Naim Nait 2

The Naim speaker connectors were designed to best allow the pins to make the most natural contact down the socket shaft - i.e. minimise any torsional that might force the pin to make a poor or less optimal contact.  The housing may also act as a kind of isolator for any vibrations picked up by the speaker cables.  Bottom line is that it sounds better with the plastic housings on than off - just be sure that the pins can move slightly otherwise it may mean that excess solder is jamming them up within the housing. Oh, and yes, it also helped out with the PCB mounted sockets on the NAITs and the NAP90.

Nait 2 lore.. I love all this and btw the amp is fantastic!! 

My friend who owns an XS was majorly cheesed off when we did a back to back on the weekend 

I've been using my Nait 2 olive with a better than new, upgraded pair of Quad ESL-63s for about a decade now.  I can turn it up so loud that the neighbors will call the police.

On the original topic, I have to say i've never had any problems with my Nait 1 & 2's not going loud enough?  With my SBL's they simply kick ass, and have more than enough grunt to upset my wife and immediate neighbors

First Naim was a nait 2 cb mid 80's running rega planar 3 into a set of kans. I still have it all running in the study, admittedly all have been refreshed/upgraded over the years and a Squeezebox is a nod to modernity.