SBL's good match with Nait-2 ?

Posted by: Alco on 16 September 2002

Howdy Y'all,

No,No, I'm not planning on selling my Kan's again and buy me some SBL's but I found something on the German Ebay site (www.ebay.de) that caught my attention.

There's a guy offering his (oldstyle) Nait-2 and in that same ad he's mentioning some Naim SQL roll eyes confused speakers.
When I looked ad the ad of the Naim SQL speaker it looked just like an SBL to me!

He's offering the (walnut?) SBL's for a ridiculously low starting price of 695,- euro/437,- UKP!
Also he claimes that the 'perfect' amp for this speaker is the Nait-2.

Now, I know that Naim also mentiones on their site that most Naim speakers are easy to drive, but I've never heard of somebody driving SBL's with a Nait-2. ...or is there someone outthere who ownes (or heard) this strange combo.

Greetings,
Alco smile
Posted on: 16 September 2002 by John Sheridan
I've run SBLs with my Nait1. Sounded fine to me...
Posted on: 16 September 2002 by Rockingdoc
The SQL is the cabinet on the left of the picture. wink
Posted on: 16 September 2002 by John Sheridan
quote:
Nait-1 (and I think this should hold for the Nait-2 as well) is not capable of controlling the SBLs. They need at least a 140 (better 250).

Al, to get the most out of sbls you obviously need a better amp but the nait is more than capable of driving them. One thing I didn't try was playing anything at 'ear bleed' type volumes, naturally it may struggle with this.
One of my friends (non hi-fi type) actually preferred cdx-nait-sbls to cdx-102-scap-180-sbls... go figure.
Posted on: 16 September 2002 by Alco
quote:
Nait-1 (and I think this should hold for the Nait-2 as well) is not capable of controlling the SBLs. They need at least a 140 (better 250).

Hmm, but that's what some people also say about a Nait (1 or 2) driving Kan's, but there were lots of people in the 80's enjoying a Nait/LP12/Kan combo. I don't have any trouble driving my Kan's with a Nait-2 either. Also Tony Lonorgan has gone from a (correct me if I'm wrong) 32.5/HC/250 to a Nait-2 driving his Kan's.
SBL are also more efficient than Kan's.

but I haven't had the oppertunity to try SBL's on my Nait-2. Maybe some day... roll eyes

Greetings,
Alco
Posted on: 16 September 2002 by Tim Oldridge
I've just picked up a NAIT2. Before I handed over hard cash, I slotted it into my system to check it actually worked and left it in there for three days or so - a CDS2/NAIT2/SBLs definitely sounded great. To say that a NAIT won't drive SBLs is way over-simplistic.

Quoting selectively from a mate:

"Seriously, it's great.....it's got all the fundamentals - it really has. The sense of the music (admittedly a single comparison track, more stuff from Lampchop) is clearly there, you'd have
absolutely no trouble recognising the music and getting a lot out of it. Set-up this way, this is a great argument for a CDS II, NAIT, SBL (Allae?)type system. But, maybe far more raucous, demandingly dynamic (or simply badly recorded?) music might make the combo seem overly-revealing of problems....Anyway, thumbs up for the NAIT II."

We then put back the 52/250 and somehow never got around to comparing the NAIT again that evening.

Tim

P.S. Should have said that the NAIT probably needs a service.
Posted on: 16 September 2002 by J.N.
I've run my SBL's on a Nait 2 to great effect.

They'll let you know when the amp's running out of puff.
Posted on: 16 September 2002 by rch
Alco,

IMO the combination Nait2/SBL is possible (no doubt) but not effective (no doubt to me also), because the SBL is a great speaker, capable to reproduce music on a much higher level as a Nait2 will be able to offer. Therefore SBL´s should be used passive at least with a NAP 180 or active with 2x140 at least. Preamp 82 would be fine.

Don´t get irritated by the price of entry on ebay.de! Just await the last 10 minutes...

Why not selling your Kan´s for SBL´s??

Greetings
Christian
Posted on: 16 September 2002 by herm
"Why not selling your Kans for SBLs?"

Why not? Because we already had a thread or two about "Where did my Kannies go, poor liddle babies..."

Alco advertizes only one (1) Kan for sale and we're gonna book him. Sheer self-defense.

So that's why. First Alco goes to Texas. Then we're willing to talk about another round of selling the Kans, remorse, and getting the Kans back.

Herman wink
Posted on: 17 September 2002 by Thorsten
did that. worked well. even in direct comparison to 102/hi/180. it's quite a little bugger.

this post had to be edited for a grave gremmar mistke. please accept my humble apologies.

The most important upgrade: Forget about your system.

[This message was edited by Thorsten on TUESDAY 17 September 2002 at 12:11.]
Posted on: 17 September 2002 by Alco
quote:
Why not selling your Kan´s for SBL´s??

Greetings
Christian

Why not ? because I'm pretty satisfied with my Nait-2/Kans combination and also because I never see s/h SBL's. (not in my area that is!)


quote:
Why not selling your Kans for SBLs?"

Why not? Because we already had a thread or two about "Where did my Kannies go, poor liddle babies..."

Alco advertizes only one (1) Kan for sale and we're gonna book him. Sheer self-defense.

Herman


Hmm, I guess some of you guys didn't get the picture of this thread. I was just curious if anyone ever heard/owned a Nait-2/SBL combo and also found it to be a 'perfect' combination, because I've never read/heard anything about this combo.
I'm not planning on selling my Kans. smile

greetings Y'all,
Alco