Hi-cap or Flatcap 2
Posted by: Nuno Baptista on 14 June 2002
Hello:
I´ve got a Naim Nait 5 and I want to buy a new source!Yet I don´t know wich source!with the Hi-cap can I connect a Naim source and a amplifier?or just the amplifier?I know with the Flatcap 2 I can connect both Naim source and amplifier!Don´t know about the Hi-cap!BTW wich is better to improve the sound and why?sorry guys I´m a new Naim menber ,don´t know much about Naim power supplies
Posted on: 14 June 2002 by Steve Toy
If you get a CD5 and then a Flatcap 2, you will have the following options (given that the Flatcap 2 is designed to power two pieces of Naim equipment simultaneously) :-
1) Use output A of the Flatcap 2 for the CD5, and output B for the preamp stage of your Nait.
2) Use output A for the preamp stage of the Nait, and output B for the CD5 (Naim's own recommended option, IIRC)
3) Use output A only into the CD5. This is MY recomended option following blind auditions at my dealer's early last year.
Given that option 3) is my own recommendation, it is worth spending the extra on a Hi-cap, as this takes the CD5's performance even closer to that of the CDX. Moreover, there are probably quite a few Hi-caps going second-hand.
Regards,
Steve.
The proof of the pudding...
Posted on: 14 June 2002 by herm
Hi Nuno,
I'm with Steven's third option here. You're thinking of getting a CD5, aren't you? Well, do that first, and meanwhile keep an eye peeled for a second-hand Hi-Cap (around 750 euros on the continent) for the CD5.
Herman
Posted on: 14 June 2002 by Steve Toy
What are you doing up at this hour on a Saturday morning?
I've already got my excuses.
Regards,
Steve.
The proof of the pudding...Posted on: 15 June 2002 by herm
Hi Steven,
it's simple: it's my option as well. It's what I've done. I have a rather infantile soft spot for Hi-Caps anyhow, those half-width cuties.
Why I was up and about? Sleep gets boring. So most nights I take a halfway break to read the NYTimes and do some stuff. (It is one hour later here, though.)
Herman
Posted on: 15 June 2002 by Adrian Rodgers
There was a suggestion in another forum (can't remember which one) some months ago that Naim have plans to make Hi Cap available in "new look" series 5 casework. Is there any truth in this? I have CD5/112/150 and PS is next planned purchase.
