On the right pane shown is list of random songs which will be played, with the plugin, you can even rate your songs.
Another closer view of Krell KAV-400xi integrated amplifier
The top device is Slim Devices Squeezebox V3 (SB3) (visit its website at
http://www.slimdevices.com/ for more details), SB3 is a network music media player which can be connected wireless (wifi) or wired (ethernet cable) to transmit your music in digital format.
Most of my music collections in CDs had been ripped and stored in my 160GB external hard disk in lossless music format, i.e. FLAC, WMA lossless. My music is transmitted via wi-fi to this SB3 and its audio output is connected to amplifier via interconnect cable. This SB3 relied on its software called SqueezeCenter (SC), it will manage your music ripped in a well sorting manner, i.e., artist, album, genres, years. There are also lots of third-party plugins can be attached with SC which make this SB3 more fun. This software allows me to select my favorites music based on either artists, album, genres and play them randomly over my audio system, in short, it's like a music jukebox and play my music 24/7.
The bottom device is Cambridge Audio 540C V2 compact disc player. Though most of my time, my music are played via SB3, occassionally i will still listen to this fascinating CD player.
This is rear view of Krell, it looks messy with speaker and interconnect cables. The white color cables is Chord Carnival Silver Plus single-wire speaker cable, the orange color cable is Van den Hul the Source interconnect cables connecting between Krell and CD player, the green color is cable Audioquest Copperhead cables connecting between Krell and Slim Devices Squeezebox, network music player.
Top front view of Krell KAV-400xi integrated amplifier. You can see top louvres with heat-sink inside, the louvres is to allow heat to be dissipated and released. Beware of this razor sharp louvres from touching. Though some audio review said that this amplifier will get very hot, but i don't feel it, just a little hotter than my previous amplifier, but you need a well ventilation. The most important point is it delivers a nice, sweet sound system.
A close look at rear of Sonus Faber Concertino Domus , italian made bookshelf speaker. In this picture, you can also see Chord Carnival Silver Plus speaker cable (single wire) with banana plugs connected to speaker terminals.
New Krell KAV-400xi , a 200W @ 8 ohm integrated amplifier with output impedance of 0.17 ohm joined in for my audio system last September.
The Krell has been runned in for almost 48 hours at the time of this post, the soundstage produced by this audio system is greated depth, details, neutral. I can hear a very defined music instruments based on various frequency range, position of music instruments (front left, front center, front right, middle left, middle center, middle right, rear left, rear center, rear right).
I really enjoy the music produced, i can listen all over again my music collection.
Arrival of new Toy, i.e Cambridge Audio DacMagic 3, it is an external Digital Analog Converter, convert digital signal (from CD player or digital streaming music) to analog signal, then amplified to speaker.
