Kii Three - my impressions and pro reviews

[Ken Moran]

My Kii Control firmware is v0.3, and in the 2 years I’ve had my Kiis, I’ve never had any communication from them as to available upgrades.   Weird.  

[Ken Moran]

Thanks everyone, so it looks like there’s a few different firmware versions out there.  Hopefully, the upcoming Kii Updater will allow us all to upgrade to the latest version in one step, regardless of our current version. 

[Ken Moran]

Just arrived home to see this.  That section of the website seems to have been taken offline! Must be quicker next time!

[Ken Moran]

5 minutes ago, ragwo said:

Thanks a lot! 

Getting a 404 error when I click on this link.  Page not found. Anyone else seeing this?

[Ken Moran]

3 minutes ago, Yellowspider said:

Yes, it´s down.

Thanks. Thought I was going mad ....! Ah well, will wait a while longer. 

[Ken Moran]

34 minutes ago, Yellowspider said:

Yes, it´s down.

Thanks. Thought I was going mad ....! Ah well, will wait a while longer. 

 

2 minutes ago, ragwo said:

I still have access to the site. 

It’s back again. Downloaded Updater, it recognised I have 2 speakers, crashed when I clicked on the app icon. Running Win 10. 

[Ken Moran]

3 minutes ago, phosphorein said:

Same result with MacOS Mojave...updater 1.09.

Thanks. I think I’ll hold off on this for a few days. 

[Ken Moran]

8 minutes ago, ragwo said:

That's might be the reason for Kii taking it down? 

 

Edit:

Tried to run the program as administrator? 

Good point, thanks. Will try this.  

[Ken Moran]

38 minutes ago, phosphorein said:

Makes no difference here as I was logged in as root and the app still crashed with a segmentation fault due to an invalid address (?).

Looks like it’s been taken offline again. 

[Ken Moran]

5 minutes ago, Rubysea said:

yes. they are apparently working on these new support pages with changing/updated content. So I assume they are in their final stages and maybe in a few days (before Christmas?) the support section is up and running with everyone being able to DL the lates FW.

Thanks.  Will try and remain patient.... 

[Ken Moran]

20 minutes ago, Rubysea said:

Currently FW updates seem to be possible again (for how long?)

Also again a newer version of the Update tool is available (v.1.1.0) and @atletico, it might fix your update problem? Probably worth trying again...

Just got an email from Tom at Kii saying that new version of Updater is now available, so maybe this is the production release?

[Ken Moran]

Just downloaded and updated successfully.  Haven’t had a chance to listen, other than to check that all is working.  Having said that, seems to be louder than previously, but that might just be my impression. 

[Ken Moran]

10 minutes ago, Yellowspider said:

In my KC the serial no. is shown as "0" 🤔

Same with mine. 

[Ken Moran]

15 minutes ago, atletico said:

This new version of the Update tool really did the trick . The Kii Control and my 3 year old Kii Three's now have the latest software and sound better than ever and also some dB louder on my Kii Control ref. volum levels in my living room..

This was however the first pair Kii Three speakers to arrive in Norway late 2016, serial no. 0416 and 0417 ( now says "0" in Kii Control )

Same here. Tom from Kii confirmed that there has indeed been a 16db boost that older speakers like yours and mine didn’t have.  Happy days!

[Ken Moran]

17 minutes ago, Blade1001 said:

So I'm assuming with all this, there is no way to update the Kii's without the Control in place?

 

I can't understand why they would make them this way when the Control isn't bundled with the speakers.

I’d contact Tom at Kii and ask. Must be some way to do this without the KC, given that the latter was released sometime after the speakers were.