CD or Cap

i just voted for option 3. Check my email on obligatory use of NACA5 with your Nait, or you'll invalidate its warranty. The minimum length is 3.5m, the optimum length is 5m. Also, you mentioned Nordost Solar Wind. I wasn't sure whether you meant their interconnects or their speaker cables. In the case of the IC, they're OK, I use them! As for the SC, they are awful, the bass is so dry and gritty. it lacks elasticity, bounce, if you will. Your Nait won't thank you for using them either! I have tried out all the above options both at home and at the dealership where I work in the afternoons (I tried the Nordost cable with the Densen amps, as Densen recommend them. I would never use anything other than A5 with Naim amps.)The boss shares my views and he is reliable as he has never tried to "sell" me any particular component.

Garbage In, Garbage Out.

You cannot expect to build a fantastic system on anything less than a great source. Peter, I'm not dissing your Stage 6, but you also have synergy to consider. I agree with your dealer. If you don't have the cash now, start saving (or sell a family member)... capping your Nait will certainly improve it, but will throw your system further out of balance.

Forget flash interconnects - the emporor's clothes of the hifi game. People use them as tonal filters (of all things!). It's way more simple than that - just buy the right box, connect it up with the cable it came with (or if it's RCA-jacked, use Naim ARO cable)... listen and enjoy.

In fact for little more than £300 you could buy a used CD-3, which would at least set you on the synergy path and likely put a beeeeeg grin on your face!

Any idea which voting button I hit?

Rico - all your base are belong to us.

Option 3 was about were I was going, I listen to vinyl too, so caping the Nait has some value, becuause I can put the Stageline onto it too.

But as others have pointed out, better let the Nait settle in first.

Peter

I am not familiar with this player, so I asked the boss at the shop. He said that it is actually a good player. Still said you wanted the CD5 though. He endorsed fully what I said about NACA5

I spent almost all day sunday, except for breaks for sustenance, listening to music. On my system the best LP's trash the best CD's but a good sounding CD is better than a rough sounding LP. Listened to some great sounding Coltrane reissues from the Rhino box set (heavyweight champion), and also listened to some fine sounding jazz from Sonny Stitt and Dizzy Gillespie on CD. It's all priorities. Recently because I had a cable problem I started to listen to a lot of CD's and discovered lot's of new music, well new to me at least. It's quite a bit harder to get new music on vinyl.

I think that I can be satisfied with current LP reproduction, although I have a lurking desire for an Incognitoed or originlived RB250 as a tone arm. The CD player gives some great results especially with well recorded CDs. I'm actually going through a massive CD reduction program, sorting out the dross that has accumulated over the years, some recordings just sound so dead, or the music is so dated that they're not worth keeping. I can't help wondering that if a let some of these CD's go, if a better CD player might not reveal hidden musical enjoyment in the discarded CD's.

Thanks for all of you that voted

Peter

It seems like a terrible waste to me, even if you think they are crap! I suppose you could try to sell them. IMHO there is no such thing as dated music. Look what just happened to the seventies - it's on its way out again!

Steven,

I found a shop that is called:

C.O.M. (Centrale d'Occasions Multimedias),
9 rue Trois Fuseaux
17000 La Rochelle

This is where I sell unwanted CDs, they take 30% commission. Sounds like a lot ? Well you get to decide how much a CD is worth, so what you stand to get is generally better than those stores that buy for resale. They take LPs, PCs, Video games, radios, TVs. Almost anything vaguely related music or video.

You can find gems there, but nothing is sorted and there is a lot, especially in the LPs, that is only fit for the dumpster. I've managed to sell about 90% of what I've taken there.

Peter