Suggestion for Naim on demo of distributed clients

After a couple of years of waiting, and after a whole suite of clients and DAC, Naim has finally come up with a pure network client/DAC in the form of NDA, meanwhile like many others I have gone through numerous DACs and client and computer clients and have almost settled down in the form of a DAC plus Mac mini plus Amarra.

Having said that I am still very curious on the Naim alternative, especially the NDX which is Naim's version of the Transporter that we have been begging for.

But while I have full confidence on the comfort zone of the Naim sound, what I found with distributed clients is that the devil is in the user interface, which absolutely defines the ultimate user experience. A clunky client with 555 sonics would kill the whole experience.

Naim dealers are great in demonstrating to customers how to get good sound out of a Naim system, but when it comes to this new technology some of them are understandably like fishes out of water.

So to properly demonstrate the user experience I suggest either a flash video showing how the whole interface works. (iPhone, wireless remote, computer client, front panel or what naught), and/or mock up clients runnable on a computer to get acquainted with the interface. (e.g. Slim Devices used to have SoftSqueeze which is a 100% working computer client that emulates a Squeezebox.)

I think that would go a long way towards explaining what the Naim distributed experience is like.

The other thing that I am puzzled about is how the whole Naim client architecture work. Do each of those machines, (Qute, Uniti, HDX, NDX, Serve) share a common interface? Do they work together, and how? Being a “seasoned amateur” who has plowed through the quagmire of distributed audio, I have problem understanding the Naim architecture, I can only imagine someone new to this will be even more confused.