An objective judgement to Naim quality…
Posted by: Arye_Gur on 13 July 2003
I have 5 kids who are not living with me. The older (Amir, 20 years old) playing a classic and electronic guitar and he played with a band before he went to the army. The second (Alon, 19 years old) likes to see movies and he has a collection of DVDs. The third (Erez, 13 years old) listens a lot to music and he is finishing a DJ course these days.
Yesterday Erez told me that my system has a great sound. Amir told me the same a long time ago and he listens to music at my home when he visits me. Alon brings DVDs when he comes to visit as he “likes the sound at my home while watching a movie”.
None of them knows even the name of the system I own and the only thing they know is where is the volume and input selector knobs.
They’d never asked me about the several boxes around and they really don’t care about HI FI and equipment. I think that the fact that they love the sound of the system – especially as they listen to music in other places and cares nothing about “Hi Fi” – is in a way a true objective proof to the quality of the sound of the system.
Arye
Posted on: 13 July 2003 by Tuan
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Originally posted by Arye_Gur:
I have 5 kids who are not living with me. The older (Amir, 20 years old) playing a classic and electronic guitar and he played with a band before he went to the army. The second (Alon, 19 years old) likes to see movies and he has a collection of DVDs. The third (Erez, 13 years old) listens a lot to music and he is finishing a DJ course these days.
Yesterday Erez told me that my system has a great sound. Amir told me the same a long time ago and he listens to music at my home when he visits me. Alon brings DVDs when he comes to visit as he “likes the sound at my home while watching a movie”.
None of them knows even the name of the system I own and the only thing they know is where is the volume and input selector knobs.
They’d never asked me about the several boxes around and they really don’t care about HI FI and equipment. I think that the fact that they love the sound of the system – especially as they listen to music in other places and cares nothing about “Hi Fi” – is in a way a true objective proof to the quality of the sound of the system.
Arye
Are you referring to the Classic Olive series here?
Posted on: 13 July 2003 by herm
Good question
Posted on: 13 July 2003 by Tuan
Naim quality
My CD3 never gives any problems and it sounds as good as the first time I hear it in the shop for the last 6 years. The day I traded it for the CDX2 it looks as new and sounds as good as the first time. I am not sure if my CDX2 can match this standard.
Posted on: 13 July 2003 by joe90
Based on Naim's awesome track record , Tuan, I'd rest assured that your CDX2 will rock for years to come.
I whole-heartedly agree with Ayre_Gur.
The mark of a great system is its intrinsic ability to always sound 'right', no matter what's playing.
Kudos.
Joe90
Posted on: 14 July 2003 by Frank Abela
If you look at Arye's public profile, you'll see that he has placed his system in there. To check anyone's profile, click on their name and select the first option in the drop-down menu.
FWIW, many of us place our systems in our public profile. This saves us having to reiterate what we're running all the time. It's a pity more people don't do this.
Regards,
Frank.
All opinions are my own and do not reflect the opinion of any organisations I work for, except where this is stated explicitly.
Posted on: 14 July 2003 by Matt worlock
Good call Frank, I also feel it's important to update!
Mad Boy Matt
Posted on: 15 July 2003 by Arye_Gur
Frank,
As a result to your post I updated my profile.
It seems I went through few changes and I didn't write them. I upgraded the 72 to a 102 and went back to a 32.5, and I'm a witness that a 102 is far better than a 72...
Arye
Posted on: 15 July 2003 by J.N.
One true God?
I love my Naim system, but one of my Hi-Fi buddies, who loves his music reckons my system is pants.
It fails to stir him in any way. In fact, he switches off and reads a mag; whilst the true believers foregathered, tap their feet and groove along with smiling faces.
I guess it's this diversity of opinion that keeps things interesting and maintains lively debate.
Posted on: 16 July 2003 by Matt worlock
Hey fred what speakers are you using?
Arye Gur mate...Audiophiles have the interest in the first place & because of this interest we aquire the skills to compare & evaluate the sounds we hear, we basically learn our art. For all those normal, regular people out there this is not their passion so their basically not bothered about how good or bad your kit sounds.
I am sure though that most nomal people out there are able to recognise quality, and in our case it happens to be a Naim system.
Whilst its nice when somebody with little or no audiophile knowlege comments favourably on our set-ups, you need to remember that you chose the system for yourself, based on the way you percieve.
P.S. Have faith in the hearing skills you've learn't!
Cheers for now
Mad Boy Matt
Posted on: 16 July 2003 by Rasher
Going back to Ayre's initial point, it is interesting the way that "outsiders" regard our Naim systems. I have a friend who has built a system purely for drum'n'bass, and this consists of NAD bridged amps and huge B&W floorstanders. We had a session last night fiddling with the speaker positions etc and got it to really work with some Aphex Twin stuff. It gets to grips with digital music. But that is all. It sounds so hard. Headache stuff.
Now, he really rates my system, but it's not what he would want. He needs massive volume - basically a PA would do nicely.
We all want different things, and it is easy to forget that when all of us forum members are Naim based (generally) and are therefore going in a particular common direction - so its good to note that Ayre's sprogs rate the system for whatever they are after themselves.
