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Frankly, if you'd ever used a Sooloos, you wouldn't say that. Sure the ksystem has the potential to be as good or better than sooloos in the same way that my son has the potential to be as good or a better swimmer than Michael Phelps. Could it happen? Sure, though since he can barely swim, it isn't likely. And, in truth, if the ksystem were only as good with music as it is with movies, that might be enough. Sooloos is so far advanced from that its amazing. In a bizarre way, kscape is lucky because for all the troubles that the lawsuits has caused them, there has been a huge benefit as well: no one else has dared openly market a competitive product. One probably doesn't need the extensive ability to find and arrange movies that Sooloos provides for music, but I think that if Meridian were able to add movie capability to the Sooloos's amazing facility to get at and into your music, it could be real competition. But maybe not. Kscape was designed by movie fans and it has an incredible interface for dealing with movies. Sooloos was designed by music fans as a way of getting deep into one's music collection. Two different things. The swim and focus features allow you to discover your music in new and different ways -- I've discovered dozens of songs on disks I already own but never listened to using those features.It is unfortunate that you had to spend 10K when the ksystem has the potential to be as good or better than sooloos, hopefully k will wake up and upgrade music to be competitive with sooloos.
What software tweaks would you recommend then?
As for the sonics, I will tell you that K doesn't make it easy but if you use either the coax or toshlink outputs you will get bit for bit accurate performance.
I don't think I know anyone whose bought a K system because of the music capability. While its nice to have, and Im glad to have it, the big draw I think is the video side.
I I also have a m-300 Player back to back with a Linn Klimax DS. The Klimax is playing in another league.
Best thing would be, if you could use the nice K-Scape System to stream to the Linn flacs, wave ans MP3. I am really waiting for something like that. I would even pay a premium for that feature, because I hate the Twonky Media Server Stuff.
I totally agree. A big downside of the Kscape is that you cannot do a search by song title. Many times you know the song title but, especially with compilations, you don't know where to find it. I often use my iPod to search a song, then go to my Kscape to play it.This may belong in another forum, but one of my problems with K's music is that it is very tedious to get to when I'm trying to 'surf.' I have a Kscape player in my exercise room, for example, but when I want to listen to music, I find that my iPod is much easier to move around on to find songs than the Kscape is. It is tough to go through my library to find songs, unless I have created some playlist before-hand....