New member needs advice
Posted by: Fran on 14 June 2002
Hi all !!
I'm a spanish new member.
First , congratulations for this Forum.
Second , please apologises for my bad English.
My sistem is : CDI/82/Hicap/250/Naca5/Sonus Faber Electa Amator I
Here in Spain is almost impossible to find s/h or ex-dem and I have to buy from UK. Of course , I can't try anything at home.
Which would be the logical next step ?.
CDX ?
Second hicap ?
135 ?
Regards
Fran
PS . See you in the WC final !!!!!!
I'm a spanish new member.
First , congratulations for this Forum.
Second , please apologises for my bad English.
My sistem is : CDI/82/Hicap/250/Naca5/Sonus Faber Electa Amator I
Here in Spain is almost impossible to find s/h or ex-dem and I have to buy from UK. Of course , I can't try anything at home.
Which would be the logical next step ?.
CDX ?
Second hicap ?
135 ?
Regards
Fran
PS . See you in the WC final !!!!!!
Posted on: 14 June 2002 by herm
Hi Fran,
welcome. I'd say the next step would be full and mindless enjoyment of the music. You have a very nice system.
Is your CDi doing fine? Which CDi is it: the one with the tall clamp or not? Does it ever skip tracks? If not I would just enjoy it while it lasts.
At some point in time you're bound to get transport problems with the CDi, so maybe the best advise I could give is don't do anything, but quietly save money, without any pain, to purchase the top CD player + power supply in a couple years time.
And getting a second Hi-Cap has never hurt anybody.
Herman
PS the South-Africa - Spain match was totally exciting. My girlfriend is from Andalucia and she was delirious.
welcome. I'd say the next step would be full and mindless enjoyment of the music. You have a very nice system.
Is your CDi doing fine? Which CDi is it: the one with the tall clamp or not? Does it ever skip tracks? If not I would just enjoy it while it lasts.
At some point in time you're bound to get transport problems with the CDi, so maybe the best advise I could give is don't do anything, but quietly save money, without any pain, to purchase the top CD player + power supply in a couple years time.
And getting a second Hi-Cap has never hurt anybody.
Herman
PS the South-Africa - Spain match was totally exciting. My girlfriend is from Andalucia and she was delirious.
Posted on: 14 June 2002 by Dave J
Hi Fran,
Welcome to the Forum and no apologies needed for your English . Su Ingles es bien mejor de que mi Español.
I don't know your speakers but I do have an 82, hicap & 250 and I would urge you to look at improving your CD player next as this will bring about the most significant improvement. I'm not aware that the Fabers are a particularly difficult load so your 250 should cope admirably until you have a CDS2/XPS/52/Supercap, if you decide to go that far.
I prefer an Ikemi to a 'naked' CDX, myself (but still think the CDX is a terrific player). However, if you can afford an XPS at the same time, the CDX/XPS combination is excellent and just a step away from the CDS2.
Good luck.
Dave
Welcome to the Forum and no apologies needed for your English . Su Ingles es bien mejor de que mi Español.
I don't know your speakers but I do have an 82, hicap & 250 and I would urge you to look at improving your CD player next as this will bring about the most significant improvement. I'm not aware that the Fabers are a particularly difficult load so your 250 should cope admirably until you have a CDS2/XPS/52/Supercap, if you decide to go that far.
I prefer an Ikemi to a 'naked' CDX, myself (but still think the CDX is a terrific player). However, if you can afford an XPS at the same time, the CDX/XPS combination is excellent and just a step away from the CDS2.
Good luck.
Dave
Posted on: 14 June 2002 by Simon B
Hi Fran,
I would just make sure the set-up is as good as possible. And as Herman Says save up your money for a replacement CD player when the time comes. I have been lead to belive that a bare CDX is not much different than a CDI so the replacement would be either CDX+XPS or CDSII & XPS. Getting a better power supply whilst your waiting makes good sense as well.
What have you got your CDI resting on? This as I am sure you know makes a large difference.
Regards
Simon
I would just make sure the set-up is as good as possible. And as Herman Says save up your money for a replacement CD player when the time comes. I have been lead to belive that a bare CDX is not much different than a CDI so the replacement would be either CDX+XPS or CDSII & XPS. Getting a better power supply whilst your waiting makes good sense as well.
What have you got your CDI resting on? This as I am sure you know makes a large difference.
Regards
Simon
Posted on: 14 June 2002 by Fran
Hi all again !!!
My Cdi is s/n 85.340
I purchased it s/h in 1995 and never has skipped a track.It has a puck very similar to a hat.It rests in a shelf made furniture until I move all hifi to another room.
Regards
Fran
My Cdi is s/n 85.340
I purchased it s/h in 1995 and never has skipped a track.It has a puck very similar to a hat.It rests in a shelf made furniture until I move all hifi to another room.
Regards
Fran
Posted on: 14 June 2002 by herm
CDi
Hi Fran,
your CDi was manufactored in 1993 (at Naim HQ they can quote you its very birthday if you ask), and it's got the old-style, irreplacable transport. (You can read about this if you use the search machine in the right hand bottom corner of the HIfi opening page of this forum.)
However, it's working well, so don't fix it if it ain't broken.
You could shop around a bit for a nice stand. That's what people are bound to tell you now.
Herman
Hi Fran,
your CDi was manufactored in 1993 (at Naim HQ they can quote you its very birthday if you ask), and it's got the old-style, irreplacable transport. (You can read about this if you use the search machine in the right hand bottom corner of the HIfi opening page of this forum.)
However, it's working well, so don't fix it if it ain't broken.
You could shop around a bit for a nice stand. That's what people are bound to tell you now.
Herman
Posted on: 14 June 2002 by Alex S.
You are a lucky man indeed to have a delirious Andalucian girlfriend. I was lucky enough to have one myself once, from Jerez, she road horses for breakfast, not that I'd swap her for my Cossackess of course.
Alex
PS Hi Fran, welcome to the Forum. On balance I'd keep your system as it is, buy some more music, and replace the CDi with a CDX when the time comes. The only problem then is you'll soon find you need an XPS to go with it.
Alex
PS Hi Fran, welcome to the Forum. On balance I'd keep your system as it is, buy some more music, and replace the CDi with a CDX when the time comes. The only problem then is you'll soon find you need an XPS to go with it.
Posted on: 14 June 2002 by herm
Alex wrote:
You are a lucky man indeed to have a delirious Andalucian girlfriend. I was lucky enough to have one myself once, from Jerez, she road horses for breakfast, not that I'd swap her for my Cossackess of course.
Excellent: you'll keep yours, I'll keep mine. After all this is a hifi forum.
replace the CDi with a CDX when the time comes. The only problem then is you'll soon find you need an XPS to go with it.
That's why Fran should get the combo at one fell swoop - if by then there's not a new model...
And what's wrong, Dutch, with having a CDi for more than seven years, bought secondhand, and at a certain moment, after years of good service, retiring it to the guest room, or something?
Herman
You are a lucky man indeed to have a delirious Andalucian girlfriend. I was lucky enough to have one myself once, from Jerez, she road horses for breakfast, not that I'd swap her for my Cossackess of course.
Excellent: you'll keep yours, I'll keep mine. After all this is a hifi forum.
replace the CDi with a CDX when the time comes. The only problem then is you'll soon find you need an XPS to go with it.
That's why Fran should get the combo at one fell swoop - if by then there's not a new model...
And what's wrong, Dutch, with having a CDi for more than seven years, bought secondhand, and at a certain moment, after years of good service, retiring it to the guest room, or something?
Herman
Posted on: 14 June 2002 by herm
CDi problems
In that case it would first develop tracking problems. Then you'd better start looking at your savings account. But Fran seems to have a very well-tended specimen, just like (for instance) Gary seems to do and many other members. There's a lot of scary stories about the CDi, but it's a great sounding machine, a real looker, and by now (seven years @ second hand) an astounding bargain. I wouldn't sell a good CDi ever.
Herman
In that case it would first develop tracking problems. Then you'd better start looking at your savings account. But Fran seems to have a very well-tended specimen, just like (for instance) Gary seems to do and many other members. There's a lot of scary stories about the CDi, but it's a great sounding machine, a real looker, and by now (seven years @ second hand) an astounding bargain. I wouldn't sell a good CDi ever.
Herman
Posted on: 14 June 2002 by J.N.
Welcome to the world of Hi-Fi paranoia!
Cautionary tale: My friend's seven year old CD3 recently up and died. The dealer sent it back to Naim and they installed a whole new transport and laser assembly at a cost of £350.
The dealer had not expected it to cost this much and as a goodwill gesture offered my friend a new CD5, minus the £350, which my friend accepted.
The moral of this tale is obvious. CD players wear out. Amps do not; they just sound tired.
I'd go for the new CDX. It also gives you an upgrade path.( As well as sounding a lot nicer).
A second Hi-Cap on the 82 is of course, better. A Supercap on the 82 is better still.
Listen carefully to 135's. They are not a bigger better 250; but sound quite different.
Good luck.
Cautionary tale: My friend's seven year old CD3 recently up and died. The dealer sent it back to Naim and they installed a whole new transport and laser assembly at a cost of £350.
The dealer had not expected it to cost this much and as a goodwill gesture offered my friend a new CD5, minus the £350, which my friend accepted.
The moral of this tale is obvious. CD players wear out. Amps do not; they just sound tired.
I'd go for the new CDX. It also gives you an upgrade path.( As well as sounding a lot nicer).
A second Hi-Cap on the 82 is of course, better. A Supercap on the 82 is better still.
Listen carefully to 135's. They are not a bigger better 250; but sound quite different.
Good luck.
Posted on: 14 June 2002 by herm
Good Thinking, Christian
the CDi is an excellent sounding machine. Just enjoy it as long as it lasts, and in the meantime stuff a little £ kitty for the new upper middle class CD Player Naim will have by the time yours conks out.
Herman
the CDi is an excellent sounding machine. Just enjoy it as long as it lasts, and in the meantime stuff a little £ kitty for the new upper middle class CD Player Naim will have by the time yours conks out.
Herman