Naimnet Now Audible

Posted by: u5227470736789439 on 16 February 2008

Naimnet Now Audible

According to this thread, http://forums.naim-audio.com/eve/forums/a/tpc/f/48019385/m/2372901317, the first reported example is available to listen to!

This is brilliant news in my view, and the begining of something very important!

George

Posted on: 25 February 2008 by Signals UK

quote:
So if you have an Apple-formatted iPod you're stuffed? Well, that seems a bit pig-headed to me.

Can't help thinking that the iPod angle is a bit of a red herring. If you have your (own) Mac formatted Pod, then you have iTunes running on the computer and the Naimnet can read the files directly via ethernet. You might want to play music from a visitor's iPod, in which case it needs to be PC formatted.

If you want to take advantage of the NS01 becoming an itunes replacement, syncing music and using the 'ghost' MP3 files that it produces automatically, than the iPod is not going to be used with Mac based itunes anyway.

Sure, it's not quite a perfect situation, but not all that bad either. As for the price, it was hardly not going to cost more than the CD5X that it betters sonically. We are still awaiting our new demo CDX2 to find out by how much it is outclassed by the same-price CD player.

I'm beginning to feel sympathy for the Naimnet team. Oh stuff that, it is late, and they get a Bentley to pose in.

Posted on: 25 February 2008 by Claus-Thoegersen

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Originally posted by glevethan:
[QUOTE]Originally posted by David Dever:
the above mentioned review in Stereophile several times over and in fact the mentioned unit (Klimax DS) truly shines (according to the author) when fed higher bit FLAC files ("hi res"). Unfortunately, at present, there is little to no availability of said files. Who knows if there ever will be - consumers seem willing to settle for compressed MP3's at the moment.

Perhaps this could be a new source of revenue for the recording industry - re-releasing everything (again!) as higher res 24 bit downloads. They attempted to do this with SACD and DVD audio discs (unsuccessfully) so maybe the second or third time around will be the charmer.

Unfortunately I do not think that this will be happening anytime soon as it is one thing to release compressed MP3's stripped of DRM restrictions - and another releasing hi res studio master files sans DRM. Talk about file trading those babies!

With most people getting more and more download speed on internet connections, and by using something like bittorent I see no reason why I just could listen to lowbitrate samples online by the high res album and go to sleep or do something else while it is beeing downloaded. The problem really is that I personally want to have a possibility for several downloads when all my Hard drives suddenly are gone a few years down the line, so the trouble with drm has to be solved somehow.

Gregg