Nait2 & Classik -- has anyone compared?

Posted by: JWinston on 21 January 2002

Have I lost it? Latest thought is to simplify further -- is this sheer insanity? Has anyone compared these? I'd keep the LP12 (please! I have limits) but obviously go to an external phono stage (currently using an Audionote transformer witht the Nait's MM facility).
The "thinking" here is I want a different tuner, I don't currently have a cd player, and I desperately need color in my life.
I'm tempted to buy one cheap (used or perhaps NOS of the non-multi-room ones) try it out, and I suppose I could always keep both and just use the tuner and cd.
But if someone can save me a whole lot of time and grief I'd appreciate. FWIW someone whose opinion I greatly trust (and former Nait user)told me the classik is the real deal. Bees in the bonnet.
Spkrs are and will be my old mk1 kans.
Will this get me banned from the forum? Will I start going on and on incessantly about the tune test?
Help me
John
Posted on: 21 January 2002 by Bob Edwards
John--

Nait 2 wins. Simple as that. The Classik is surprisingly good for packing so much into one chassis, however, the Nait is simply better.

I just received a Nait 1 and it is driving Kan 1s, which will soon become IBLs. Once the IBLs are here I will be quite curious to see how they work off my main sources.

Cheers,

Bob

Posted on: 21 January 2002 by Bruce Woodhouse
I have recently helped a friend set up a Classik system see (which includes some useful comments about them)

http://forums.naim-audio.com/eve/forums?a=tpc&s=67019385&f=48019385&m=7151929563

They are currently choosing some speakers (looking like Tukans) but I have heard it a few times and compared the CD section to my Rega Planet. I have never heard a Nait.

The Classik is a nice package for reasonable money and obviously you get a (fairly decent) tuner too but on a pure music front I found the CD section a bit too smooth and rather lifeless, especially with classical music. The first impressions were good but after a while I found myself not really excited by the music I was listening to. This is not to say it was terrible but f you are going to use the CD section a lot I think you may get more elsewhere.

Bruce

Posted on: 22 January 2002 by Thomas K
Just to complicate matters further: Linn is in the process of releasing the Classik Movie, a one-box DVD/CD player with (I think) five-channel amplification (just in case that's an option - I doubt it would beat a Nait musically, though).

Thomas

Posted on: 22 January 2002 by JWinston
Appreciate the responses. Sounds like a Planet and likely a different tuner are in my future. The comments re classical music were of particular interest -- that's really 95% of my listening now (and all on vinyl). When I can't find the performance I want on vinyl, or if I'm given a CD (there's a Xmas stack as yet unplayed) I really have few options at present, other than my discman at school, or my laserdisc player (I know I know) at home, and I HATE spending money on a cd player (the Classik seemed less offensive/easier to justify, given its other attributes).
Glad we nipped it in the bud. Many thanks.
John