hydra £3.50

Knowing how to build one, taking the time to build one properly, checking it meets safety standards and ensuring customers are happy with it - £76.50. So an asking price of £80 for a 3 head hydra seems reasonable to me.

I built a reporting system for a corporate customer last year and my company charged a considerable amount for it (not much of which came my way) - but the Apple Software Developers kit that I used to build it was free and yet both parties seemed happy with the end transaction -

I agree with ROTF
The thing works and £80 then seems quite reasonable. There is nothing dirty about making money!
I guess even Naim comes out on top!

Happy easter
Rickard

I hope you know what you're doing safety wise. Also, any problems arising will not be covered by your NAIM warranty.

You need to bear in mind that Grahams have to buy the Naim leads for about £10 each, as well as the plug, cable and other odds and ends, so they actually make hardly anything once the labour is taken into account.

Let's not imply profiteering as nothing could be further from the truth. The hydra is a great product at an incredibly reasonable price.

Nigel

the implication was never that £80 inc buying the leads was dear from grahams
but as the leads were there and a bank holiday
and seems to work with sound
its double insulated and then protected with a plastic tube...

quote:

Originally posted by sjw:
heat shrink insulating £1.50
insulating tape £1.50
50pence worth of solder
3/4 on kitchen table

= Tracy Island? Or just a pile of sticky-backed plastic (don't eat the lead, children).

As stated above - no leads, no extension cord, no plug, no labour - shock horror, no profit. And, having seen some examples of "home soldering", a distinct possibility of no improvement.

My home-brew hydra has no solder (I don't know if it is beneficial to be honest), and is based around a B&Q junction box.
It required no more skills than wiring a plug.
It is soon(ish) to be housed in a Naim case.
Electricity is perfectly safe provided (a) you can tell what colour the wires are and attach them to the correct terminals, (b) you make sure no wires of different colours touch each other and any bare metal that somebody could put their finger on is connected to earth, (c) you have a fuse in place.
Personally I don't like the soldered joining of cables wrapped in insulating tape approach (hence the junction box), but that is my thing I guess.

The above aside SJW did you hear any improvement with your Hydra?

Nick

quote:

heat shrink insulating £1.50
insulating tape £1.50
50pence worth of solder

My Hydra cost 0$.

It's called putting several leads onto 1 3pin mains plug.

yes but hard to descibe - a general improvemnt in terms of clarity and prescence with same disc left in cd5x .

i think it gets harder to tell differences when it comes to changes like this as the quality of production by different artists varies by more than the difference these smaller tweaks may make. there also seem to be several variables and what your room is like and how well placed speakers which are probably more important . i'm using naca but not the naim plugs yet which is the next tweak i suppose.
whether bought or made very carefully i think its a good one to do and relative to the cost of boxes a minor. All the bits were here so i soldered and then used heat shrink insulating tube then insulating tape then encosed the whole think in a platic tube to protect it. i'm going t keep trying it and may well buy the grahams one .It wasn't really a cost issue just convenience.

I may try this myself but use a mains cable from the 13 amp plug to the hydra section. This in theory should provide less of a bottle neck compared to having all Hydra's going through a relastively small cable. I will also do the same as you with regard soldering and protection.

I didn't read your posting as a solely cost issue at all......

Thanks for replying

Nick

quote:

Originally posted by prowla:

It is soon(ish) to be housed in a Naim case.

And I will be walking around in a prowla mask.

quote:

Originally posted by Adam Meredith:

quote:

Originally posted by prowla:

It is soon(ish) to be housed in a Naim case.

And I will be walking around in a prowla mask.

Now that would be worrying!