Naim NAC 52
Posted by: tiggers55 on 14 April 2018
I have an Olive active system. Primarily play Roon ALAC rips via DAC-V1 into 82/Supercap/SNAXO2-4/Supercap/4 x 135s/Allaes.
All amps have been recently serviced and the system sounds great. I love the Olive sound and anyway can't afford to get more modern kit, but keep wondering about the 52 vs the 82. Given I primarily use ALAC rips and rarely CD or vinyl am I going to get a big improvement with a 52 over the 82?
What say you? My heart says do it as then there's nowhere else left to go in Olive, but my head says it can't make that much difference.
Alba1320 posted:By CDS, I mean the original CDS; Naim's first ever (and best?
) CD Player, and the original Olive 'flagship' (sometimes referred to, erroneously, as CDS1).
Usual caveats apply re. mechs/repairs etc. (but you have a CD2, so are, presumably, aware of such things?)
(credit to OPs for the pic.)
Oh no your making me miss my CDS2 and my CDS and CDI. I nearly bought a second hand CDI this week, the olive gear to me just looks so sexy, especially with 6 to 8 boxes lined up and the lights glowing ...
I wish I'd kept my CDI most of all, yeah CDS was a major step up, but there was something about the CDI (for me).
Alba1320 posted:By CDS, I mean the original CDS; Naim's first ever (and best?
Usual caveats apply re. mechs/repairs etc. (but you have a CD2, so are, presumably, aware of such things?)
(credit to OPs for the pic.)
Oh no your making me miss my CDS2 and my CDS and CDI. I nearly bought a second hand CDI this week (Just for display with the lights on), the olive gear to me just looks so sexy, especially with 6 to 8 boxes lined up and the lights glowing ...
I wish I'd kept my CDI most of all, yeah CDS was a major step up, but there was something about the CDI (for me).