Recent content by Andrew Podmore

I used to be a meridian dealer in the 90s, running a hifi shop in the days before internet sales! What is the meridian product and does it allow for room correction? Andrew

Not dissimilar for a setting of say 60 on the linn kairn pre amp.

yes, I’m sure many do, and logically you would expect more modern kit to sound better, and in no way was I suggesting that from a sample of one currently available Chinese DAC and one 90s DAC that I could draw any blanket conclusions, that would not make sense at all, and bear in mind that this...

Well my conclusion is, on the basis that the digital stream coming off the cd in the karik is equivalent to the same cd only ripped to a hard drive and that one would hope for in both cases a low jitter data stream, then over to the DAC, as the only device in the chain to be converting these...

the Comparison was between essentially 3 dacs, the one in the karik, the smsl & the Numerik, source material preamp levels and rest of the system remained the same.

Yes, well summarised 😆, I would say I cannot speak for all currently produced devices, in this case just the smsl, hence why I opened up this experience to a wider audience to ask their experiences.

Well put, I agree implementation , it really is. On the karik, the Drum roll as it panned from left to right was so convincing that it seemed an actual drum kit was being played between the speakers and same track streamed via the smsl was as flat as a pancake, and this was just the beginning. I...

In this instance the chain is innuos zenith, usb to a digital processor with a 10mhz clock that then feeds the Numerik via coax at 48 kHz, now, comparing the original cd on the karik to the streamed FLAC copy via Roon is much more consistent with the karik, if not better. Roon is used with all...

Indeed, also maybe not just modern dacs - but modern dacs that are also better, in this instance that was not the case with a 400 quid modern Chinese DAC, playing cd quality material, despite this particular dacs higher spec.

cd was sounding far better than same cd ripped to Roon, seems the karik 3 was far better than the Chinese smsl DAC, a numerik proved to be the solution, Roon now sounding great, like the karik. A very large cd collection was ripped to Roon so was wanting it sound great. As you do

Hello all, whilst watching a video by Phil at Cheshire audio, (he prefers spinning discs to streaming) - it got me thinking to a recent experience. listening to a Karen Carpenter song through my karik 3, I noticed if not just the drum rolls, ( she was a great drummer ) but then later, just the...

I run a kairn, three klouts altiv kabers, source wise I run karik Numerik, lp12, ekos moving coil, I’ve owned a smsl su9 DAC, but through a clever device have been able to connect my innuos streamer and Roon in to the Numerik 2nd digital input, the hires streamed stuff at 96 / 192 either flac or...

I would re consider. I run a private independent bike shop in Cheshire, in a pervious life I managed a hifi shop or two in the 90s. I think at her height 650b wheels and a custom frame that allows for zero toe overlap would make the world of difference - trek indeed are one of the few mass...

I have kabers with 3 x lk100s and I have just started picking some Klouts up, as an upgrade, does the 6100 work with the Kaber active cards? Did not consider a later linn amp to work with the kaber

Yep. The black ones are specific to the Klouts. If u wish to part with them let me know.