I had a personal demo of the Klimax DS last week. It's all business. Ethernet only, no other inputs either. It relies on UPnP and comes with (or at least suggests you use) Twonkymedia. They built a very basic Linn GUI for a front end on a PC or handheld as the case for my demo. The Linn guy played a CD on the Unidisk 1.1 and then switched over to the Klimax DS. I can say they sounded slightly differently. I do think I liked the Klimax DS more, but the differences didn't exactly jump out at you. When the Unidisk played, I didn't think it needed improvement.
What it comes down to is that they needed an updated CD12 and decided to make it a network player instead. There's no way it's worth the $18,500 vs. the Transporter at $2k, but then I didn't compare them side-by-side either. The store owner said I could borrow it for a side-by-side if I wanted to. He was intrigued by the Transporter when he came over to setup my system originally. I don't know if I'll take him up on it because even if it is much better, I can't imagine buying one (vs. waiting for Transporter 2 or something). After all, it's basically a specialized PC with a DAC. We know there aren't many ways to make the PC part expensive, so the DAC is basically at least $18K of it. -- thomsens ------------------------------------------------------------------------ thomsens's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1352 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=38815 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
