Flat Earth
Posted by: Mike in PA, USA on 30 January 2004
What does this mean (Hi Fi wise)?
Posted on: 30 January 2004 by trickytree
It means your more interested in HiFi than music.
Paul.
Paul.
Posted on: 30 January 2004 by Wolf
Well I'd say that the presentation is fairly flat, presented as a whole. I have a friend with massive amounts of gear and his presentation actually sounds 3 dimensional. Horns left, strings right, voice center front, that kind of thing (very impressive I must say). My Naim gear has less depth in the soundstage but great clarity.
glenn
Life is analogue
glenn
Life is analogue
Posted on: 30 January 2004 by Mekon
I think Tony's description on PFM is pretty sound.
Posted on: 30 January 2004 by Arthur Bye
Posted on: 30 January 2004 by kuma
quote:
Originally posted by Arthur Bye:
You can always try the test.
http://forums.naim-audio.com/eve/forums?a=tpc&s=67019385&f=48019385&m=8791982372&r=3851940472#3851940472
damn..
I failed miserably...
Posted on: 31 January 2004 by kuma
quote:
Originally posted by Buffy:
Of course you did. The only Naim you have is a cd player. You're a definite Round Earther.
I wonder....
Buffy,
You make it sounds like it's such a bad thing.
The newer Naim is lot more round earthed than you had me believed.
Posted on: 31 January 2004 by Nime
According to the legends passed down by word of mouth by the few existing devotees: The term "Flat Earth" was believed to have been first coined in the Early Renaissance period of "HIFI".(Pronounced "hee-fee" according to paleo-linguists)
This was shortly after the aboriginal British Naim clan joined with a lesser group from the Welsh mountains. The name of this latter tribe is now lost to posterity. But may (according to legend) have been a mythical tribe of warring celts called "Llynks". The latter could be recognised in their wars against the Javanese hoards by their distinctive "Deksion" round battle shields. A short dagger known as a "Tokkit" was also customary wear. Though the latter is believed to have had more to do with ceremony at their shrines than actual use in the often bloody and protracted battles at the fabled "Real Dealers". Sadly no example of a "Real Dealers" is now known to exist.
It is said that Naim was forced rather early on to drop the shiny bumpers of their "Boxes" as the blinding glare from the average 1980's wall light combíned with the LLynks battle shield and dagger was likely to turn the heads of wavering members of the cult. No examples of thse early shrines with awful wallpaper and no corner bracing have been found by archaologists despite decades of research.
The invading Javanese used a subtle but successful trick of pretending that their "kit" was fashioned from solid metal. The few surviving Naim clan members refer to this period as "The Dark Ages". When the sect members were forced underground and obliged to wear olive drab and black.
The Naim clan's battle song of "All that glisters!" (still sung with great gusto to the rousing theme of Elgar's "Land of Hope and Glory!" often ended in unnecessary bloodshed at "The Real Dealers" apparently.
The rather sombre camouflage dress of the clan was brought to a highpoint with the introduction of the "AROE" cermonial dagger which allowed the clan to finally shrug off all shiny metal on the altar except for the traditional LP12 battle shield and "The Top Plate". Which had become symbol of purity and attainment of true exaltation within the sect's heirarchy. Apparently the LP12 shields were often dressed up with handwoven horsehair felt mats for special occasions of great ritual. (It is believed (though unproven) that a shadowy group known only as "The wife" was responsible for shrine maintenance and matt weaving. But no records are extant where "The Wife" is conclusively identified. "The Wife" may simply have been a myth perpetuated by those who broke away from the sect in these troubled times.
These special, ritual occasions are believed to have been known as "Listening Sessions!". The LP12 battleshield was given an added symbolic protective cover of a round black plastic disc (or disk) by the name of "LPs".(though this may simply have been a corruption of the name of the "Deksion LP12" and is probably purely symbolic) These plastic covers were rather short lived and the practice eventually died out. Though they were changing hands on the old bartering streetmarkets for considerable sums at that time. It was believed by devotees to offer greater protection from Digitalis Corruptus. A common disease of the time. (Now curable like most diseases of this period)
So the "Deksion" battle shield simply became a symbol of ritual. Devotees would kneel briefly at the altars in their homes. Before retreating slowly on tiptoe and with great ceremony to a seat known as the "Hot Spot" amongst devotees. While performing this ritual they would not allow their eyes to wender for a moment from the glistening "Deksion LP12" shield on top of the shrine's altar.
The actual meaning of the Naim black altar boxes or "Transformers" is now lost to the dusts of time. A recent archaeological dig has unearthed artefacts in Old Wiltshire suggesting (according to the site director): "The boxes contained only a round mass of copper welded by some unknown process (possibly involving extreme heat) into a hard round clump". "There was too little else remaining to be able to discover with any certainty what the other artefacts, contained in these ritual altar boxes, might have meant to members of the sect". The director then went on to say that nothing had altered his opinion that the sect was merely an offshoot of the great "HIFI" movement of the late 20th century prior to Digitalis Corruptus and the beginnings of the "AV" movement. This, as is now well established, was before the splitting off of the "HT" cult. Whose members still abstain from all nourishing food during their prologed submergence in their room sized "Subwoofers" being massaged by subsonic audio waves.
The few surviving Naim devotees refuse to argue with any of the latest findings. They merely smile knowingly and peform the ritual brief kneel before their shrine. Polishing their altar objects with great reverance and humming the old battle song "All that glisters!" quietly to themselves.
(Postscript) The most recent research suggests that the black Naim boxes were merely immitative symbols of the Obelisk in Arthur C Clarkes "2001". (The author died recently at the age of 274 after a brave battle against a prolonged illness) The exact chronology of these findings is hotly disputed by some sect members.
(With all due apologies for any historical innacuracies)
Nime
Everyone has the right to be wrong.
This was shortly after the aboriginal British Naim clan joined with a lesser group from the Welsh mountains. The name of this latter tribe is now lost to posterity. But may (according to legend) have been a mythical tribe of warring celts called "Llynks". The latter could be recognised in their wars against the Javanese hoards by their distinctive "Deksion" round battle shields. A short dagger known as a "Tokkit" was also customary wear. Though the latter is believed to have had more to do with ceremony at their shrines than actual use in the often bloody and protracted battles at the fabled "Real Dealers". Sadly no example of a "Real Dealers" is now known to exist.
It is said that Naim was forced rather early on to drop the shiny bumpers of their "Boxes" as the blinding glare from the average 1980's wall light combíned with the LLynks battle shield and dagger was likely to turn the heads of wavering members of the cult. No examples of thse early shrines with awful wallpaper and no corner bracing have been found by archaologists despite decades of research.
The invading Javanese used a subtle but successful trick of pretending that their "kit" was fashioned from solid metal. The few surviving Naim clan members refer to this period as "The Dark Ages". When the sect members were forced underground and obliged to wear olive drab and black.
The Naim clan's battle song of "All that glisters!" (still sung with great gusto to the rousing theme of Elgar's "Land of Hope and Glory!" often ended in unnecessary bloodshed at "The Real Dealers" apparently.
The rather sombre camouflage dress of the clan was brought to a highpoint with the introduction of the "AROE" cermonial dagger which allowed the clan to finally shrug off all shiny metal on the altar except for the traditional LP12 battle shield and "The Top Plate". Which had become symbol of purity and attainment of true exaltation within the sect's heirarchy. Apparently the LP12 shields were often dressed up with handwoven horsehair felt mats for special occasions of great ritual. (It is believed (though unproven) that a shadowy group known only as "The wife" was responsible for shrine maintenance and matt weaving. But no records are extant where "The Wife" is conclusively identified. "The Wife" may simply have been a myth perpetuated by those who broke away from the sect in these troubled times.
These special, ritual occasions are believed to have been known as "Listening Sessions!". The LP12 battleshield was given an added symbolic protective cover of a round black plastic disc (or disk) by the name of "LPs".(though this may simply have been a corruption of the name of the "Deksion LP12" and is probably purely symbolic) These plastic covers were rather short lived and the practice eventually died out. Though they were changing hands on the old bartering streetmarkets for considerable sums at that time. It was believed by devotees to offer greater protection from Digitalis Corruptus. A common disease of the time. (Now curable like most diseases of this period)
So the "Deksion" battle shield simply became a symbol of ritual. Devotees would kneel briefly at the altars in their homes. Before retreating slowly on tiptoe and with great ceremony to a seat known as the "Hot Spot" amongst devotees. While performing this ritual they would not allow their eyes to wender for a moment from the glistening "Deksion LP12" shield on top of the shrine's altar.
The actual meaning of the Naim black altar boxes or "Transformers" is now lost to the dusts of time. A recent archaeological dig has unearthed artefacts in Old Wiltshire suggesting (according to the site director): "The boxes contained only a round mass of copper welded by some unknown process (possibly involving extreme heat) into a hard round clump". "There was too little else remaining to be able to discover with any certainty what the other artefacts, contained in these ritual altar boxes, might have meant to members of the sect". The director then went on to say that nothing had altered his opinion that the sect was merely an offshoot of the great "HIFI" movement of the late 20th century prior to Digitalis Corruptus and the beginnings of the "AV" movement. This, as is now well established, was before the splitting off of the "HT" cult. Whose members still abstain from all nourishing food during their prologed submergence in their room sized "Subwoofers" being massaged by subsonic audio waves.
The few surviving Naim devotees refuse to argue with any of the latest findings. They merely smile knowingly and peform the ritual brief kneel before their shrine. Polishing their altar objects with great reverance and humming the old battle song "All that glisters!" quietly to themselves.
(Postscript) The most recent research suggests that the black Naim boxes were merely immitative symbols of the Obelisk in Arthur C Clarkes "2001". (The author died recently at the age of 274 after a brave battle against a prolonged illness) The exact chronology of these findings is hotly disputed by some sect members.
(With all due apologies for any historical innacuracies)
Nime
Everyone has the right to be wrong.
Posted on: 01 February 2004 by kuma
quote:
Originally posted by Buffy:
Of course you did. The only Naim you have is a cd player. You're a definite Round Earther.
I wonder....
I also failed miserably on Round Earther Test.
