if you follow this logic, people who bought HICAP for so many years were deaf and did not hear the difference with and without it?British intentions are always the same - charge a fortune for a band aid and a rubber oring . They used Op- amps and that's the reason for 15v .
Separate power supply was used when phono boards were common in preamps . Finkelstein had his morning schnitzel and suddenly it downed on him " why don't we offer four or five belts in the road to mastery? Each belt. will cost 10.000 shekels and the last a biggest trans will be reserved to Rabin class only - genius.! Turntables are no more but the transformers sell like a hot cakes especially in USA where everything is measured and valued by the size.
The best were from Helgen und Fischer and they had to be black . Go figure
I agree with most of your claims. But there's no way, to live in the NAIM's ecosystem. You also need to consider selling them later. Because you might like other amplifiers.British intentions are always the same - charge a fortune for a band aid and a rubber oring . They used Op- amps and that's the reason for 15v .
Separate power supply was used when phono boards were common in preamps . Finkelstein had his morning schnitzel and suddenly it downed on him " why don't we offer four or five belts in the road to mastery? Each belt. will cost 10.000 shekels and the last a biggest trans will be reserved to Rabin class only - genius.! Turntables are no more but the transformers sell like a hot cakes especially in USA where everything is measured and valued by the size.
The best were from Helgen und Fischer and they had to be black . Go figure
What else they supposed to buy ? The preamps come without transformer. Its a lovely made piece. You can't compare adding a CAP to integrated because Naim handicaps integrates with single rail PSU and all the caps offer 2 rails. Still there are some people who prefer them without Caps. Hardly anybody experiments because it's a niche product for a circle of buttheads but wouldnt decent IE core sound better ? It's an also a question of how much transformer should cost. Obviously it can cost as much as a car...if you follow this logic, people who bought HICAP for so many years were deaf and did not hear the difference with and without it?
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The generalizations will always exist because every clan considers itself being better than the other clans. It's a genetic code of millions of years of evolution and the condition for survival. Just take the joke even if it is in a bad taste and even worse manners as long as it is rather harmless. Also there are general cultural traits you can't erase. It is well known fact that British hifi industry is surviving only thanks to Asian market for " antiques " and prevalent respect for tradition.
Naim. Signal routing and grounding scheme has a technical explanation but it is a constant object of questioning. In my opinion they only keep it for legacy reasons and for the cool factor of being different. Indeed buying $100k of gear to hook it up with 10 cents worth of general purpose mains wire does not sound very audiophile but if it works it works. They are late to the party but Lumina series of cables supposed to mitigate that fact.
I find Oleg's position slightly off the topic since he also deals with cheapest Naim with his tribute band activity and its not the Naim own forum where out of courtesy you simply can't spit in their face while enjoying sitting at their table.
I was listening to cheap Naim in form of Supermait preamp and Naim 5 power amp combo ( Some on PFM think Supernait is not as refined as Nait5 ) and for a change hooked up the old Naim ie the power section of Nait3 . Uhhh that was cruel and had shaken my faith in old Naim and I started to think like one of Naimees meaning " damn , I should probably think about re-cap " haha . The dude who sold me faulty Supernait was semi convinced that it needs the recap to bring it full glory.
According to " my fat Greek wedding " the solution is Windex and I have it on shelf. I will spray it in the evening into Supernait
Re-sale value is the main thing in today's audio. Nothing else counts.
WowThe generalizations will always exist because every clan considers itself being better than the other clans. It's a genetic code of millions of years of evolution and the condition for survival. Just take the joke even if it is in a bad taste and even worse manners as long as it is rather harmless. Also there are general cultural traits you can't erase. It is well known fact that British hifi industry is surviving only thanks to Asian market for " antiques " and prevalent respect for tradition.
Naim. Signal routing and grounding scheme has a technical explanation but it is a constant object of questioning. In my opinion they only keep it for legacy reasons and for the cool factor of being different. Indeed buying $100k of gear to hook it up with 10 cents worth of general purpose mains wire does not sound very audiophile but if it works it works. They are late to the party but Lumina series of cables supposed to mitigate that fact.
I find Oleg's position slightly off the topic since he also deals with cheapest Naim with his tribute band activity and its not the Naim own forum where out of courtesy you simply can't spit in their face while enjoying sitting at their table.
I was listening to cheap Naim in form of Supermait preamp and Naim 5 power amp combo ( Some on PFM think Supernait is not as refined as Nait5 ) and for a change hooked up the old Naim ie the power section of Nait3 . Uhhh that was cruel and had shaken my faith in old Naim and I started to think like one of Naimees meaning " damn , I should probably think about re-cap " haha . The dude who sold me faulty Supernait was semi convinced that it needs the recap to bring it full glory.
According to " my fat Greek wedding " the solution is Windex and I have it on shelf. I will spray it in the evening into Supernait
Re-sale value is the main thing in today's audio. Nothing else counts.