Home Theatre is fun!
Posted by: SRAM on 25 March 2009
Hi
I have had Naim kit for about 15 years now. I went through a 5 year period of devloping the stereo system. This went from an entry level system to CDS/52/135/DBL. For 10 years the system was static with the DBLs.
Recently 2 of the cones went on the DBLs and I was advised silly sums of money by my dealer to have them fixed. Coupled with the fact they were ugly brutes which dominated the room and my wife hated we have moved them to the garage and started again.
I have just spent much more silly money than having the DBLs repaired, but it has been fun. All the electronics have been back to naim and serviced and some of my old kit has been brought into service as well as spending much too much on additional stuff.
We now have CDS/52/AV2/135/SL2/ncent/SBL (rear)/nsub. So all speakers (except nsub) are passively driven by 135s. There is also a new panasonic 50" plasma TV and pioneer BD player. We cannot use the new lossless dolby formats as AV2 does not decode them, so it is old fashioned dolby digital.
Last night was the first time it was all fired up and Wow! We only played music DVDs (Rolling stones/Madonna/Queen/Kaiser Chiefs)and it has completely changed my view on these discs.
The sense of involvement and excitement was extraordinary. The whole room was energised with floor/doors/furniture vinrating like crazy. Thank heavens it is a well detached house!
Was it real music - I don't know. But both my son and I play the drums and real life drums shift shift air like this did. The bass was pretty heavy, I have no doubt some might say it was too much. However, I have seen all the people on the DVDs we have live (clearly over several years!)and my memory of all these events is of visceral bass.
I have been used to naims top of the line passive stereo system for years and never had as much fun as last night.
Was it worth the money? Well, thats the question - I'm definitely not allowed any more pocket money for a while. However, I have NEVER seen my wife jumping up and down in the middle of the room singing along to "I predict a riot" by the kaiser chiefs before, with the kids dancing along with her. If that doesn't make spending money worth while, I don't know what is!
Simon
I have had Naim kit for about 15 years now. I went through a 5 year period of devloping the stereo system. This went from an entry level system to CDS/52/135/DBL. For 10 years the system was static with the DBLs.
Recently 2 of the cones went on the DBLs and I was advised silly sums of money by my dealer to have them fixed. Coupled with the fact they were ugly brutes which dominated the room and my wife hated we have moved them to the garage and started again.
I have just spent much more silly money than having the DBLs repaired, but it has been fun. All the electronics have been back to naim and serviced and some of my old kit has been brought into service as well as spending much too much on additional stuff.
We now have CDS/52/AV2/135/SL2/ncent/SBL (rear)/nsub. So all speakers (except nsub) are passively driven by 135s. There is also a new panasonic 50" plasma TV and pioneer BD player. We cannot use the new lossless dolby formats as AV2 does not decode them, so it is old fashioned dolby digital.
Last night was the first time it was all fired up and Wow! We only played music DVDs (Rolling stones/Madonna/Queen/Kaiser Chiefs)and it has completely changed my view on these discs.
The sense of involvement and excitement was extraordinary. The whole room was energised with floor/doors/furniture vinrating like crazy. Thank heavens it is a well detached house!
Was it real music - I don't know. But both my son and I play the drums and real life drums shift shift air like this did. The bass was pretty heavy, I have no doubt some might say it was too much. However, I have seen all the people on the DVDs we have live (clearly over several years!)and my memory of all these events is of visceral bass.
I have been used to naims top of the line passive stereo system for years and never had as much fun as last night.
Was it worth the money? Well, thats the question - I'm definitely not allowed any more pocket money for a while. However, I have NEVER seen my wife jumping up and down in the middle of the room singing along to "I predict a riot" by the kaiser chiefs before, with the kids dancing along with her. If that doesn't make spending money worth while, I don't know what is!
Simon