Linn setup wizard

Players).The rest was, for a while, a bit of a puzzle, though, for a rather unfortunate combination of reasons: considerable complexity, unclear instructions and an apparent misapprehension by Linn that the unit is easy to understand.SETTING UPBeing a know-it-all, I of course quickly ran into problems. I plugged everything in and switched on the system, and nothing much happened. I pressed a few buttons for inputs and managed to get a Blu-ray player playing and producing sound, with its image being cast up on the TV screen. But I couldn’t get any on-screen menus up for setting up the unit.This, it turns out, was a futile exercise anyway since the unit has no on-screen menus (it passes through HDMI video without any processing). Being unsuccessful, I checked the box for the manual, but could only find the safety instructions. This, it turns out, was also a futile exercise, since the unit has no manual.But the linn.co.uk/go/kiko website was prominently printed on the unit’s carton so I went there. This site made it clear that the first step was to download and install a setup wizard. This I did (about 80MB in total, including the latest version of the Microsoft .NET framework) and I ran it. Now remember, this wizard runs on your computer (there are Windows and Mac versions), not on the unit. It guides you step by step through the process and at various points communicates with the unit over your network.It tells you how to stick the rubber feet on the unit, insert the batteries into the remote, plug in the speakers (using hefty cables terminated in professional audio style Neutrik Speakon connectors) and plug in the power.Then it tells you to switch on the unit and, after a moment, hold down the hash key to produce an

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Famed analogue audio component manufacturer Linn has embraced the digital audio revolution. Stephen Dawson looks at the Kiko network audio system to see if the company has kept up.The UK hi-fi firm Linn made its name back in the 1970s as a major participant in the push that led to the importance of the turntable being recognised. Until then it had been somewhat dismissed, with most of the focus on loudspeakers when it comes to quality sound. But Linn rightly pointed out that without a decent signal to begin with, a speaker couldn’t sound good.And Linn had its much heralded Sondek turntable available to provide just such a high quality signal.Since then digital has come to dominate the audio world, and Linn has not been left behind. In addition to its traditional analogue products, it offers a range of digital streaming devices. One such is the unit here under consideration, the Linn Kiko system.WHAT IS IT?This is a four piece system consisting of two smallish loudspeakers, a remote control and a central control box with built-in amplifiers. Two speakers, but four amplifiers. The tweeter and the bass driver in each loudspeaker are separately amped, with the crossover handled actively by the main unit’s electronics.So what does all this do? The purpose of speakers and amplifiers are clear enough, as is the remote control (it has input selectors, volume controls and such).The functioning of the central unit was not immediately clear, however. Oh, some things were obvious. It has three HDMI inputs and one HDMI output, for example. You can also feed audio to it via digital optical and coaxial audio inputs, plus analogue stereo on the rear panel using standard RCA sockets, and analogue stereo on the front using a 3.5mm socket (useful for ad hoc plugging in of MP3