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"The Linn Exakt system is only subtractive. It isn't possible to add a frequency bump anywhere between 10 Hz and 100 kHz. Darrin and I spent the most time adjusting for a single room mode. Surprisingly my room only had a single mode that needed to be adjusted. The optimization software suggested we should place a single large frequency dip of -18 dB at 33.78 Hz. Making adjustments was as simple as entering a value and listening. Darrin sat next to me and made changes to the gain of the dip on his MacBook Air while I had the iPad in hand ready to tap play as soon as a change was saved. We tried a few settings and settled with a -12.00 dB gain at 33.78 Hz" You can achieve this with an Anti-Node that costs under £200 and drive the subwoofer only as I do, leaving the other channels uncorrupted. My TagMcLaren AV32 that I no longer use in my main system has Parametric equalisation accurate to 1Hz and has both additive and subtractive capability and dates back to 2003! The other thing I don't like about this approach is inability to upgrade the DACs. I've changed DAC's every other years on average! Seems like a lot of compromise and cost to eliminate speaker cables.

Linn and Naim stand on the beach like King Canute while the analogue sounding DSD waves are washing at their feet! I decided to correct the room as much as I could and use digital correction for the subwoofer only, that way I can play DSD uncorrupted to the speakers. Many of the room correction systems don't work in hi-res - despite what their makers say, the AV amps downsample to 16/44 internally. I'm sure the Linn system mentioned here doesn't do that however.

I use electrostatics, which have no crossovers so suffer few of these problems! Linn's system is a way to tie you in to them. It allows no playing of DSD, which analogue or not to the speakers for me provides a more musical experience. And whatever your view of DSD, there is a lot of music that has been created in DSD or converted from analogue to DSD and I believe is best played back in that format rather than being converted again to PCM. And then there's the price!

I'm using the D-FI. It is much more detailed that the stock cable and no need for adapters. Click on the TERMINATION pull down to choose micro USB. As I don't have any other micro usb to compare it to I can't report on it's sonics, but it has been well reviewed in the Uk press. Vertere Pulse D-Fi review | Audio interconnects (digital) | Reviews | What Hi-Fi? Vertere Acoustics Pulse D-Fi V2 USB Interconnect Cable

Hello! Does anyone have any experience of the latest Samsung Blu-Ray drive the SE-506 CB - as the AB drive is now discontinued? This is for Blu-Ray audio ripping using DVDAE? I'm using Mac OSX Mountain Lion. I ordered an AB drive from Amazon but got a CB - they said no AB's available. Doe sit matter? Has the firmware been fixed to prevent the trick with DVDAE for example? Anyone tried it?