Naim AV2 Magic

+1.  Keeping mine until death.

Nick

People always start a"what would you want naim to make thread" for me its an updated 7.1 channel analog preamp for use with players like the oppo udp-205, no digital circuitry, just an 8 channel analog pre preferably with an external power supply'

real naim surround

dream come true

and naim would sell more power amps, and focal would sell more speakers!!!

win win for every body

mario.

I loved the AV2. It was never the best in terms of sound steering on movies, although it was very good. Where it was superb was musically; and, yes I would seriously consider buying any new incarnation.

I think the issue from Naim's POV is that these boxes take a large amount of R&D, then need up front royalties, which cuts into any profit. I wonder whether as a company they made any money on their foray into AV.

With the advent of streaming Naim have had to turn their resource in that direction so I suspect Naim AV is a dead duck.

M

Love the AV2 as well.
Your buzz would indeed have been 50hz and is due to the TV not being earthed.
If it were a DVD player, I'd suggest running a cable front a screw on the metal case to a good known earth point. (or even the earth pin of a socket)
However, as most TV's don't seem to have any (or much) metal on the outside these days, I wouldn't go delving inside...

blythe posted:

Love the AV2 as well.
Your buzz would indeed have been 50hz and is due to the TV not being earthed.
If it were a DVD player, I'd suggest running a cable front a screw on the metal case to a good known earth point. (or even the earth pin of a socket)
However, as most TV's don't seem to have any (or much) metal on the outside these days, I wouldn't go delving inside...

Hi Blythe,

Thanks for your reply. The powercable of the TV is indeed not earthed :-( . My TV is intentionally a metal one - a Loewe - which I bought having the intention to survive a bunch of kids. Until sofar, all Naim stuff and the Loewe TV survived. Strange that an up-market TV does not have proper earthing ...

When I need my AV2 somewhere else - then I'll try your suggested workaround.

Ardbeg10y

It's quite common. Friends with a Nait5 had exactly the same issue. I ran a cable from one of the casing screws of their DVD player to the socket plate fixing screw of one of the UK sockets, which is of course earthed - or at least should be!
This cured their 50Hz hum.

My AV2 is still solid in my home theater (250, 145, 175, Naim speakers, Runco projector, Cambridge DVD ).