Naim streamer news?
Posted by: CraigB on 31 August 2010
Paul Stephenson - "We will make an announcement during September on a Streaming product."
OK Paul it's now September
. Any news on the streamer?
Eagerly awaiting something to replace my Slim Devices Transporter and which will plug in to the DAC.
OK Paul it's now September
. Any news on the streamer?Eagerly awaiting something to replace my Slim Devices Transporter and which will plug in to the DAC.
please guys....let´s here the ndx first
it´s somehow strange how the new streamer technology changed the patient of many of us here. it just shows how the society has changed our attitude in the last few years. fits very well with our use of telephone and computer and media in general
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i remember to have been skeptical against the hdx. until i had the opportunity to make a blind test. a cdx 2 with xps2 against the bare hdx. since i know the xps sound from my cd player all to well i was soooo sure. the curtain fell and what i assumed to be the cdx combo turned out to be the bare hdx.
paul is giving some hints, that the performance of the ndx will be better then our expectations.maybe....why not wait and see what the ndx sounds in the end.i know we are used to the performance related to the paid price in the naim herachy. but what if the 3000 p unit sounds on hight with a cdx 2.2 or hdx and with the dac even better then an ADS ?
it´s somehow strange how the new streamer technology changed the patient of many of us here. it just shows how the society has changed our attitude in the last few years. fits very well with our use of telephone and computer and media in general
...i remember to have been skeptical against the hdx. until i had the opportunity to make a blind test. a cdx 2 with xps2 against the bare hdx. since i know the xps sound from my cd player all to well i was soooo sure. the curtain fell and what i assumed to be the cdx combo turned out to be the bare hdx.
paul is giving some hints, that the performance of the ndx will be better then our expectations.maybe
....why not wait and see what the ndx sounds in the end.i know we are used to the performance related to the paid price in the naim herachy. but what if the 3000 p unit sounds on hight with a cdx 2.2 or hdx and with the dac even better then an ADS ?quote:Originally posted by Richard Dane:
... kind of like a UnitiQute without the amplification and pre-amp stages (...) and a high quality s/pdif for connection to the DAC. (...) I would guess it fulfils your requirements?
Quote quote quote! Mean: it would fulfils my *PERSONAL* (of course) requirements! Something to feed my SN DAC alongside my CDX2. Need something cost effective: spend in sound quality rather than doubled functions: no rip. No one more dac. A high quality streamer at its own right price.
Some days ago I posted here asking for a streamer like this: the most interesting hint was: "Do like Mr. Dane: buy a WD HD."
This means IMHO that in Naim range something is still missing... and I'll stay burning CDs for my CDX2, since I don't want to go on the netbook+hiface route.
quote:Originally posted by frs74:quote:Originally posted by Richard Dane:
... kind of like a UnitiQute without the amplification and pre-amp stages (...) and a high quality s/pdif for connection to the DAC. (...) I would guess it fulfils your requirements?
Quote quote quote! Mean: it would fulfils my *PERSONAL* (of course) requirements! Something to feed my SN DAC alongside my CDX2. Need something cost effective: spend in sound quality rather than doubled functions: no rip. No one more dac. A high quality streamer at its own right price.
Some days ago I posted here asking for a streamer like this: the most interesting hint was: "Do like Mr. Dane: buy a WD HD."
This means IMHO that in Naim range something is still missing... and I'll stay burning CDs for my CDX2, since I don't want to go on the netbook+hiface route.
Relatively speaking, the NDX output stage will sound better than that in the SUPERNAIT DAC by some margin. Do not be fooled by the component positivists who believe that every product utilizing a specific DAC chip sounds identical.
In fact, I can say from experience that I feel the UnitiQute's DAC (fed analogue into the SUPERNAIT via unity-gain) sounds better than running the UnitiQute's digital output into the SUPERNAIT.
quote:Originally posted by AllenB:quote:Originally posted by David Dever:
Why bother engineering a product that already exists as a subset of a shipping product?
I had to laugh........
Enter the NDX with it's sub-set (close on according to what's been written) nDAC.
Uhh, it's the other way around, but not quite - development of the DAC preceded that of the NDX by some time.
As an example, it is impossible to run the DAC fully off an external supply, whereas, even with its streaming core, the NDX can be fully disconnected from AC mains.
The output stage is (from initial listening impressions) voiced differently, which might appeal to a different subset of customers–in fact, if Naim decided to develop a higher-end DAC product, I'd wish it to possess this degree of refinement - and to be powered by an external supply.