Some time ago I mentioned flogging the hifi and getting some cheap 'active'/powered speakers for the telly and a pair of B&W MM-1s for my computer.
Demo'ed the MM-1s and they were great (just as WHF said they were). Thought long and hard and almost bought them. on impulse. two weeks ago (but shop didn't have stock on the day and were not planning to order any).
Even longer ago, I had a plan to get some Harbeth P3ESRs but every time I arranged getting a demo (well twice actually) something financially 'distracting' crashed into my plans so I have concluded that that idea was jinxed!
At the weekend I got a Sony BDP-S370 for £99 and it solved the whole.."BBC iPlayer TV only on computer screen" problem and has diluted the need for MM-1s somewhat.
So plan C (I think) is the Naim UnitiQute for £1350 with my existing N-Sat speakers. Just have to wait for it to be launched, then try it out (hopefully at home) then flog everything else.
Nothing too radical then. It will still be Naim, it will still be the same colour, it will be less powerful (never needed the volume above 9:30 anyway so that won't matter) and it won't have a CD player. (Good.) It will be in one half-width Naim box so only one sixth* of the current system's ugliness (also good) and will have a tiny fraction of the current system's cables (doubleplusgood) with just mains cable. speaker cables, optical and ethernet. It will consume less electricity.
So Naim, where is it?
*One seventh the ugliness if you count the Beresford, which the UnitiQute would also replace.
Demo'ed the MM-1s and they were great (just as WHF said they were). Thought long and hard and almost bought them. on impulse. two weeks ago (but shop didn't have stock on the day and were not planning to order any).
Even longer ago, I had a plan to get some Harbeth P3ESRs but every time I arranged getting a demo (well twice actually) something financially 'distracting' crashed into my plans so I have concluded that that idea was jinxed!
At the weekend I got a Sony BDP-S370 for £99 and it solved the whole.."BBC iPlayer TV only on computer screen" problem and has diluted the need for MM-1s somewhat.
So plan C (I think) is the Naim UnitiQute for £1350 with my existing N-Sat speakers. Just have to wait for it to be launched, then try it out (hopefully at home) then flog everything else.
Nothing too radical then. It will still be Naim, it will still be the same colour, it will be less powerful (never needed the volume above 9:30 anyway so that won't matter) and it won't have a CD player. (Good.) It will be in one half-width Naim box so only one sixth* of the current system's ugliness (also good) and will have a tiny fraction of the current system's cables (doubleplusgood) with just mains cable. speaker cables, optical and ethernet. It will consume less electricity.
So Naim, where is it?
*One seventh the ugliness if you count the Beresford, which the UnitiQute would also replace.