10.2", is it because it is better than the "XLD Secure Ripper"?

3. I do not have my nas or media server yet, I tried ripping several CDs via XLD on my iMac, the rip seems to be successful, with album folder and flac music files in it, however, I do not see album art. Did I do something wrong?

2Cellos

[Kazoo beta feature] Icons

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A few more Icons for sources on the new CP please. Certainly a Linn CP should feature a Turntable that can be assigned to a phono source, a TV a BLuray and a 'box' for an AV source.

I realise this doesn't impact functionality, but making things look good and intuitive is half the battle - not just my view, ask apple how important that is to success.

Linn Axis - Isolation

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I've recently acquired an Axis for my father. It will be sited on a lightweight cabinet which itself is on a wooden (Victorian) floor. I'm hoping that it will (a) sound OK and (b) not affected by footfall or other vibrations and I can therefore site its directly on the cabinet without modification.

Has anyone used an Axis, and if so did you use sorbothane damping of any form?

There is no chance of my dad getting away with a wall shelf!!

Great Album

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Anyone heard of this? Cracking album, wish I had discovered this before....

Reverting to previous version of DS firmware?

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Is there any way of finding out what version of firmware was on a device prior to the last update? Is there such a thing as a rollback option? I'm not so keen on the version that I upgraded my Majik DS to and want to go back as I thought it sounded far better than it does now. Is there an update log that records any changes within the DS?

[Kazoo Beta Bug] artist list, and clickability of artist name

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The search function is really great (doesn't seem to be getting much attention though). I've noticed something which I dislike in the UI.

Type 'alchemy' in the search box
Click on Artists tab -> see Natural elements by Acoustic Alchemy
Click on Natural elements album

In the album pop-up, the artist name is not clickable. I should be able to click on 'Acoustic Alchemy' and see just their albums.

I realise that in the artists tab, the artist list is presented on the left, but I think it's still valid to want to narrow the search down to a single artist, in which case there would be no need to show the artist list with a single item in it.

A note of caution re Solos and CD12 recently advertised

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A pair of Solos and a CD12 have recently been advertised on a well know auction site. They are from this insurance sale:

http://xchanging.assetnation.com/general...53237-0001

They have indeed been tested by Linn as fully working but no longer fall under Linn's standard service charge so if an item fails then you would need to pay the full replacement cost for that item (e.g. the replacement price for the amp board). This is because Linn cannot be sure that the circuits have not been stressed. Saying that the Solos seem a fair price.

The sale has full details which can be confirmed with Linn.

CJ

[Kazoo Beta Bug] Search results are inconsistent under each tabbed heading

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The search results are returned under three headings: albums, artists and tracks. The results returned under each heading don't seem to be consistent.

E.g. search for 'jazz':

Albums
Albums contains a grid of albums which have album names containing 'jazz', e.g. Jazzmatazz.

Artists
Artists contains a list of artists who have names containing 'jazz', e.g. DJ Jazzy Jeff. Click on the Artist and you see a list of their albums, e.g. Homebase and Summertime. But the list also contains Pat Appleton, Max Mutzke and Xavier Naidoo. Why? I suppose because in an album called Hell's Kitchen by Jazzkantine, there are three tracks which have two Artist tags each; one track has artist = 'Jazzkantine' as well as artist = 'Pat Appleton', another has artist = 'Jazzkantine' as well as artist = 'Max Mutzke', another has artist = 'Jazzkantine' as well as artist = Xavier Naidoo'. Or maybe it's because they are tagged as artists on an album which has an album artist 'Jazzkantine' with 'jazz' in the title, or where each track has a style tag of 'Jazz-Rap'. If I click on Pat Appleton, in her albums list, I see the Hell's Kitchen album (which led to the artist coming up under the 'jazz' search' but I also see her 'What's Next' album, where she is the album artist, and the album doesn't have a single jazz-related tag.

Similarly, under the Jazz search, OutKast, Jazze Pha and Sleepy Brown all appear. It must be because the track Bowtie has an artist tags for each of them. Outkast and Sleepy Brown should not be in the list.

It would be logical (albeit limited) if I saw only artists who have 'jazz' in their names.

Tracks
Tracks shows a list of tracks where (it seems - I can't tell because there's a lot of results, and also the album name is truncated) either the track name, album name or artist name contains 'jazz'. Albums and Artists have already been dealt with in the artists and albums tabs, so I don't think they should appear again in Tracks. Should the track list not contain only those tracks where the track title contains 'jazz'?

(Kazoo Beta Bug) Duplication

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Hi, Today is the first day Kazoo seemed to load all of my albums, I cannot be sure without an album/track list. Anyway I have been experiencing some album duplication which doesnt exist, strangely some of the duplicated albums disappeared and became one album after scrolling down past and then back up again a minute or so later, however some remained as duplicates and both copies play.
I do not have duplicates of these albums and from memory were all cd rips done by the Nas itself.


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Factory Tour

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A quick post for those of you considering a trip to Glasgow - I won't go into too much specific detail, as I don't want to spoil the surprise!

Whilst I went to see LP12's being made, I didn't, as volumes mean they are not made every day, and that is probably the one disappointment from the day. I did manage to see a complete range of Linn's other products, along with platters and a number of other turntable components under construction, all being manufactured to a very exacting specification.

What I did see is a British manufacturing company employing leading edge techniques, which give them a wonderful flexibility in meeting customers orders and producing them to the quality we all know which are made on an individual basis when they are received from their dealers around the world.

Once I'd finished the trip around the manufacturing facility, and indeed the rest of the plant, I got a look around the 40 years of Linn exhibition in their small museum, before moving into the listening room. Here I had a listen to a Highland Park LP12 through two banks of four amps into top of the range Exakt speakers. There was of course a LP12, Klimax A > B demo as well to round things off, I don't need to say which I preferredWink

David Williamson joined me in the listening room and spent what seemed like 2 minutes, but was more like 30, talking about his seven years at Linn and his influence on the LP12 over that time. I could have carried on talking to him all day, but he needs to work on the next idea, and no he wouldn't tell me what it was.

The tour finished with lunch in the Linn canteen. A huge thank you to Stephen for being a superb host.

Biwiring speakers

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Hi All,

I've got a Linn Classik Movie and a Roomamp, and one pair of bi-ampable Monitor Audio bookshelf speakers. The speakers are currently connected to the Classik front channels with jumpers across the terminals and they sound great.

However, I would like to take the jumpers off the speakers and connect the Roomamp to one set of terminals on each speaker, and the Classik to the other set of terminals.

End result, I'd like to have the TV audio signal going into the Roomamp, and my airport/turntable going into the Classik. Both sources would never play at the same time. I'd rather not get a speaker switcher.

Basically, two amps connected to the same pair of speakers.

Is this safe?

Thank you!

Plinth Price Shock

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I'm not posting much at the moment as I guess you noticed, but on checking our latest Linn spares price list issued by HQ on the 27th March, I thought I'd better.

The LP12 plinths which previously were £191.68 + VAT each in all finishes have shot up to £437.50 + VAT!!!!!

Why? Well the reason given when we immediately queried this with HQ was that there's been an oversight on plinth pricing and they should have gone up a long time ago!

Well, we all knew the standard plinth was great value at it's selling price and I have upgraded the looks of many an LP12 in the past. I somehow think this will be less likely in the future given the new price.

Apparently we were the only dealer to notice the change so far!..... So to all my retailer friends reading here.... Download your new spares price list now and get yourselves up to speed.

Oh the inner platter & Spindle is now £251.52 + VAT up from £232.50 + VAT.

Outer platters complete with mat remain at £153.34 + VAT take note!!

Regards,

Peter

Linn Clasik DVD Forum

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Hi there,
We are having some problems with Linn Clasik DVD. This device is plug with a multiroom system, a set of intersekt.
We have enjoyed with these devices for long time, we have installed 5 of them, but unfortunately we are suffering a very awful noise in all of them. We tried several test just to find out where the noise come from. We tried turning off the Interskt devices, nothing happened, we tried with different sources, we redo all the wires, but the same problem is happening in the 5 rooms.
Nothing happened with any of these tests except when we unplug the MAIN IN cable. As soon as we remove the cable the noise disappeared even though with the Itersekt turning off.

I don’t know what else we can try just to fix this matter but we do appreciate any idea that you could give to us.

Play Internet Radio without TuneIn?

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I've come to love the internet radio station Radio Paradise. I can access with TuneIn, but only at 128kbps. They have higher nitrate streams but am not sure how I could access them in Kinsky (which would be simpler than using Songcast). Any thoughts?
Thanks,
John

[Kazoo Beta Bug] Artist Search - extraneous results from multi-tagged artists

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Following on from this thread:

(Yesterday 19:13)davidd Wrote:  Artists - Get all tracks where track's artist tag matches search term, then get a unique list of all artists based on the result. Note (as you have gleaned) this can give slightly odd results where you get a list of artists that don't directly match the search term but are present because they are on a track that has another artist tag that did match!

I would say that this definitely constitutes a bug. Any well tagged library is going to take advantage of multi-tagging, whether it be for artist, composer, genre, etc. As things stand, the more multi-tagged artists in a library, the less useful artist search will be. In my 'jazz' search, I'd expect 'Jazze Pha' to be returned but definitely not Outkast or Sleepy Brown. Their relationship to 'jazz' is too tenuous to be included in the results.

put sand into 212 speaker stand

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Hi, everyone.

I realize there is a small bag in akurate 212 speaker stand. which you can put sand into the bag and put it in the speaker stand.

Is there anyone try this? If put in sand, will it increase bass but lose treble sound?

Thank you for any information!

RipNAS power supply question

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Being a user of the infamous RipNAS, during my move I have managed to lose the power supply/cable.

Looking at the website it states that the supply is AC to DC Power Supply (5A 12V DC 60W).

Before I buy a 3rd party supply/cable can any RipNAS user please clarify this?

Thank you :-)
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