System Tweaks

Hi Steve, how about these 2:
1) The cleanest, lowest impedence and most stable electrical supply you can manage.
2) Considered steps to keep external vibration away from your system components.

Practically, this means a number of cost effective steps, listed in ascending levels of nerdiness below:
First, a dedicated radial mains supply with oversized conductors (this one gives the best benefit/cost ratio of all tweaks that I have come across)
An oversized balanced power supply (BPS) for those who suffer from dirty mains
A solidly mounted, light and stuff wall shelf for turntables.
Separate sensitive "brain" electronics into a different stack from the "brawn" components that contain mains transformers.
Keep switched mode power supplies away from your Naim electronics.
Keep your Naim Burndy cables and interconnect cables away from each other, all walls and floors (apart from the pre to pre power supply cables, which should stay together)
Disconnect and reconnect all electrical cables every few months to clean the contacts.
Shut down the system and restart it every couple of months. It seems to rejuvenate the power supplies, somehow...
Finally, do wiggle your Burnby cables from time to time. It's an embarrassing, inexplicable practice for those with true OCD, yet mysteriously effective!

There are many more (cue DB the master here!) but this is a starter for 10 to get you started.

Best regards, FT

Don't forget the basics. Experiment with different stacking orders unless you are 100% convinced that your equipment sounds best stacked as it is. Unplug and replug all cables a few times a year. Check cable dressing. Ensure equipment support is level. Consider a dedicated electrical spur. You might be surprised....

That reminds me, time for a strip down and rebuild of the system.

Thanks fellas, I had an electrician install a dedicated line from the fuse box to the wall socket, 20 amp cable with a 15 amp RCD and wall socket. (we have 230V 50Hz) He said that is plenty. I really appreciate all the other tips so far, most I would never have thought of, and free!

Hey Steve,

I used to see lots of posts about stacking and racking kit and normally went off to read something else.  I have been through a couple of system changes this year and am now a convert. You DO need to be careful where you place your kit. This can be a pain to experiment with especially if you have to dismantle some Fraim to do it. I could not agree more with the rule of keeping brain and brawn separate. In the end, I had to buy a TT wall shelf (Vulkan) to free up a shelf to keep all the PS in one stack. If you do nothing else, try to do this.

Dave