A boring new day.

Yesterday I visited my dealer, and they were demoing the Nova. I've heard it with Neat Motive SX2 and SX3. Nothing sounded like Naim. The Nova is just the opposite of its dad, the SuperUniti: limpid, pleasing, detailed and full of 3D imaging. Gentle and jolly in character, mildly exuberant, devoid of all possible true-to-reality-ness, the one that made Naim so opinion-dividing and interesting.

The Neats are just a pair of boxes with an expensive tweeter, and sound like if they were a call operator reading Shakespeare. They are expensive too. In a way I am glad that the great Naim era is over: now I can give myself to reminiscing, which – in spite of my therapist's opinion – is my preferred sport.