Neat IOTA Alpha
Posted by: Ardbeg10y on 23 December 2016
Guys,
Some advice / reflections appreciated from you.
For next year I have a budget of about Euro 2000 to invest in hifi. This is not carved in stone, but not too much more please. I had some plans to get a pair of Ovators for the living, but this is budgetwise and wifewise not feasible unfortunately.
When I'm at home, I mostly watch the Berliner Philharmoniker late night so I prefer to dump the money in the TV / kids room. Very cosy place.
I have a Loewe 40 inch TV there and now and then I drag my Supernait + CM1's to there and I have a good evening.
Since this is quite an hassle and not too well for my gear, I'm going to setup a 'final' hifi-solution with this TV.
So, I'm going to audition some speakersets and the first set are the Neat Iota Alphas. They get good reviews and I need a set which is pretty discrete and small.
Neat and Naim seem to glue together well so no worries there.
As far as I see now - audition to confirm this - they can get pretty low so no subwoofer is needed.
My first question:
Can I connect the Analogue Audio Out from the TV to a Naim Power Amp directly, or would it be better to connect the TV digitally to my Naim AV2, and add a Power Amp to it? Or should I better get a s/h Nait 5 / Nap 150 / Nap 100 or so to pair it with to drive the Loudspeakers?
Second question:
I need some flexible Speakercable. I have currently 20m spare Linn K20, and I consider this already as 'quite stiff'. How about Chord Clearway? Looks to me as good value for money.
Third question:
Since I don't know yet if home audioning is a possibility (need to ask that), but regarding my TV room the following: it is about 4x2 meters and having - in the evening when I listen to the Berliner Philharmoniker - at least half of the surfaces covered by curtains or carpet. Since the tweaters of the Neat Iota Alpha's fire significantly upwards and therefore I assume reflections are important. I my case, they would fire straight into the heavy curtains behind me. My current CM1's feel very well there however positioning is very important. Moving 10 cm either to the left or the right changes the sound immediately.
Well thats it for now.
Anything I should not forget?