Streaming Audio

After faithfully feeding my 1TB Serve approx 250 discs, apparently Wolves in the Throne Room's Celestial Lineage was too much.  I was greeted with the low rumble followed by "click - dzzzzzzzz".  Never bothered to back the darned thing...

Hi all,I now owm a nait 5i/cd5i combo with a sonos zp90 connected to the nait.The cd player is now the source of choice for real listening. I am looking to buy a snait to replace the 5i nait. Can i thn sell the cd player and use the sonos as source?...

Morning all, Thought I would share my experience with system automation, I think I have found something interesting, but doubt most of you don't already know. I remember a post about a gentleman struggling to get system automation working on his...

Evening all, I should receive my 3rd powerline in the next couple of days, now I think I already know the answer, but worth asking, I currently have a PL on my 200 and NDX, but my PSC2 and HC2 have the original mains cables, which one should it...

Hi Mates, Which of these two "technology" could give musically better result theoretically andpractically: Use a naim or non-naim network player as a source component ? Use a laptop + a decent high end USB/SPDIF converter...

Hi everybody, I'd like to discuss a topic here which gets IMO a bit neglected in this whole network hifi theme. We all know how important good mains quailty is for hifi gear, especially for Naim gear. We buy expensive PSUs, we have dedicated...

I've had so much useful help here in the last week, I thought I'd try again... I'd like to find an iRadio station that plays Blues at a decent bit-rate. So far, the one I've liked best is 1-FM Blues, but that plays at 128k, and yes, I can tell...

Yet another question I'm afraid. When using n-Stream and searching by artist, does n-stream search on the first letter of the Artist string, or does it use the first letter of the surname?  I ask because I want to know whether to use e.g....

My system is a classic all-olive one: CDX XPS NAC 82 NAP 250 Hi Cap Sonus Faber Minuettos Transport on my trusty 1999 vintage CDX has failed. I already spent 350 quid on it 2 years ago after a different breakdown. Thus I believe it is time to replace/upgrade. I am intrigued by some reviews of the UnitiQute, but have a few questions: 1) In purely sonic terms, how does it compare to a CDX? 2) In sonic terms, where does the Qute rank vis a vis the current lineup of Naim CDPs? (This would be...

OK so there is a plethora of producers in the market making claims that they have the best sounding Digital streaming / DAC solutions. Now as new products are announced at higher and higher prices making bigger and bigger claims for what they can do...

Hi All Have anyone done it before? Will it sound better? Awaiting advice Thank You

Just curious. Has anyone tried the following combination: NDX + XP5 XS DAC + XPS.2 Rationale behind this is less effort is needed to power the digital part (hence only XP5 used), while nDAC gets to use the more-capable XPS.2 ... While getting to...

I've already ripped my entire CD collection (FLAC) using dBpoweramp and have also downloaded some 24/192 material.- which are all stored on my NAS I'm not interested in the 'lossy' MP3 material available for download from iTunes and...

Using digital out from a ND5 XS into a Naim Dac will I get any better performance from the ND5 XS with a XPS? Or does the XPS only power the analogue parts of the ND5 XS? Currently I am using my XPS on the Naim Dac. I have yet to decide to buy a...

Has anyone done a comparison ? I appreciate that there might be "clean earth" issues, however, I am in the process of acquiring an ITX motherboard and just wondered if there are actually any difference in quality?

My first posting - brand new owner of a SU. Most things seem to be working fine, but I've had some signal losses when using Internet radio. As I've recently changed my router set-up, there are quite a number of possible causes, and I'm trying to...

Well, here I am busily using dBpoweramp to rip my CD collection whilst awaiting delivery of my NDX.  Done about 300 so far, but of the last 20, 6 have had failed rips on the last 1-3 tracks.  Beginning to wonder if I'm burning out the...

Hi friends, I bought two SACD discs from William Carter and Craig Hella Johnson. I ripped them directly (!) to ALAC using iTunes. What is strange to my opinion, is that iTunes shows bitrates in the range of 510 - 610 kbps on 16b/44.1khz, which is...

Latest issue just arrived - I'll report back later 

Dear All, I've been a long time observer of this forum but have never really felt compelled to contribute until now. After scrapping away for quite a few years now I've got a reasonable headphone setup, CD5x / Flatcap2xs / 112x /150 / Napsc/...

Hi Mates, I would like to know on your opinion on the following: What is the best way to use naim DAC to playbackmostly high resolution music files that are in FLAC format: 1. Using a network music player (naim or non...

Does anybody know the C Channel settings used by Naim on the SPDIF output on the NDX. I guess Naim are using it in a specific way for certain source types, which is perhaps why there are interoperability issues with some DACs. I also note that SPDIF...

My one as below..........  BeforeStreamer Version: 3.09.1BC SW: 11891 AfterStreamer Version: 3.09.1BC SW: 11883 My concern is why the BC SW is older than before  I already ran again the streaming update program, the...

Hi I am new in using flac format. As a surprise some of these flac files stored in a nas are showed as wav on the uniti and n- stream. What could be the reason ?

Well, I finally got the two 2TB drives for my new QNAP 219 PII.  Managed to make a pig's ear of the configuration at the first attempt (enter wrong password and checked the "remember box), so had to do a factory reset.  Eventually got it up...