petewilson

Quick news in case it's interesting to others: I have Roon running on a Mac Mini. This hooks by SPDIF to a bought-used NuForce AVP-18, which lets me connect up all digital sources and sinks (including HDMI) and use a remote. All analogue sources are A/D's - the Linn by the PS Audio Phono Converter, the FM tuner by some el-cheapo ($20 or so) ADC. All feed into the AVP-18, as do the Oppo 105 and the Dish Networks box. This drives a MiniDSP DDRC-22D. This is a fairly flexible Dirac Live room/speaker correction box. As others have noted, Dirac-ing the Kii's doesn't produce much of a difference (it does with my previous B&W first-gen 800D's, and my Celestion SL600Si's). But the box does have Apple silver remote capability - you can change volume with the Apple remote. So I don't need the Control - except that the MiniDSP limit stuff to 96KHz/24. Dunno that I'm missing much, though. And, yes, despite the Kii's being just a tad larger than the Celestions (these are old British things, like me) they play louder, go deeper, and offer up more detail and better imaging. But it's still surprising how good the Celestions are (or how deaf I am).

Alas, no magic. It's a dual-layer disk and so one simply rips the CD layer.<br /> The SACD layer remains impenetrable.