New NDS Streamer

I seriously doubt it, although I'm not sure yet how firm is the price on the NDS.  Any new product released within 6 months or so of a price rise, usually has the price held firm for at least a year or more.

As a consumer and music lover, I want to know which combo suit my taste. They are in $$ order

NDS/555PS > NDAC/XPS + NDX/XPS > NDAC/555PS + NDX

Or these combo...

NDS with 2 x 555PS > NDAC/555PS + NDX/555PS

Seems like a mathematics lesson...

Jude.

Welcome to these parts.

I think Naim is with you on the Ferrari comaparison.

Re. the Naim server: There is always the Naim HTX that has internal harddisks ...

I myself has gone down the route of a Synology NAS which is very capable. I have no intention of buying a Naim Server at this point in time (sorry!) but I am seriously considering saving up for the NDS + NA555PS.

Best wishes,

Peter

Naim is an audio company not a network company. Devices like the HDX are primarily designed as hard disk PLAYERS and only then as servers for secondary systems in the house.

In the near future every household will maintain a network of some kind. And that will be dedicated to multiple tasks of which music is just one among others. What I mean to say is, that the network will simply be there and there is no need for Naim to poach in someone else's hunting grounds.

> Naim is an audio company not a network company.

Or has it become the audio network company? 

Imagine copper Ethernet cables to every room in your house, when the industry announces the new fibre standard for home networking .... it'll all end in tears or is that tiers? 

I've wired my own house with a wireless network, it was easy, but ......... 

Guy - I would recommend anyone network wiring or fibring thier house to use trunking so the wires/fibres  can be removed and replaced at some point in the future or added to. Is suepect we will see an bandwidth explosion in the domestic envinment in a few years and current wireless, ethernet over mains etc will seem so antiquted and limiting for future application demands. Network wiring may need to be more structured depending on applications, therefore stringing Ethernet wire and daisy chanining it without planning around the house could also hold things back. Plastic ducting that you can drag wires through allows you to adapt to the changing requirements. The future I think is definitely fibre/copper. Wireless will be used for low bandwidth devices like tablets/laptops/cameras/phones and whilst on the move.

Really Simon?   I mean, I know you know your stuff and all, but given the rather incredible advances in wireless throughput over the last decade, I would have thought that tomorrow's Bluetooth would have today's 100gbe speeds.  And with computers getting smaller and faster, would have thought that error correction and retransmission logic chips would get better as well.

Am probably missing something important though.   But it would be nice, since after all, the cost of cabling for wireless is very affordable. 

Hook

Perhaps the telephone offers a clue to the future of home networking ...... Anyone fish new telephone wire thru their house walls lately?

I am very definitely out of the "Circle of Trust" as to Naim's imminent and future products so you can take this as (un)informed speculation.

What if Naim were later to develop a range of digital pre amplifiers, digital room correction and digital active crossovers?

Would you not feel a little short changed if your NDS only had an analogue output - however reassuring this would have been to be to some - as of now?

I doubt very much if Naim care that anyone else makes a DAC. The dig out on a Salisbury grown box is a recent innovation, not seen before on the grounds that no other DAC could possibly be good enough. Who knows what such an output might realise in time. I believe it will certainly be usable with an up and coming DAC. Time will tell. 

If such a DAC hits the shelves (I'm betting on when) the NDS is going to be a jolly expensive route to a high quality dig out socket. Could the ND5 offer 95% of the quality for a fraction of the price? Interesting times ahead - and not in a bad way.

I think the digital out is so you can plug your NDS in to your Rhode & Schwarz UPL Audio Analyser

I know some people will just use the NDS to listen to music, but think of the fun you could have with this £8k add-on measuring jitter, distortion and getting it to draw all kinds of squiggly graphs that you could post on the forum

The ND5 and NDX are spoil sports as apparently they measure so well that they nearly take the UPL to its limits. So if the NDS is better then you'll need to upgrade your UPL. Typical Naim ... you always need an upgrade. 

Jude,

You actually have a rather a lot of choice for a Naim server: NS01, NS02, NS03, HDX, HDX-SSD Unitiserve, Unitiserve-SSD.  Indeed, it is Naim's preferred solution - i.e. Full Naim control from rip to replay.

Would that be the Rhode & Schwarz UPV ? 

UPV has ears 

Richard,  Thanks for the response.  Yes, I had forgottent the obvious.  Also wasn't familar with the 'NS' range.

If used as a streamer over a wired network, are there differeneces in sound quality in these products that do not use SSDs?

Jude