naim-bashing (?)

Posted by: Uwe Supper on 16 August 2001

Hi guys,
have you ever tried to mention 'naim' on another (general) hifi-forum? What where the reactions? I happened to do so on a German-speaking hifi-forum and got slandered. 'Too expensive, boring sound, old-fashioned conncections, ...'. When I tried to explain that MY ears had preferred the naim sound to most other competitors, I was told that I should learn how to listen correctly - in a very direct language!
Thank God manners are usually of a higher level on this forum.
Cheers
Uwe

Posted on: 17 August 2001 by Uwe Supper

Jason,
you should have read the responses when I mentioned that I use Shahinian - according to some these seem be to be the worst speakers on this planet. On the said forum some techies who seem to measure EVERYTHING just don't accept electronics/speakers/etc. which don't fulfill some weird standards. Theyn also claim that all players sound the same, hence no need to spend more than 300 pounds on a player. Quite amusing.
Cheers
Uwe

Posted on: 17 August 2001 by Thomas K

Uwe,

Can you post a link (I need a laugh)?

Thomas

Posted on: 17 August 2001 by Rico

Hi Uwe, nice to hear from you! It seems we do measure up for politeness here after all!

I vote that Mr Jason Hector should win (hifi) pun of the week snappy for:

quote:
Naim and Linn have a mission

. Nice one!

Rico - Save the Kans!

Posted on: 18 August 2001 by NigelP

You really should point us all to this one. The discussion going on with "New members on the forum" sounds like a walk in the park compared to this.

Nigel

Posted on: 18 August 2001 by ebirah

...where's the link? I'm evangelical about Shahinians since they ousted my SBLs. I want to jump in!

Steve

Posted on: 18 August 2001 by Thomas K

Nigel, Ebirah,

die Frage ist, werdet ihr's verstehen?

Thomas

Posted on: 18 August 2001 by Andrew Randle

Andrew

Andrew Randle
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Posted on: 18 August 2001 by Alco

Na klar werden wir's verstehen, Thomas.

Ich meine,so schwierig kan's doch nicht sein,nah

Ich bin sehr neugierig wie es bei euch zu geht auf einer HiFi-forum.

Nah,wie war das,fur einen beginner im Deutscher sprache ?

Und ab geht die post

Sorry, guys. just had to do it.
btw: there's also a forum in Holland,where I can be found sometimes. It's called www.hear.nl

But it's full of round-earth folks though.
(as expected ofcourse)
This week I got a 'tip' from a Dutch forum-buddie to move my Kan's into the room,cause he thought the were way to close to the back wall...

well, I can't blame him,since most speakers do perform best in free space.

Greetings,
Alco.

Posted on: 19 August 2001 by Uwe Supper

Here we are:
if you want a good laugh, try www.hifi-info.de (forum, Erfahrungen). Remarks about naim don't stem necessarily from the last two months, what I was saying in my first post covers the last year or so (I am not sure you can go back this far on the said forum, in any case I don't post nor read any more).
Have fun
Uwe