Does the Forum Keep You Faithful?

Naim isn't a religion or a wife, so I don't consider there is any underlying requirement to even consider an issue such as faithfulness.

However, Naim does make some truely excellent products and continues to deliver new products on a frequent basis. The forum does provide a very useful information platform, not only about new product release, but other peoples' views of said products and also helpful advice on how to squeeze the best performance out of each product.

It does also provide a useful insight to one or two good products form outwith Naim, eg Hugo, Oppo, Chord Cables, Speakers, cartridges.

Long may it continue !

I was led into temptation and have strayed from the flock.

I can see a possibility of me being Naim-free, but not through free will.

If anything the forum has an ability to occasionally - not so occasionally really over the years - give up and never post again. However the fascinating thing for me is that there is something very fine about Naim - both the company and so many of its products.

And if I can have the pleasure of sharing some favourite music with other posters - in the Music Room of course - then I am not out of the forum yet. Of course, so long as I remain on the forum, then I will occasionally post about replay as well in mainly a philosophical way as the technical details bore me immensely!

My view is that if it were not for the pleasure yielded by Naim replay for me, I'd have gone from the forum years ago.

So I'd put it the other way round. When the Naim forum makes me want to loose faith in Naim then the pleasure I get from the music replayed on their machines is enough to persuade me that there must be something worthwhile in the forum - at least some of it!

ATB from George

Naim is an evil cult! But who is the leader?

Dear Tony,

I had to read your first line twice to make sure the auto-moderator had not broken down! 

ATB from George

Dear George, 

It was meant in the most complimentary manner! No heresy intended. 

Hope you're well,

Tony

What forces were powerful enough to free you from the evil Naim cult?

faith is sometimes looked at as cognitive dissonance...., however I personally do also listen to other sets at shows and can appreciate sometimes what I hear. But those typical hifi systems are just a temporary enjoyment. The character of the naim sound is the character I prefer and will stay with. Re-investment in anything else would not be feasible anyhow :-)

Dear Tony,

I was teasing you!

ATB from George

I know George. 

What is the collective noun for cults I wonder?

A 'Wicker' of cults perhaps?

A 'Tribe' of cults?

An 'Edmonds' of cults?

I'm sure I read somewhere that Alex Salmond had become a cult.

I though Alex Salmond always was, but among the choices he seems a fairly harmless one for all that!

ATB from George

Or maybe it was that he'd acquired a cult following?

Dear Clive,

Time will soon tell on that one.

Interesting times we live in!

If Scotland remove themselves from the Union, then much will be permanently changed, and not least the politics of England, Wales, and Northern Ireland.

ATB from George

PS: Did you ever have relatives living in Evesbatch, Herefordshire?

With all this cult here cult there stuff,  good job I'm not dyslexic,

I am a bit, Tony! 

Hense my confusion at first! Only kidding!

ATB from George

No, George, not to my knowledge. I wonder why you ask, but if it's because of my views on this wretched independence question then I am even more confused!

Dear Clive,

Nothing to do with Scotland, but I grew up in Evesbatch to the age of 19, and shortly after I left Evesbatch Farm [more than thirty years ago now], some [very nice by all accounts] people called B- moved to a house virtually next door.

Sometimes it can be a small World. Just curiosity!

ATB from George

I think that Naim, like Linn, make some excellent products that have enhanced my enjoyment of music no end. This forum is a useful adjunct to that, being the source of useful info and some very good jokes. I have also discovered a number of artists via this forum (including Snorkel, only last week), enjoyed a bit of (occasionally robust) banter, and, most importantly, met some very fine people, including Graham (Quad 33), Denis, Adrian (Lontano) and, most recently, the good doctor Steve J.

What more could you ask for?

I have used a full naim system for around 15 years and have enjoyed it but just recently I've been introduced to others products and am enjoying them too.  My Arcam IR dac almost shows my CD5si a clean pair of heels and you can almost plonk it anywhere without the voodoo, for a third of the price, it may not be as revealing but it's just as enjoyable - here in lies the rub.

A Westminster.

G

A hubbard of cults?

A mao of cults?

A doomsday of cults?

A healy of cults? [that one probably won't mean much except to students of 1970s far-left British politics]

I got it!

People have such short memories! 

ATB from George

Yep George, the late Gerry Healy, of WRP infamy, a cynical manipulator, embezzler and sexual predator, beloved of batty old Vanessa and Corin Redgrave.

Some of those old far-left parties were extremely culty. The former Mrs Kev was a member of the creepy RCP [Revolutionary Communist Party - a bunch of contrarian, authoritarian wankers whose ranks included many people who really should have known better] in her youth; some of the tales she told me about their behaviour and control-freakery fair turned my stomach.

She had some rather unpleasant attitudes to certain matters, particularly those of personal liberty, and I think they were hammered into her during her time in the Party. Sadly, she was never able to entirely shake them off.