Naim power cords

emyyl

I don't know what electrical system you use in China. Here in the UK, Naim's power cords are ordinary looking black flex with a white crabtree 3-pin plug on the end.

Many of us have tried aftermarket leads, usually with no success. All the leads do different things, giving more resolution or squashing the bandwidth, but none really works as well or as in balanced a fashion as the original Naim ones. Try to find them...

If you really can't find them your dealer can supply new ones. I think they cost about £10 in the UK. Far cheaper, and probably much better, than fancy aftermarket ones.

Nigel

Best in UK to use "hydra leads" made by Grahams HiFi in London. I have no idea what mains voltage you have in China, but check out the Grahams website in any event. I'm going to see Grahams on Friday, so if there's anything you'd like me to ask them on your behalf, do let me know.

Graham

Thanks everyone. The voltage here is the same as the UK. The plugs are the same as Australia's. Since the nearest Naim dealer is in another country - Hong Kong, I was hoping to buy the same quality cable as the original Naim cables from a local electrical store, provided I know what to specify, ie gauge, material spec etc. I have listened to Naim equipment demos by dealers other countries using after-market cables. Usually they sound too aggressive. Mine currently sounds a bit sluggish.

Hi

Here in New Zealand (same as Aus) it's recommended by the importer to stack the plugs one on top of the other. And they should be in the order of Power Amp first then Hicap then CDP. This apparently gives a better earth setup and sounds much better than multibox type connections. In this regard we in this part of the world have one advantage over our colonial parentage!

Cheers

Andrew

I think you need to ask your dealer anyway, I noticed that my CD5 main lead was reversing the phase, and not FC and NAIT5 one's.
My dealer told me that it was expressely done, and that it sound better that way.
Regards,
Axel

I think Hong Kong and China became one country a few years ago.

For some people, that was a result of over 150 years of struggle against drug dealers and their descendants.

(Travel between HK and the rest of China may be difficult, of course.)

Regards.

Phil

quote:

Originally posted by Axel F:
I think you need to ask your dealer anyway, I noticed that my CD5 main lead was reversing the phase, and not FC and NAIT5 one's.

Axel

This makes no sense to me. The Naim cable is perfectly ordinary domestic mains cable with brown connected to live, blue to neutral and green/yellow to earth. To suggest it does something to the phase is at best ingenuous (I mean utter bollocks).

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ingenuous

Rockingdoc,
If you look at the plug in you wall, earth down, the phase is on the right side,
Then if you plug the main lead in it and if you check the phase at the end of it (the end you plug on the black box), earth down, the phase should be on the right again.
This is the case for my FC2 & Nait5, not for the CD5 main lead, phase is on the left.
According to my dealer these are Nain standart cable.
Did you test it on your's or do you just "supose" it is ingenuous ?

Axel

But anyway, the sound is great.

Axel

If you by phase the live wire (the one that cycles thorugh +-240V) then I find it hard to belief that naim would resort to switching the live with neutral in the lead and not do it inside the box. It also stricks me that this could be an major issue with respect to safety, the internal fuse will be on the live cable which is supposed to eliminate the CD from the mains if it blows.

If by phase you mean the 50/60Hz frequency of the mains signal you can't adjust this by switching wires.

Suggest some clarity from Naim at this point would be advisable.

Matthew

"Phase" is Continental speak for "live". Normally, the lower of the three pin receptacles at the equipment end of the mains cable should be live; in the UK, where you can only plug the wall end one way, it will end up being so (provided the cable is made up correctly).

In France (and Germany), we only have two pins at the wall end, so depending on how you insert the plug you actually *can* end up connecting live with either the middle or the top pin at the equipment end (don't know which it will be). This is not going to hurt your amp and it's perfectly safe, but it might not sound as good (your average engineer will say this is impossible, though).

Perhaps the cable was just a duff? Best consult your dealer, Axel.

Gents,

Thanks for your comments,

Thomas, in France we have both kind of plug, the one I am using is like UK one, so just one way to plug it.

I checked the phase with a phase detector screw driver, myself, and I am shure about the fact that on the CD5 the phase is not the lower of three pin receptacles.

I already asked my dealer, but may be I should ask Naim directly about that (Adam, help !!)

Axel