Hi-Fi Corner

Went to the Hi-Fi Show yesterday to hear all the latest kit. Let me tell you straight away it was very dissapointing. A few big names were missing including Rega. I think alot to do with the sound was the terrible rooms, some were very tiny. I'm not...

Any good web links/dealers for phono carts. Due to only 2 decent dealers in N Ireland I could well end up taking a chance believing reviews and ordering on line.Just got stageline to reintroduce myself to vinyl after 10 years. Rega p2 resuscitated and...

Now I don't have to much to spend but was wondering on any potential plus points to a specialized mains block.Right now all my kit goes into a four way plug thing, that is to say all the wores go into the special plug which can except four wires. It...

Remaining items to give away:Din to BNC Naim CD interconnect.New rubber feet for LP12.Transit bolt for CD3.A pair of NA 328 boards for early CDPsLP12 Lid and/or hardboard baseboard.Up to 6 rather beautiful aluminium cones (you have to convinve me you...

Having remained content with my system for the best part of the last decade I recently took the plunge & purchased a bare CDX which I'm delighted with. The trouble is this sparked an interest in keeping an eye out for a s/h pre-amp - I assumed an 82 would be a large upgrade from my 62. Whilst having a grape juice too many last night I jokely said to my lovely wife that there was for sale locally an even better one - a 52. ***Top Tip guys - ask permission when your better half has also had a...

Firstly, we at Neat Acoustics would like to say a big thanks to Naim (and to Doug Graham in particular) for the loan of the excellent Naim gear we used at the Novotel show last week.Here is our very own Show report;Scoring is on a scale of 0 to 5,...

Has anyone noticed that, when a disc is playing and you press previous or next on the cd player to select a particular track, the sound is inferior than if you press stop then press previous or next to select the track and then play?Try it, its...

I have made quite a lengthy posting on the Mana Forum which I don't wish to copy here, so I shall provide the link. http://manaforum.atinfopop.com...2298155&m=8464058931 Enjoy... It's always a nice day for it, have a good one Steve [This message was edited by Steven Toy on FRIDAY 21 September 2001 at 05:41.]

I'm a member in a stereo forum in Israel. The members in this forum have different systems ranging from the cheapest home cinema systems to the top and famous manufacturers.There are few kinds of approaches to HiFi - as some of the members are young...

Does it exist?I've had a Dynavector 10x4 for over 2 months and have developed a love hate relationship with it, but finally decided to change it last week. As Sod's law dictates however it has now improved not suddenly but gradually and sneakily over...

Do you measure from the back of the speaker? or from some other point? Thanks,Jay

I've been rummaging through some of my old TT odds and sods and found my 45RPM adaptor, languishing now I have the Lingo.They're fairly expensive, so the first person to reply to this thread gets it for free. Leave an email address, if not in your...

After being bombarded several times with active systems made up of Genesis 1.1/FM Acoustics or 3 NAP500s/DBLs, it really is so tempting to go active. No room treatments, yet totally awesome bass and dynamics. Until I can afford some DBLs (the NBLs are...

I wasn't sure where to put this (Padded Cell? Not on this Forum at all?), but it is a kit-related note and I figure folks here may use a DVD player in a second, AV-type system.So...I got the Toshiba SD-2300 and the DVD playback is very good -...

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When we lived in Saudi, space in our living room was tight. This forced us to put the tv in the corner of the room, with the speakers against different walls, either side of the tv. The walls were at 90 degrees to each other, but the speakers pointed...

Howdy folks,Well, after 5 hours of owning and 2,5 hours of listening to my new CDX I can honestly say:"It sounds GREAT!"I couldn't even imagine that the improvements over my previous CD-3.5 + f/c would be that big.The CD-3.5 sounds like a CD-player. A...

Behind the speakers or behind the stereo?Don't know what the deal is with interference etc, my plug socket is right behind the stereo at the moment and speaker cable is as well, I am trying to quieten down the transformer hum.Apparantly the plug I am...

I have a pair of 135s ... At loud volumes, the fan starts up, but usually just the left channel.Is this normal that only 1 unit's fans start up while the other doesn't ? Or must they always start up together ?TIA

The 82 and the 52 have the possibility to record a source while listening to another one.I had this possibility with my QED and never used it.As Naim are paying a lot of attention to each detail, I guess this extra feature costs quite a lot, so don't...

Since landing my shiny new (well one and a half year old) CDX I have come to the conclusion that I own next to no HDCDs. The only one I have actually noticed is a copy of The hissing of summer lawns by Joni Mitchell. Ok, what is HDCD, and is it...

Howdy folks,As some of you might remember:The plan was that I'd get me a 1,2 year old CDX delivered,just two days ago.Well, that deal is off. The owner of that particular CDX decided at the last moment to keep it for a while. Bummer,but O,well...life...

http://www.hifichoice.co.uk/review_read.asp?ID=1170Take a look at it. It is quite good and I believe that all Naim low level cd players (Cd3, CD3.5 and CD5) share the same sonic signature as pointed out in the review (mine is the CD3)

Just perusing the loot site and notice both a 32.5 and 42.5 for sale.I currently have a 92/90, so would either of these preamps be better (significantly) than the 92 and would they be compatible with a flatcap and the 90?Cheers folks, damn this...

I'll bet there's a long thread on this somewhere. Tony Lonorgan remarked, in reference to Mana stands, that coins under the spikes are not a wholly good thing.I'll be moving to a very nice hardwood floored room soon, and I don't want to have spike...