New Naim Muso anyone?

Am I the only one who does not understand the significance of

the sound control going to '11'..? 

California Jim

Probably :-)

Thanks, I didn't realise this was only an issue for CRT.

Thanks, It would be great if it can double up as a good sound output for my TV.

Although it"s still a ugly thing whatever the use  could be.

I had the chance to see and hear the MUSO Player at High-End in Munich last week. I do understand that at true high-end fan has a problem with this player. Nevertheless, after hearing that sound and playing the the new app it is quiet impressive. For all of us looking for some minor sound quality (depending on you loudspeaker) it is definitely an option. To get access to your whole music files you need to have a multi-room master device like SuperUniti, Qute. It is only a slave device for multi-room! Price point is planned for €1.075 and it will have a direct support for streaming services. The sales guy told me that it is not sure which service(s) will be supported because they are considering to add cd quality services like WIMP, Quobouz or similar.

The same guy did not confirm but expects that streaming services needs to be added to HDX, SuperUniti, Qute in Sep/Oct time frame.

It's cool and you will love it, too. Unfortunately, I have purchased Sonos for my kids a couple of months ago.

If you have a MacMini/HD/DAC system there's no problem playing your digital files via Airplay and it can all be controlled with an iPad or other IOS device. B&W and Sonos have had Airplay capability for years. I'm looking forward to hearing the Muso but wish it came in black and not just the silver finish.

Got to see and hear the Muso at K J West One in London on Wednesday. It dose not disappoint, Naim won't have any trouble shifting Muso 

I was also at Kj on wed.  Muso looked and sounded very impressive.

Except for the front cover which is curved to recall the Statement,

but instead looks distorted.  Not a good design choice, but with the

black cover this will not be so noticeable.  It really did sound great!

Talking with the Naim rep, they expect to shift 10,000 a year.

California Jim

Just Google Naim Muso.  The images show clearly the 'rippled'

curvature on the front cover.  It isn't flat.  It isn't symmetrical.

That's all I can say.

California Jim

I thought it was just the way the light hits it in the photos, can't wait to see one now! 

A completely pointless curve in the front grill. Doesn't that make it a gimmick? I thought that was exactly the kind of thing Naim always avoided...  

We've all been there: -

"I mention his talk about angles because it suggests something Wilcox had told me of his awful dreams. He had said that the geometry of the dream-place he saw was abnormal, non-Euclidean, and loathsomely redolent of spheres and dimensions apart from ours. Now an unlettered seaman felt the same thing whilst gazing at the terrible reality...

He had said that the geometry of the dream-place he saw was abnormal  and loathsomely redolent of spheres and dimensions apart from ours…

twisted menace and suspense lurked leeringly in those crazily elusive angles of carven rock where a second glance shewed concavity after the first shewed convexity…

The rest followed him, and looked curiously at the immense carved door with the now familiar squid-dragon bas-relief…..they could not decide whether it lay flat like a trap door or slantwise like an outside cellar door…"

A new design aesthetic: -

"The one test of the really weird is simply this—whether or not there be excited in the reader a profound sense of dread, and of contact with unknown spheres and powers; a subtle attitude of awed listening, as if for the beating of black wings or the scratching of outside shapes and entities on the known universe’s utmost rim."

Look at the curves on the Statement Amplifier and the Muso grille shape will make more sense...

Curved or not. It's still a ugly thing.

Up to now they did. It has a lot to do with the new French managment. I think they have other ideas then Naim has.

So - you're ambivalent?

It's an oblong box following on from many other oblong boxes and yet this one is ugly????????