System Pics 2018

Honestly, I'm really sorry to have to ask as the standard response is look at the FAQS forum, but I've done that and I can't for the life of me, see "In the Insert/Edit image dialog box (mountain picture button)" anywhere.

Like now, for instance,  as I write this.

Flickr pics url copied and ready to rock.

Please help. This is so complicated!

Hi Mike, if you look at the Add Reply box at the end of the page, the 5th icon from the left (counting from B as the first) is a little square box with a not quite triangle inside (it's 2 to the left from the smiley). That's the one referred to as the mountain picture. If you  hover a mouse over it (if you're not on a tablet/phone) it'll say Insert/Edit image. Click on it and it'll bring up a dialogue box, enter the URL into the Source box. Thewn click OK, and the picture should show in teh reply box.

Bob the Builder posted:

We can't all be intellectual power houses  some of us are just ordinary, boring everyday people.  That is why I leave the weightier subjects  to those like yourself who are capable of quoting from  Star Trek at will and who of course are obviously less boring and more facinating than me.

Bob, please get over it. Don‘t you bore yourself with comments like this...

Mike1951 posted:

Honestly, I'm really sorry to have to ask as the standard response is look at the FAQS forum, but I've done that and I can't for the life of me, see "In the Insert/Edit image dialog box (mountain picture button)" anywhere.

Like now, for instance,  as I write this.

Flickr pics url copied and ready to rock.

Please help. This is so complicated!

My words, dont understand, why we have here a System from the Stone Age and we cant upload direct from device, as in all other Forum i know.

Because of storage space costs and as Naim provide this as a free service without plaguing us with advertising , therefore, and far more efficiently and in a simple way that was was developed way back when the first web protocols were being developed, one simply inserts the graphic image URI into their post using the forum post editor. Simples....

BTW some web sites will stop you referencing their resources for copyright reasons etc, and therefore this method won’t obviously apply or work... 

Themrock, as Simon explains above, this site is kept totally free of any advertising, so all costs for running the site are borne by Naim.  Storing images on the forum increases those costs considerably, so all Naim ask of its members is that they host their images for themselves, which, if you use certain image hosting sites, should be free to each member. 

Max_B posted:

This has to be one of the nicest pictures I've seen of Ovators.  Worth seeing again...

I've pruned (and will continue to do so if need be).  So let's get back on topic please.  Thank you.

Richard Dane posted:

Themrock, as Simon explains above, this site is kept totally free of any advertising, so all costs for running the site are borne by Naim.  Storing images on the forum increases those costs considerably, so all Naim ask of its members is that they host their images for themselves, which, if you use certain image hosting sites, should be free to each member. 

Dont you think Naim can handle the cost.

And the Forum is in a good way advertising for Naim itself, so i think ist not a argument for me.

This is going to be like Robot Wars... Themrock I wouldn’t provoke Sergeant Bash 

My cat charlotteke came home with this little singer

Back to pictures excellent. Little birdie told me you have a nice deck Lola.

Eoink posted:

Hi Mike, if you look at the Add Reply box at the end of the page, the 5th icon from the left (counting from B as the first) is a little square box with a not quite triangle inside (it's 2 to the left from the smiley). That's the one referred to as the mountain picture. If you  hover a mouse over it (if you're not on a tablet/phone) it'll say Insert/Edit image. Click on it and it'll bring up a dialogue box, enter the URL into the Source box. Thewn click OK, and the picture should show in teh reply box.

If it helps with a visual,  its as simple as  1 click  2 paste  3  OK   

Eoink -

"Hi Mike, if you look at the Add Reply box at the end of the page"...

 Can't see an Add Reply Box.

Oh wait,  that's the box I'm writing in. D'oh!

Can't see anything else other than the string of social media logos...

Mike see my post with pic I posted a minute before your last post .........  simple as 1 2 3 etc

A-Ha! I'm doing this from my Android mobile device.  I'm not getting those logos.

Are you saying this is a laptop function only? 

Try turning the phone on its side. 

HH reply is the way to do it. Works on my Android phone

Olly posted:

Max_B posted:

As of 11:38, December 28, 2017. The CDX2, originally from 2002, has been recently completely re-built and brought to 2017 specs. As for the rest, well, sorry but it sounds really good. Speaker wires are NAC A5. IC is Vertere Pulse D-Fi. M.

Max

I'd like to hear your story on the re-build of your CDX2 to 2017 spec (I searched but I don't think you've posted).  What brought this about, what changes were made to your player and what do you find they have done to the sound?

Thanks 

Olly

Olly,

my CDX2 is originally from 2002, and although it was still going flawlessly, I spoke with my trusted technician at the authorized Italian lab discussing idle matters, among which the Nova, streaming, entering the future etc, and he told me that, in his opinion:

- The current CDX2.2 is a 'definitive' machine;

- That there was a chance to have the new internals from Naim at a good price, and that (in his opinion), if I was intentioned to keep the player, it was absolutely worth doing. I didn't need the digital out, but the mother board also had a dig-out-less option.

- I considered the classic number of options: bettering the NAC A5 and little more. Then, trusting his experience and skills, I decided to do it.

He replaced the mech, the mother board (looks like the current BB1704 is not even more a K but a J, FWIW, so a last version; and completely recapped the analogue stage. It brought it to late 2017 specs without a digital output. But I am not the least interested in external DACs.

He alerted me that it may sound a bit 'hard' for a month or so, but the difference was very evident out of the box. It was richer, with more saturated colours, a more integrated midrange and some more 'drive'. Interestingly, it removed a tad of the SN's signature 'grayness' and controlled and made more tuneful the S-400s' bass. I must say – it's no secret, at this point – that I am using a 3rd party PSU for it, and they seem to work well together. There's life and dynamics, edginess or 'drive' in excess.

I'd say that this systems is not at the level of a perfectly matched and setup separates combo of an higher level, but it has managed making the S-400s the best possible sounding in this room.

Best

Max 

DrMark posted:

Sai cosa provo per questa stanza ... e le persone dentro - buon anno nuovo!

And a lucky, in-full-force, happy 2018 to you. You'll like the stanza's sound.

M&S

HiFiman posted:

HH reply is the way to do it. Works on my Android phone

Well it blimmin well doesn't on mine (goes off to power up his laptop. Grumble.  Harrumph).

Mike1951 posted:

Well it blimmin well doesn't on mine (goes off to power up his laptop. Grumble.  Harrumph).

Seems like you're having a really grumpy ol' christmas Mike.  It takes years of real dedication to be a proper grumpy ol' git, seems like you're getting there.  Well done my son.

UNCENSORED / UNCLEANED

This is where I watch the Berliner Philharmoniker online. Below the table is the magic: an AV2 and its wingman - an original Nait 5 acting in Power Amp modus. Audioquest Flix 14/4 cable.

30 meters of Lego Duplo tracks are in the drums below the amps.

Mike1951 posted:

HiFiman posted:

HH reply is the way to do it. Works on my Android phone

Well it blimmin well doesn't on mine (goes off to power up his laptop. Grumble.  Harrumph).

Even tried it on my wife's crappy Android phone and it works on hers!!!

Fire the laptop up and at least get your pictures on here.

Anyway an Xmas shot of my system a bit OTT but its only once a year!

PS cannot wait until year years day so i can take down the trimmings but don't tell the wife

Richard Dane posted:

Max_B posted:

This has to be one of the nicest pictures I've seen of Ovators.  Worth seeing again...

Thanks R, it was a lucky light and caring for having parallel lines straight. I don't go much further than this as far as pictures are concerned, and the subject was objectively pretty to begin with.