new wet dreams OR where is the next fort knox

WOW ;-)


On saturday the 8th, i got the chance to
hear a naim av system at s.g. akustic in
karlsruhe germany (www.sg-akustik.de).
Here i was invited by Ulrich Hohn
(customer of sg) to
join the happening and afterwards hear
a few notes at his place.

Stefan Gellrich, the owner of the shop arranged
some drinks in the entrance hall (also
non alcoholics, so that one could
concentrate to music, and have the drink
afterwords for cooling down.)

The presentet gear in this AV-Demo was
the cream of naims top end products.
The SL2 where used as front Speakers,
for the rear in this setup nbl's have
done a proper job. Thomas (naim germany)
brought also the new naim center along.
(The center is a real speaker ;-), not a tiny
hideable shoe box.)

There was also one BIG Sub (sorry don't remember
the brand), but stefan quoted that here a
1kW activ amp was pumping in the room. And
more then earthshaking volumes where possible.

Ok, Ok, up to hear it's not that spectacular,
beside the sl2, well known standard equipment ;-).
If one could call nbl standard speaker in each
livingroom.

:-) topping that, i can ;-)

The DVD-Source was an expencive rotel player, down
the chain, the av2 feeds a 175 for the center and
the rear speakers.
the sub was driven directly from the av2, here
using the sub out which (somehow actively???)
provides only the deep frequencies.And hell the
REALY deep ones.

increasing the curiosity ;-)

the av2 feeds with it's unity-gain output
a 552 ;-) there it's out ....
i saw and hear one in flesh. a real beast,
delivered with the flash remote control...

hey naim could i change my flash (from cdsII)
to a pair of sl2's.....(kidding, even
cdsII is out of budget).

the 552 feeds a nap500, kicking the sl2's.

Now imaging us listeneres sourrounded bye
this enormous power and light green shining
new naim logos (independed of whether i like
them or not, in the dark the new black
boxes show an unbeatable attraction...)

We looked at some movie parts, and heard
i thought it was abbc dvd, with for
example susan vega, shinnead o'conner....

Marvelous, this maybe is the new child wet
dreams of today. So even the 552 was only
used with the unity-gain input, in combination
with 500 and sl2 it was an amazing experience.
there was thath much more information available.
(like jump from 72->52)
For a few minutes (thanks to stefan) we heard
a cdsII feeding the stereo part.
CDSII directly connected to 552, for shure.

On the naim charlie haden and.... , sorry
forgot the rest. (Bass and piano, offered also
on vinyl from naim)
It shows a lot more details and flow then i ever
heard from this cd before.
The high frequencies and resolution out of that
where in another league. Even the nbl's don't do
that. (So here the 552 must be the origin for that.)

Stefan also (again with dvd) showed us earthshaking
levels and demonstrated how LOUD sl2's could go.
And that was not the MAX on the volume pot.
Gosh, frightening experience.
They figure the sl2's capable of 100W music capability,
but nobody talked about the db reachable with that.

Thomas also showed us the assembling of the sl2's,
realy much easier then sbl's :-).

***

Dear naim what about dividing the prices by a factor
of 2 ....

552 is in different league, a more or less shure
home dem at ulrichs place will show how it works
in domestic environment.
As a stereo pre alone, and feed with vinyl.

sl2's... if driven by such a power and pre a DREAM.
here i like to get a home dem for selling my sbls
afterwords :-(

Additional to make the best out of the presented gear,
it was put on naim fraim. (undiscussable one of the
best racks available out there)

hope you all enjoy music (much more with 552's but the 72
still is a great PRE ;-))))))) )

naim keep on going

Regards
-mb