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If you want to hear something even better than CD, try some high resolution downloads. You will need a sound card that can handle 24 bit samples and preferably at least 96KHz sample rate to take full advantage, but even many integrated sound interfaces can do that now. http://www.hdtracks.com/ is a good place to start.

You have two more days to get the free high resolution holiday sampler from Linn: http://www.linn.co.uk/christma... Get it even if you're allergic to holiday music; most of the songs in the sampler have nothing to do with any December holiday.

When people are stopped being scammed by Sky/Phoney/Sony with this 3D TV the better. A hologram TV is not that far that far away. Sky Murdoch group still insist on selling you High Definition boxes with all the subscription fee's but are now going to force you into 3D TV. My advice is simple, do not pay for it. Here is a good example.... remember betamax video... it was elite but VHS took over. How many of you have updated your VHS collection to DVD? Now you have to replace all of it with Blu-Ray. In two years there will be 3D TV and blu-ray will be redunandant and you have to do it all over again, Stop being victims of technology, wasting your money and buying something you have already bought. Whilst I am am at it, remember CDs were supposed to take over Vinyl nice one SONY/BMG the instigators. I have a LinSondek LP12 turntable and good HiFi equipment and my Vinyl sounds better than any digital crap @44khz 44,000 snap shots per second. You just cannot have purity of sound unless it is analogue which is constant. Really I do not care what people say, if you know your stuff excellent. http://www.linn.co.uk/music_systems_sondek_LP12 it costs a damn fortune. /MOTD do not fall victim to these bastards! love NSN

Okay, I don't mean to be a dickhead. Lord knows people have trashed this thing enough. But as a web/graphic designer looking at the site, I feel I have to comment...

First, if you're going to have the "gigantic photograph" style of web design, for god's sake don't scale your photos up. It looks terrible, blurry, and amateurish.

Second, if you're also going to do the "lines" thing, for everyone's sake pick a program that can do decent antialiasing. Your lines looks like a pixel orgy on my LCD.

Third, as I know both of these elements seem to add up to "audiophile" site material (look at the Linn Audio site), which is obviously what you're going for, but even Linn knows not to make a site that requires 1024x768 maximized to view, especially since your software is Mac only. On the Imac I'm currently using, your "My Account" link looks like "My Ac".

Fourth, how about some real info on the product? I had to go through a few different scenes of your flash tour in order to find out that it could pull music from Mac and PC. Even if the playlist software is only for mac.

Fifth, on the Sonata Shots, please PLEASE at least blur the text you've overlayed on top to make it look like it's really part of the LCD. It's such an obvious photoshop job it's not funny.

Sixth, the icons you're using for the technical sheets for the thing are fuzzy and barely visible in the overall design. On top of that, putting the mouse over them doesn't reveal any kind of title or tooltip that would let a user know what they do. Really, just put the text somewhere, or at least make them a similar contrast to the text so we know they're important. They just look like more useless decoration.

And last, the "different colors for different buttons" thing usually points to a color scheme for the different parts of the site or at least some kind of relevance. It's a nice visual cue. But on your site the colors are just random. Nothing makes sense. They even repeat nonsensically between different sections.

The whole site reeks of imitation without understanding.

Honestly, do what you're going to do. Make your product. I wish you success. But spend some money on a decent graphics person if you're going for the high end like this. Especially if your product is mac only for the software side. ...and I'd start putting "Mac only" at the top of every page, or you're going to be getting a lot of returns.

flat earth is the opposite of round earth. flat earth audio manufacturers are british companies such as naim and linn. tubes are round earth. calculate your Flat Earth Points (FEP or your [tongue and check] Round Earth Points (REP

While this is nice, you miss the point. Records won't die because they sound in a way that digital does not. Generally, people don't believe this, but listening to a linn record player through some Cary tube amps and horn speakers is just a better sound experience, and one that digital can't tough yet. Horn speakers, by the way, is another thing the list missed.

VHS, on the other hand, deserves to die. Now. VHS is just evil.

There are other UK manufacturers who almost certainly assemble their own DVD players. These include Arcam and Roksan.

"ipod? ogg? bah! what you really want is a good turntable!"

Speaking of good turntables, for those who are not wanna be DJs and just want to listen to music, try the

Linn LP12

or the more afordable but still enjoyable Rega Planar line

To complete the gift for your geek make sure you include a small gift certificate to your local used record store

Also set aside an entire weekend of free time for him/her because that's what a music lover will need when faced with the staggering vinyl selection at Amoeba. Best of all, Vinyl can often cost a few pennies to a few dollers, far cheaper than CDs. And guess what, NO DRM!!! and NO extra money going to the RIAA (Assuming you are buying USED)

What geek wouldn't want to flip off the recording industry while enjoying a geeky vintage medium like Vinyl.

Vinyl does not sound better then CD, and many prfer the warm analog sound of vinyl to the harsh processed tinny sound of CD, but don't try to argue which is better, they are just different. Everyone has their favorites.

My Linn does not "rumble."

Re: Re:The little company that could: Linn!

linn.co.uk
classik.com

There are a few audio manufacturers out there who DO care for the music, and have little time for relying on graphs to tell the picture. If the most brilliantly engineered piece of technology doesn't sound right, it doesn't make it to market.

I guess Linn/Naim are the Apple(s) of the audio world, interested in projecting music, and the feel and emotion that go with it. So it's bollocks to trying to engineer sound waves according to some theoretical ideal, and wondering why it sounds crap.

I bought a Linn Sondek turntable in the early 80's and it's still going strong, sounds wonderful and upgrades are always available to bring it up to current manufacturing spec. You only need buy a Linn/Naim or similar system once, but because of this they are not cheap.

Linn

Naim Audio

Incidentally, Linn is based in Scotland and Naim in England.

I can only assume from the pricepoint ($1500MSRP, so $1000+ street price, at least initially) that the average MP3-laden geek is not the target market here. In fact, the pricepoint may be one of the things that allows this thing to avoid (at least somewhat) some flak from the RIAA and its gang of enforcers.

For an audiophile, this thing just might make some sense. First of all, the type of people who spend $300 on speaker wire are obviously not concerned with value per dollar. Second of all, such folks also cling to the ridiculous notion that the rotational stability of a CD is of key importance to audio quality, with typical ghetto-trash (read sub-$5000) CD players incapable of reproducing their music faithfully. For these folks, having a device that would play their music buffered from a hard drive (with the device stashed far away and connected with Monster Cable Ethernet would eliminate the need to worry about such things as spending thousands of dollars to isolate their hardware from any vibrations caused by their cat farting or toilet flushing. (That last link rules) :)

Seriously, a device that allows audiophiles to play their music from a non-CD platform, esp thru decent D/As, or even better, their multi-thousand dollar outboard D/As, would sell. The Linn Kivor, no doubt priced in the stratosphere, is one such example. My guess is that the SonicBlue DAC is about a tenth the price of the Linn.

Sooo, while I'm not going to rush out and buy one, I'd still say it may find a market with audiophiles.

From Linn Hi Fi: Check it our here. This is a bit heavy.

I'm not sure what the Linn discs are made of but they appear to have a hole for the spike too. Talk to your hifi dealer, they probably have something. Otherwise small scrap pieces of marble or slate might work pretty well.

Burris

These were probably worth quite a lot of cash. Quad still offer service for them, I think.

I listened to an NXT + sub combo when I got my Linn Keilidhs. Can't say that I thought there was much competition ;-)