nd555 announcement : music matters show/ 8 march
Posted by: French Rooster on 03 February 2018
naim statement / nd555 will be present at the music matters Seattle show , on 8 march. I just saw it on the net.
RICHYH posted:To beat the Linn ds3 must be the first objective, as it will be more expensive.
I thought the NDS already did that. 
Chag -
RICHYH posted:This, to me, is why the nd555 is pivotal moment in streaming. It is the first time Naim have designed and built an extreme high end streamer, and going by the rest of the 500 series it must be something special. To beat the Linn ds3 must be the first objective, as it will be more expensive.
Aspiring to match the Chord Dave or the Linn DS3 is probably raising the bar and expectations just a little too far!
Hopefully it might match, or perhaps even better something like an NDX/Hugo or microRendu/Hugo. Now that's something a little more realistic to aim for! However, when you add on the price of the twin matching power supplies it might well be just a little more expensive.
Hmack posted:RICHYH posted:This, to me, is why the nd555 is pivotal moment in streaming. It is the first time Naim have designed and built an extreme high end streamer, and going by the rest of the 500 series it must be something special. To beat the Linn ds3 must be the first objective, as it will be more expensive.
Aspiring to match the Chord Dave or the Linn DS3 is probably raising the bar and expectations just a little too far!
Hopefully it might match, or perhaps even better something like an NDX/Hugo or microRendu/Hugo. Now that's something a little more realistic to aim for! However, when you add on the price of the twin matching power supplies it might well be just a little more expensive.
Hi Hmack
I cannot see how the aim to beat Linn DS3 is raising the bar too far, Naim are an excellent company and with Linn there is a great rivalry, I think this will be the first aim from a 500 series streamer designers. Whereas the Chord is just a dac, so maybe another argument.
RICHYH posted:Hmack posted:RICHYH posted:This, to me, is why the nd555 is pivotal moment in streaming. It is the first time Naim have designed and built an extreme high end streamer, and going by the rest of the 500 series it must be something special. To beat the Linn ds3 must be the first objective, as it will be more expensive.
Aspiring to match the Chord Dave or the Linn DS3 is probably raising the bar and expectations just a little too far!
Hopefully it might match, or perhaps even better something like an NDX/Hugo or microRendu/Hugo. Now that's something a little more realistic to aim for! However, when you add on the price of the twin matching power supplies it might well be just a little more expensive.
Hi Hmack
I cannot see how the aim to beat Linn DS3 is raising the bar too far, Naim are an excellent company and with Linn there is a great rivalry, I think this will be the first aim from a 500 series streamer designers. Whereas the Chord is just a dac, so maybe another argument.
Hi RICHYH,
My post was intended to be taken very much tongue in cheek, and was aimed primarily at the similarly tongue in cheek (I think) remarks about the Martin Colloms review. I have heard the current NDS/500DR and I think it's very good indeed, although my particular tastes run more to the most recent versions of the KDS (from DS/1 onwards).
I have no doubt that the new ND555 will be very fine indeed, and may well challenge or even better the KDS/3. However, if it does, it won't be by much. There are a number of very good competing streamers and DACs at a similar price range to that of the NDS and ND555. It really all comes down to personal subjective preference, and improvements are becoming harder to come by.
I won't be purchasing an ND555 when it comes out, but I say this only because for me, an upgrade from DS/1 to DS/3 (one of the benefits of owning a KDS or KDSM) would be very much less expensive and more affordable. I am very comfortable with my current system (more so than I think I have ever been), and I no longer feel the inclination (nor have the pockets) to spend huge amounts of money on relatively small improvements.