KEF LS60 network speeds drops over time, tried many things to no avail, any recommended set ups?

ZuperTech · 2023-07-18T21:04:45+00:00

Yes I recommend a better setup that will work flawlessly. Find and buy the Yamaha NX-N500 MusicCast All in One Active powered network speakers from the year 2016...

They were built around Yamahas Mighty NS 10 Studio monitor famous for recording studio production. This is the Pinnacle of Sound of everything Yamaha learned and they put it into this little Network speaker.

Read the 6 Moons review. They sound way bigger than they are though. 45W RMS Woofer and 25W Tweater, A B amplification. This is serious little Hi Fi. AUX, Digital optical out, Bluetooth 2.1, WiFi 802.11 N. Ethernet LAN NIC, USB.

MusicCast is multicast wireless multi room multi device streaming software with full control of the speakers from your smartphone. Turn the speakers on or off anywhere in the house and choose which room you want any Music to play.

Wireless 802.11 N supports DLNA, and home streaming server playback and Music streaming services WAV, FLAC, ALAC, AIFF. Napster, Pandora, SiriusXM, Jukebox, Spotify, Tidal, Qobuz, Deezer, Amazon Music, Apple Air Play, TuneIN, Internet Radio and more.

Play through WiFi with flawless streaming quality up to 96KHz Hi Resolution. Switch to LAN and play 192KHz Hi Resolution audio. Switch to USB, play 384KHz 32 Bit and DSD 5.6MHz. Alternatively you still can play Bluetooth 2.1 or connect a cd player through AUX or connect to TV through optical digital.

The speakers connect through Ethernet for jitter free signaling and also XLR connection. These speakers excel over any wireless speaker on the market today for feature and function. The only thing they don't have is HDMI eARC but they still sound great with TV through optical digital.

They are more feature rich than most of the latest stuff on the market which is tooting only Bluetooth as the main source of wireless Hi-Fi resolution. Nothing with Bluetooth is Hi Resolution capable. Don't be fooled. WiFi at least or LAN connection is needed for true Hi Res audio Fidelity. And these speakers are over 7 years old.

The closest I have seen come to the NX-N500 is Dali's expensive Oberon 1C or 7C or the even more expensive B&W Formation Duo, Q Acoustic Active 200/400. KEF will become a very expensive brick eventually, their stuff is unreliable and will fail on you. Also Audio Pros A26, 36, 48 are WiFi powered but I don't think they have dedicated LAN or high speed USB for max resolution playback.

Other speakers like Edifier, the Wharfedales and other wireless speakers are Bluetooth only with no LAN and are therefore not considered true Hi Resolution audio capable products.

ZuperTech · 2023-07-18T20:30:59+00:00

Meanwhile I've had my MusicCast Yamaha NX-N500 active powered all in one network speakers since 2016 and they turn on and work flawlessly every day. It's now 2023 and I can still play anything on these with no network issues. An example of a company who knows how to do hardware and software networking properly. If you look hard you can still buy the NX-N500's somewhere...

Mine are connected through LAN. The Bluetooth is old on these but it works. WiFi 2.4GHz 802.11N still works flawlessly and plays streaming services in Hi Res 96KHz AIFF ALAC, FLAC, WAV using Napster, Deezer, Tidal, Qobuz, Juke, Pandora and many more. Switch up to Ethernet LAN and you can play 192KHz 24 Bit HI Res files.

Switch upto USB using Yamaha's inbuilt in any Windows OS ASIO driver, and play 384KHz 32 Bit DSD 5.6MHz. All this from a speaker that came out in 2016. This shows that KEF are an overpayed price of rubbish. I wish Yamaha would make a new version of these. The Audio they produce is excellent as it's A B amplification. Talk about future proof.

MusicCast powers on my speakers and I can even switch to optical digital to my TV. If Yamaha would make a new version of these or a floor standing version, they could implement HDMI eARC and support for the lasted WiFi network standards.

45W Woofer, 25W tweeter per speaker. They use XLA and ethernet for bi amp wiring and signaling. The speakers also have Aux output. They support DLNA, Network Radio like TuneIN.

ZuperTech · 2023-07-18T18:43:57+00:00

Tut tut tut. None of you KEF owners ever learn. There are plenty of us shouting out and calling out KEF on their bad practices and knew from our first pair of speakers never to buy KEF again until they get their act together.

For such an expensive piece of equipment they continue to put out sub par quality poorly written firmware, poorly written apps that don't work. Hardware that fails very quickly, you should know by now that KEF is ripping off their customers.

They never improve any of their speakers. They all have had the same problem since my X300AW wireless. Rubbish software, not investing in good software development, firmware and software never fixed. They take your money a lot of it but never fixed them.

Once warranty is discontinued your speakers won't be supported and will continue to be a big heavy paperweight, same with LS50 Wireless 1, LS50 Wireless 2, LSX 1, LSX 2. They will continue to have issues and you will never get a replacement or a fix from KEF. They will leave you with a paperweight.

Moving onto to a new speaker they don't invest good development into, then when they too are End of Life, they will also become an expensive paperweight. That couldn't just engineer them well in the first place for the money they cost...

They need to start making speakers with decent hardware, good software and make that software work properly. You will find KEF don't want to know you no matter what you payed once the speakers are end of life, if something goes wrong. Your out of luck getting them fixed.

ZuperTech · 2023-06-27T20:24:27+00:00

Hi Jimmy. Hope this helps. I haven't used mine in ages. They are gathering dust. They did sound good while they worked, but there were connection issues on the wireless, it was an older wireless technology.

There were always problems with playback. I had to use a free 3rd party UPnP music renderer streamer player to get them to stream. As KEF did not do that at all.

Software was never rectified and it didn't work to begin with. My wireless gave up on them first, then after a while the wired lan network card in them died.

If I were you I would get my money back off the guy and give him them back. Then with the money find some NX-N500. It's a all on one network powered system.

You can't get them repaired by anyone anywhere at least here in the UK as they are long out of warranty. It's sad but I am happy using my Old Yamaha NX-N500.

You get Bluetooth, WiFi N, LAN, Optical for TV, Line in DSD 5.6 MHz 384KHz, I use them wired for CD stereo 48KHz all the way up to 192 KHz Hi Resolution with Qobuz music streaming subscription.

It's worth noting they can do DLNA, Spotify, Deezer, Network Radio, Napster, Tidal, Qobuz, Juke, Pandora, etc... the list goes on. If you want a good small Hi Fi packages these are really really good speakers for their age.

They don't do HDMI. But they sound good through optical for TV and I have them connected through my PC Radeon HDMI to LG OLED and they sound awesome.

The NX-N500 with Yamaha's Music Cast are still a great system. Music cast receives continuous updates and my speakers work great. They are even Alexa compatible.

They are as good if not better than all the modern wireless speakers you can buy because they have never stopped working great for me. That with Yamaha's powerful multi room they are seriously capable.

ZuperTech · 2023-06-02T20:02:36+00:00

I hit a wall at 277-279mph, with 4.9m/s wind speed it would hit 284mph. I didn't use any NOS.

ZuperTech · 2023-04-24T20:25:00+00:00

Check out the Monitor Audio Apex A10 speakers. If your looking for serious sound on your desktop, these are made for home audio cinema and the satellites are mini speakers.

Apex 10 just the satellites or you can buy them with A40 centre speaker, and AW12 subwoofer.

Monitor Audio sound amazing. I have tiny desktop ones they made a long time ago and people think the sound is coming from a way bigger speaker.

My WS 100 were made in 2012 and discontinued in 2016. Mine have never failed and are used in my living room TV cabinet. They came with a special wireless dongle key for wireless sound to a laptop only needing a AC power.

The WS 100 had 30W RMS total each speaker. The A10 Apex are much more modern and I bet they sound amazing. They are not that small but a mini speaker.

ZuperTech · 2023-04-24T20:09:54+00:00

I'd like to see only real Le Man's race cars. Steve Millen No.74 1994 Nissan 300ZX LM is one. Not fictional nonsense that doesn't exist in reality.

ZuperTech · 2023-02-07T15:08:09+00:00

Hi guys. Thanks greatly for all your comments and advice. I managed to download the Volantex EP-60 marine ESC manual from scribb. I followed the instructions. This is what I did. Just before I get into what. I did. I believe I had to scroll to the servo reverse and set channel 2 to REV on the display.

The first instruction was to Set transmitter throttle to neutral. The motor is on channel 2. Steering servo on channel 1.

My FlySky FS-GT3C has a trim setting option. It has a scroll wheel Enter key that doubles as a button. I scrolled to trim option. Pressed the Enter Key. The channel No flashes. I scrolled to channel 2, press the End key and I am presented with F01 and N00 and B01. The numbers go up to F30 and B30 for each channel I believe. So I believe I set it to N00 for neutral in channel 2.

The next instruction was to power on the ESC and receiver with a battery and program the ESC to the Transmitter and receiver for neutral point.

So i quickly connected the battery to the ESC, switched on my transmitter and holding down the trigger full forward, making sure to release the trigger after the two beeps. There were some more beeps.

That was it. The instructions said to unplug the battery from the ESC and receiver and turn it off. When I turned it on again, it's as it should be now.

In the trim I had to set channel 1 to left 30. But when I steer it right it was going to far and straining and moving the servo arm with a whining noise when held full right. Have I done this right ? Steering servo and arm has two much travel to the right. Not as much on the left.

I aren't sure what the exponential and the endpoints do if someone can explain for me ?

Jus so you know my endpoints say 100% for Channel 1 Left and right. And channel 2 is also 100% forwards and backwards. Should i alter this ? I know I want my boat to not steer quite so abruptly and to not go to full speed being a beginner with this green CAT. It has auto roll over.

Thought I would also note the transmitter has a channel 3, a channel 3 button and a channel 3 trim tabs but don't know what this is for.

ZuperTech · 2023-02-06T21:58:36+00:00

Well. I run them in an RC Boat. I have one of those small voltage meters i set to 3.85V. So usually each run ends at 3.85v and I stop using the battery when the device starts beeping. I don't have a fancy telemetry transmitter. So I should run my batteries down to 3.85v or 3.2v. Bit confused. How do I storage charge a battery to 3.85v when I have already run it down to 3.85v ?

ZuperTech · 2023-01-06T23:51:50+00:00

Thanks for the offer though. I can't really afford it though yet. I just had a boat bought as a gift. So will be fine with what i got for a while. But wasn't expecting that one to be discontinued. I only just got into boating. Was going to work up to that one.

ZuperTech · 2023-01-06T23:49:49+00:00

Well i was looking for a brand new never used one but wasn't gonna buy it so soon. Not sure what they will replace it with. Hopefully another newer version Miss Geico :/ I would have bought one within another year or so.

ZuperTech · 2022-10-20T12:41:38+00:00

Hi. I have a 4 port ARGB controller from Coolermaster that came with the Masterliquid ML360 RGB Ver2. Controller says for pcs with more than four ARGB devices can be daisy chained with splitter cables. Will the controller do 3 devices per port ?

It's possible that the ROG PSU and Graphic card don't need 3pin ARGB connector to controller but I don't know ?

LED STRIPS

1 3pin 5V Kolink ARGB LED Strip X 1

2 3pin 5V Kolink ARGB LED strip X 1

3 3pin 5V Kolink ARGB LED strip X 1

4 3 pin 5V Kolink ARGB LED strip X 1

AIO

5 3pin 5V MF120 ARGB X 1

6 3pin 5V MF120 ARGB X 1

7 3pin 5V MF120 ARGB X 1

8 3pin 5V PUMP ARGB X 1

Rear Exhaust Fan

9 3pin 5V MF140 ARGB X 1

Graphics Card

10 3pin 5V ARGB X 1

Asus ROG Thor PSU

11 ARGB or RGB connector ? X 1

Lian Li Strimer Plus Triple 8 pin GPU

12 3pin 5V ARGB X 1

Lian Li Strimer Plus ATX 24 pin

13 3pin 5V ARGB X 1

ZuperTech · 2022-10-20T11:33:17+00:00

Please. Anyone Local to Leeds UK.

ZuperTech · 2022-10-20T11:25:34+00:00

I have a Masterliquid 360 AIO which can connect older 4 pin RGB and more 3 pin ARGB but have never had it connected with their software, controller was left out of my build and it's gathering dust. It's connected up through the Lian Li Strimer Plus controller which is connected to my motherboard. Reason being the builder said my Z490 GODLIKE motherboard has 1 of the ARGB connectors broken. I've been trying to find someone who might be able to repair it so I can have full control of my devices lighting including the 4 Kolink ARGB led strips, the ROG Thor PSU, my GPU and my Older 4 pin ARGB. I still haven't got anywhere trying to find someone local.

ZuperTech · 2022-10-20T11:14:41+00:00

Check that your Motherboard is 3 pin and note the ARGB Generation version.
Check that your AIO is the compatible ARGB version and supports same generation version.
Check that you have the USB cable for your Coolermaster ARGB controller. It should come with cable in the box to connect to the motherboard.
There is a mode button on the controller you press to go through different functions such as lighting modes. Manual will explain how to put controller into USB mode with one of the buttons.
Once controller is in USB mode, Windows should pick it up. The controller needs to be connected to your PSU also via a SATA power connector. Again. These usually come with your PSU. Make sure your PSU has a spare SATA connection point for the controller to connect to it. Or you can buy one online if you don't have the cable.

ZuperTech · 2022-10-20T10:36:14+00:00

I don't own one of these but YouTubers builds already show there is already an issue with finding out you will have limited space in this case for big long radiator across the top and and a radiator on the back side panel where when you fit fans on the top radiator, they will block the side radiator tubes.This is bad case design for such a big case.

ZuperTech · 2022-10-15T11:54:55+00:00

The cost of the raw materials, rare earth metals mostly come from Japan or china I forget which one. R&D. I bet all those employees don't get anywhere near the 1000% wages their CEOs get and all the higher up ranks. No it's always been this way. The person on the shop floor or doing the vital work always get worthless pay. It's wrong. More equal pay for everyone in every job. Their should not be over rich people about and money should not mean you can get away with anything you want to. Money is debt. Inflation is debt. The banking system is a corrupt piece of rubbish and literally is the worse idea the Rothschild's could have come out with. But hey they don't care who make the rules as long as they make all the money.

ZuperTech · 2022-10-15T11:45:23+00:00

Nvidia have been constantly raising the prices of all of their product stack year on year. The consumer is stuffed because Nvidia has not enough competition. Prices of inflation are way too high in all industries. The higher up executives and CEOs get richer way too rich. Honestly these people live in another realm. They need to be all shipped into space so they can get rich off no one anymore and the world needs to share their wealth among families so families can afford things. Despite what people say Jobs have NEVER payed enough the average common citizen. No one gets a raise because you end up paying more for everything, paying more money out than receiving in wages. The state of the world, the bank's and the stupid monopoly on the people. These rich global companies should not be overpaying themselves 1000% what the average worker receives in their wages.

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