System Pics 2017

DrMark posted:

My humble offering - always feel inadequate on this thread, but I at least have a new piece in the system so my post has more "legitimacy"!

If that's 'inadequate!, feel sympathy for me and many other Naim owners who can only dream of upgrading to your level!! Be happy with what you have and enjoy your music. Merry Christmas!

My humble SuperUniti

Samradford posted:

My humble SuperUniti

It might even be humble but this frame is quite stunning

Oh ! and what a nice bookcase

Regards

Roberto

rsch posted:

Samradford posted:

My humble SuperUniti

It might even be humble but this frame is quite stunning

Regards

Roberto

Thanks Roberto - some lovely winter sun earlier in the year. Not a bad snap from an iPhone!

Cheekymonkey71 posted:

Adam Zielinski posted:

nigelb posted:

Adam Zielinski posted:

Tyranniux posted:

New addition for 2017 (the Rega). Have to say that it sounds bloody fantastic. Never had so much urge to just listen to entire albums or even come to that listen to albums I would never normally consider (due in part to a decent borrowed collection). Also had a good long play with speaker positioning just before the Rega arrived, much much to the positive. Brought the S400s from 18cm from the wall out to 35cm (which is as far as Im willing (ok, ok allowed!) to bring them out into the room. Massive increase in soundstage, which was already good, and also surprisingly bass quality and quantity. 

'Naked' Ovators - a sight one doesn't see too often

Well a naked bottom anyway (HF unit still covered)!

BTW, very nice system and very nice photos.

Reverse topless

Do the snake and killer whale bring anything to the party sound wise?

Mine with naked BMR

Regards

Roberto

nigelb posted:

Adam Zielinski posted:

Tyranniux posted:

New addition for 2017 (the Rega). Have to say that it sounds bloody fantastic. Never had so much urge to just listen to entire albums or even come to that listen to albums I would never normally consider (due in part to a decent borrowed collection). Also had a good long play with speaker positioning just before the Rega arrived, much much to the positive. Brought the S400s from 18cm from the wall out to 35cm (which is as far as Im willing (ok, ok allowed!) to bring them out into the room. Massive increase in soundstage, which was already good, and also surprisingly bass quality and quantity. 

 

 

'Naked' Ovators - a sight one doesn't see too often

Well a naked bottom anyway (HF unit still covered)!

BTW, very nice system and very nice photos.

haha, not naked at all actually, simply the foam removed from inside the honeycomb metal covers so I can see the speaker cones.  Thanks btw.

BR

Cheekymonkey71 posted:

Adam Zielinski posted:

nigelb posted:

Adam Zielinski posted:

Tyranniux posted:

New addition for 2017 (the Rega). Have to say that it sounds bloody fantastic. Never had so much urge to just listen to entire albums or even come to that listen to albums I would never normally consider (due in part to a decent borrowed collection). Also had a good long play with speaker positioning just before the Rega arrived, much much to the positive. Brought the S400s from 18cm from the wall out to 35cm (which is as far as Im willing (ok, ok allowed!) to bring them out into the room. Massive increase in soundstage, which was already good, and also surprisingly bass quality and quantity. 

 

 

'Naked' Ovators - a sight one doesn't see too often

Well a naked bottom anyway (HF unit still covered)!

BTW, very nice system and very nice photos.

Reverse topless

Do the snake and killer whale bring anything to the party sound wise?  

Well I would say no but I tend to find that Paddy leaves them where he likes them and chills out when I play music he likes, thus a more silent background ;-). As you can see a bit of Debussy sends him off nicely (hes snuggled up at the end of the sofa).

Not really a picture of a system, but just before sending my '84 NAIT back home for a long overdue service, I put it together with my already serviced '88 NAIT2 for a comparative photograph.

Michael Mccullough posted:

Tyranniux posted:

New addition for 2017 (the Rega). Have to say that it sounds bloody fantastic. Never had so much urge to just listen to entire albums or even come to that listen to albums I would never normally consider (due in part to a decent borrowed collection). Also had a good long play with speaker positioning just before the Rega arrived, much much to the positive. Brought the S400s from 18cm from the wall out to 35cm (which is as far as Im willing (ok, ok allowed!) to bring them out into the room. Massive increase in soundstage, which was already good, and also surprisingly bass quality and quantity. 

 

 

 

 

 

Very nice. Love the Dynavector 10x5. What support do you have your Rega on?

its just two granite chopping boards sat on top of my rack. I would have just sat it straight on the rack as I did with the test unit but when I checked how level it was it was slightly askew. Two chopping boards meant I could strategically place blutack on the corners between them to get the top board perfectly level without having to mark the rack or the deck. Ill just check it periodically to make sure the Blutack doesnt squash too much.

Richard Dane posted:

Not really a picture of a system, but just before sending my '84 NAIT back home for a long overdue service, I put it together with my already serviced '88 NAIT2 for a comparative photograph.

Well done Richard, what a nice colection !

Regards

Roberto

Still  a preview from dealer of this early gen. 250 i' ll  be delivered early next month, replacing the 140

Regards

Roberto

Samradford posted:

Iittala vase, one of the first things my first kid broke. We used to fill it up with yellow tulips.

Nice place, mr Radford.

rsch posted:

Still  a preview from dealer of this early gen. 250 i' ll  be delivered early next month, replacing the 140

Regards

Roberto

Beautiful classic lines. Sometimes the chrome bumper just looks right (as it does in the case of the NAP250). 

Clive B posted:

rsch posted:

Still  a preview from dealer of this early gen. 250 i' ll  be delivered early next month, replacing the 140

Regards

Roberto

Beautiful classic lines. Sometimes the chrome bumper just looks right (as it does in the case of the NAP250). 

Absolutely, All CB boxes still look great and and iconic. Their Black series heirs are a little less characterful. Yesterday i shipped the 140 in Germany and i already miss it a little.

Regards

Roberto

Haim Ronen posted:

DrMark posted:

My humble offering - always feel inadequate on this thread, but I at least have a new piece in the system so my post has more "legitimacy"!

 

 

DRMARK,

My 1.5 are sitting on spikes that go through the rug and are anchored to the wooden floor. I tried granite slabs under the speakers but that cooled the thinned the sound too much for me.

Haim

 

Thanks Haim - The floor is a laminate - the spikes would destroy it, so I had to come up with an alternative mounting base. Perhaps with the porting system on these it may not have as much that effect, but I cannot think of any other way to do it. (But will listen to any ideas offered here.)

I was using copper pennies for the rack spikes until a kind and generous person gave me those items (an appropriate descriptive noun escapes me at this moment) on which it sits at present.

Samradford posted:

I absolutely LOVE this look for a room.

If I may ask, where on this planet is it located?

Richard Dane posted:

Not really a picture of a system, but just before sending my '84 NAIT back home for a long overdue service, I put it together with my already serviced '88 NAIT2 for a comparative photograph.

That is awesome - is it naughty or nice to covet that Nait2 as I am right now?

DrMark posted:

Samradford posted:

I absolutely LOVE this look for a room.

If I may ask, where on this planet is it located?

I was just thinking the same thing! 

Timmo1341 posted:

DrMark posted:

My humble offering - always feel inadequate on this thread, but I at least have a new piece in the system so my post has more "legitimacy"!

If that's 'inadequate!, feel sympathy for me and many other Naim owners who can only dream of upgrading to your level!! Be happy with what you have and enjoy your music. Merry Christmas!

Thank you for the kind words - I have painstakingly put this together on the SH market when the opportunities presented. The most recent addition is the XP5 XS (non-DR) for $1,350 delivered to my door. I knew I would not be able to afford the XPS, and it forced my hand on putting a guitar up for sale, but I have enough (well, never enough) of those so I took the plunge.

This particular unit had sat unopened in its box at a Naim dealer until about 3 months ago, so even though it was pre-DR, it was basically as new and just burned in, so it should have a good lifespan before needing a service.

As is typically my experience with Naim PSU, the difference is more a case of addition by subtraction.

Finkfan posted:

DrMark posted:

Samradford posted:

I absolutely LOVE this look for a room.

If I may ask, where on this planet is it located?

I was just thinking the same thing! 

The eternal blessing of Bauhaus is visible in it. Maybe the designer visited Farnsworth House.

Ardbeg10y posted:

Finkfan posted:

DrMark posted:

Samradford posted:

I absolutely LOVE this look for a room.

If I may ask, where on this planet is it located?

I was just thinking the same thing! 

The eternal blessing of Bauhaus is visible in it. Maybe the designer visited Farnsworth House.

It reminds me more to Frank Frank LLoyd Wright for the volumes and that stone pattern.

Regards

Roberto

rsch posted:

Ardbeg10y posted:

Finkfan posted:

DrMark posted:

Samradford posted:

I absolutely LOVE this look for a room.

If I may ask, where on this planet is it located?

I was just thinking the same thing! 

The eternal blessing of Bauhaus is visible in it. Maybe the designer visited Farnsworth House.

It reminds me more to Frank Frank LLoyd Wright for the volumes and that stone pattern.

Regards

Roberto

Next to the telly are on the right side the Naim thing, and on the left side the Lego Architecture model of the Farnsworth House.

But the house is somewhere in the middle of FLW and Bauhaus. Maybe the architects jump in here and give me a master class!

(would love that, architecture is great)

DrMark posted:

My humble offering - always feel inadequate on this thread, but I at least have a new piece in the system so my post has more "legitimacy"!

Ciao Mark,

so you bought the XP 5XS in the end.. Please report.

Max