Inputs on 52

Posted by: Carl Leermakers on 03 February 2004

Just installed my "new" 52. Don't want to bore with how good it sounds (but it IS amazing isn't it, this morning I just realised that when a drummer hits a cymbal hard, the sound of it will fade out only very slowly, whatever the rest of the music does ... and that I never heard an amp do this correctly up to now).

Anyway, may I please bore the forum with something more close to earth:

52's inputs are labelled (in order) Tuner/Phono/CD/Tape/VCR/Aux (at least on mine they are)

I have to keep both inputs 2a and 2b free for the Prefix, so says the manual, so I plugged CD into input 3, but what am I supposed to do with my Naim tuner? Get BNC plugs for it? Input 1 ("tuner") is BNC. Inputs 4 to 6, if I understand correctly, have record facilities and I understand from this forum this means they are less 'clean'.

Even if a previous owner of the 52 changed the order of the input labels, the problem is the same: if I have to keep inputs 2a and 2b free for prefix, I only have one DIN input left without recording faciities, right?
Posted on: 03 February 2004 by Bosh
Having a BNC lead made up shouldnt be too taxing for your dealer, mine did one for me for the same reason.

At a later stage he also advised that he had found the record out sockets(ie 4,5,&6) sounded better and hence I subsequently used 2 of these for my LP12 and CDS.

The labels on the front panel can be lifted off gently with a sharpish instrument and reassigned as per your new configuration
Posted on: 03 February 2004 by Carl Leermakers
Thanks Bosh, that's helpfull. If some find the record out sockets are actually better, than at the very least they must be close enough to the other ones, so I'll just plug tuner into tape and try that "sharpish instrument-surgury" !

BTW: wish I DID have a Naim dealer at any reasonable distance... (I will henceforth add this remark to my messages on this forum until Carthago is at last 'delended'!!).

[This message was edited by Carl Leermakers on TUESDAY 03 February 2004 at 17:27.]