kimbleman
pfm Member
So guys,
Traditionally we listen to our music using a bunch of boxes, a turntable maybe, a pair of speakers all linked up with a pile of spaghetti (cables)....oh and all sat on a 'rack' of some description.
I met up with SteveH from these parts last Friday afternoon (myself and my better half Stella as I took the missus along too) for a demonstration of 'another way' to listen to your tunes without the need for clogging up your real estate with said boxes.
So Steve has a lovely house....contemporary with a great listening space, within which sits an unassuming (although to my taste) attractive pair of stand-mount speakers by Kii.
These are Kii Three speakers, containing drivers, Amps and Dacs.....so nothing that Linn are not already providing except in a more compact package.
These have an Ethernet connection (I believe Steve was using bog standard Cat5e) to the controller (small box with a rotary knob for volume) and interfacing his network he's using a similarly diminutive raspberry pi based streamer.
Folks.....sat in the sweet spot (align your head with his log-burner) central to the speakers and wow.....what an audio moment!!! These things sing....detailed (yet with an underlying warmth) and with precise timing....right on the money. For the bass freaks among us.....these bely their compact size and (according to Steve) reach down to around 20Hz (frankly I'm not going to question that) but with a punch (you can literally feel the air move).
It's not often my non-technical partner Stella is impressed by anything HiFi (she does love her music though) but told me if Steve should want to sell them (for some way below the £10k retail price) then I am to buy them and sell all my other paraphernalia!!!
So to all Pink-fishers out there thinking of a directional change (incorporating a move solely to digital) with £10k to burn (less once you've flogged all your old boxes) I'd give a pair of Kii speakers a test drive.
All that's left is for me to thank Steve for ruining my weekend by so completely trashing my current naim system I want to cry.....or sell it all and start again!!
Top bloke too Steve.
Traditionally we listen to our music using a bunch of boxes, a turntable maybe, a pair of speakers all linked up with a pile of spaghetti (cables)....oh and all sat on a 'rack' of some description.
I met up with SteveH from these parts last Friday afternoon (myself and my better half Stella as I took the missus along too) for a demonstration of 'another way' to listen to your tunes without the need for clogging up your real estate with said boxes.
So Steve has a lovely house....contemporary with a great listening space, within which sits an unassuming (although to my taste) attractive pair of stand-mount speakers by Kii.
These are Kii Three speakers, containing drivers, Amps and Dacs.....so nothing that Linn are not already providing except in a more compact package.
These have an Ethernet connection (I believe Steve was using bog standard Cat5e) to the controller (small box with a rotary knob for volume) and interfacing his network he's using a similarly diminutive raspberry pi based streamer.
Folks.....sat in the sweet spot (align your head with his log-burner) central to the speakers and wow.....what an audio moment!!! These things sing....detailed (yet with an underlying warmth) and with precise timing....right on the money. For the bass freaks among us.....these bely their compact size and (according to Steve) reach down to around 20Hz (frankly I'm not going to question that) but with a punch (you can literally feel the air move).
It's not often my non-technical partner Stella is impressed by anything HiFi (she does love her music though) but told me if Steve should want to sell them (for some way below the £10k retail price) then I am to buy them and sell all my other paraphernalia!!!
So to all Pink-fishers out there thinking of a directional change (incorporating a move solely to digital) with £10k to burn (less once you've flogged all your old boxes) I'd give a pair of Kii speakers a test drive.
All that's left is for me to thank Steve for ruining my weekend by so completely trashing my current naim system I want to cry.....or sell it all and start again!!
Top bloke too Steve.
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