Inky blackness...

...is one of those odd terms one reads in Hifi reviews, along with all sorts of claptrap that can be dismissed as having little to do with the enjoyment of music - something for the round earth Hifi lover rather than the flat earthers raised on Linn and Naim in the 80s.

However, since getting my DR amplifier and Super Lumina wires I have come to really appreciate it. The way notes emerge from silence, and music ends with that same silence, is most beguiling. I remember seeing the Hilliard Ensemble and Jan Garbarek in Chichester Cathedral, and being entranced by the way the music emerged from complete stillness, yet at home somehow there was a fug around the music so that it was never quite the same.

Somehow the new Naim stuff seems to be able to do this, and in a way that enhances enjoyment of the music while preserving the involvement and joie de vivre that Naim does so well. 

I never thought I'd say this, but hurrah for inky blackness!