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When should you upgrade your hi-fi? How to control ‘upgradeitis’
nopiano
Well-known member
Chebby was rather more, erm, direct than I might have been. However, it's a history worth reading about one day, and I think it starts with nicking somebody else's design...chebby said:
Glad you are now grounded, as it were!
Haha!nopiano said:
According to my wife I've been grounded for the last 18 years. She didn't see an issue.
Replied to my enquiry within one working day also naming grounding as a possible cause for issues. Great stuff!
insider9 said:
Their customer service is very good. Naim can also service almost everything they've ever made.
But then you read stuff on their site like "every Naim Audio interconnect is shaken 180 times by a custom-designed pneumatic production device affectionately named ‘The SNAIC Shaker’ by our technicians. Why do we do this? Because it improves sound quality". Snaic oil shaker, rather. Gotta keep the cult going, I suppose.
This has been Naim's stock reply to any question of the 'why do you do it that way?' type for about 30 years.
The earthing issue discussed on another recent thread is one such issue, there are plenty more.
One that comes to mind concerned the Armageddon power supply for the LP12. Housed in a HiCap sized case the single knob switched the power to the motor on and off, but the Naim logo did not illuminate when on (as it does on all other Naim components of the time).
When asked why there was no illumination to indicate that the unit was on, the answer was, as usual, 'because it sounds better'.
In fact, the real reason was that the Armaggedon was simply a transformer in a box, AC in, AC out, nothing else. There was no rectified power to provide a few DC volts to power the NADI board, an array of Leds tha illuminated the Logo when powered.
Hence no illumination.
The earthing issue discussed on another recent thread is one such issue, there are plenty more.
One that comes to mind concerned the Armageddon power supply for the LP12. Housed in a HiCap sized case the single knob switched the power to the motor on and off, but the Naim logo did not illuminate when on (as it does on all other Naim components of the time).
When asked why there was no illumination to indicate that the unit was on, the answer was, as usual, 'because it sounds better'.
In fact, the real reason was that the Armaggedon was simply a transformer in a box, AC in, AC out, nothing else. There was no rectified power to provide a few DC volts to power the NADI board, an array of Leds tha illuminated the Logo when powered.
Hence no illumination.
rainsoothe
Well-known member
newlash09
Well-known member
Glad your hissing issue got resolved. Can you please post your thoughts on the Naim once you've done enough listening. Especially with that Yamaha wxc-50 in the loop too, I'd be very interested 
Will do, Newlash09!newlash09 said:Glad your hissing issue got resolved. Can you please post your thoughts on the Naim once you've done enough listening. Especially with that Yamaha wxc-50 in the loop too, I'd be very interested
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