After reading the German review ref'd earlier in this discussion In my view, The Linn Klimax DS looks like a seriously flawed product, the architecture is a far cry from what you would expect from a statement product today.
There's no remote included, I have never heard about a player for the last 20 years that does not inclue a remote... seriously? You have to pay extra for a remote to a 15.000 product There's no digital in/out, this strongly compromises the flexibility of the player, although it would be madness to use an external dac, but restrictions imply You cannot add DSP based room correction in any way, ever. PERIOD. - You cannot ever create an active system with digital X-overs ever. PERIOD. - What if you have a CD player that you want to use, there's no digital in, sorry ! No MP3 support whatsoever! Even if I only use flac, the ubiquitous mp3 will always be there, and I guess everybody also got something in mp3 format. It would be nice to use only one single player.... Not so with the Scottish products. You have to use another player, or convert the mp3's. Not a big thing, but a network player without mp3 support !!! At 7.5 times the price of the Transporter, it hardly betters the performance.... And the Transporter is much much much more flexible.... (I reckon in the US, the price difference will be even more) I only wish the transporter would support 192KHz / 24 bit. I would never ever consider the Linn, even if I had a million dollars, it's just a couple of $10 DAC's in an insanely expensive inflexible packaging This is a crap product that doesn't live up to what consumers deserve today, although it looks very nice. You could hire a mechanical engineer to create a titanium chassis (or what about pure gold) in one single block for the transporter, and have something that looks better? and still being way cheaper.... Regards Harald N -- haraldo ------------------------------------------------------------------------ haraldo's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=13472 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=38815
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