Here’s a pic - with dog…
Naim, Dog, Shahinian… Perfect
Of course lying on the floor like that makes her a subwoofer…
Seems like the perfect dog for a Naim owner! Lots of diffusive elements!
What kind is it?
Hey stacking order on the right? Is it just digital 555DR, analog 555DR, 552 and then 500 at the bottom?
And have you done anything special to avoid having the cables touch the floor?
PS stacking order top to bottom is 500 then digi 555, 552 and analogue 555 with the order chosen both to keep cables off the floor and to keep the supplies for the most sensitive components away from the 500 PS
The speaker cables just lie on the floor.
Molly is an Old English Sheepdog (Dulux Dog) with a haircut because she is otherwise both blind and too hot…
Thanks! I’ll try this approach at some point!
I have just been trawling through the GIK website looking at room treatment. All I really need to do is get me an Old English Sheepdog and train it to lie down at the reflection point.
Job done!
Just like to add my first impression of adding 2nd 555PS to ND555, I’m not going back.
I also need to thank everyone for their advice on mains plug order. I’d never considered this until I read this and other threads a few weeks ago. Again a surprisingly good improvement to overall SQ and image depth.
Welcome!
Hi I am interested in this album (LOG 5) can you give me more info???
I discovered this made a large impact by accident and then trial and error a few years ago when I first used two 555PS with my then CD555. I found the same approach works well with ND555 too.
The two PS ND555 is very revealing of when you get it right or wrong I found - get it right and you are in a music heaven - wrong and you are different shades of unhappy with timing and odd sonic effects.
Once I found what worked - even though I’m certain there are better solutions to be had - what I found works and that means all music just is ‘there’ and I’m in it and thought of upgrades are out of mind.
Once you get ‘there’ with a good source into a good system that is set-up well to express it into a suitable room then declare victory and enjoy!
DB.
Yesterday, the bottom shelf was empty. Today a new loaner 555PS inhabits the bottom shelf.
Looks better I reckon and might just be a keeper on looks alone!..
It’s now been sitting in the brawn rack for about 8 hours, but it had a difficult start as having sat in a FedEx warehouse overnight on the coldest night of the year, the case was almost too cold to touch at 1pm this afternoon and I felt obligated to put it in front of a radiator and a sunny window for an hour or so before installation, not knowing what damage might be done by plugging it in so cold…
It’s still nowhere near as warm to the touch as the other PS’s, so I’ll reserve judgement on absolute SQ other than to say that it sounds incredibly absorbing and I’ve never heard anything sound so much like a real piano outside of a real piano !
I found my interest in piano music increased when I got my two supplies. The space around notes and timing flows better for the micro-detail and draws you in more.
DB.
As @Richard.Dane has mentioned before plugging in a very cold unit with condensation from shipping and storage is possibly asking for trouble. So well worth spelling out for others👍
A difficult day 2, doubtless due to burn in. Nasal and recessed sounding much of the time, but with clear odd flashes of ability that my system just didn’t have before. The best moments continue to be from solo piano. Late on tonight it definitely got closer to where I’m hoping it will end up after burning in. Specifically, the below recording of Prokofiev ‘War’ sonatas. Number 8, final movement is dense, frantic and furious with, at all times, two, sometimes three ‘tunes’ being played separately at the same time and with huge dynamic contrasts between them. A real challenge for any music system. It was raucously dramatic on my old NDS, absorbing, but still slightly uncomfortable on the ND555 with one PS, but it’s now properly and rivetingly resolved by the two PS version and my knuckles can relax their grip of the sofa cushions!.. I’m sure it will get better yet - bring it on Macduff!
The capability is different with ND555 and two supplies - there is more detail resolved and that detail takes a while to get rendered properly - I had to re-do my installation with more care to the usual things - box positions and cable-dressing - especially mains-sequence, as this was all more audible.
With more resolution you hear more of the good and bad - so a bit of attention to remove the bad and you are into a far better system presentation.
With two supplies I found the plug mains-sequence important in not getting strange emphasis in voice-band. I’ve posted before on all that, but essentially I have my Pre on its own distribution block and then the ‘analogue’ 555PS (that feeds the LH Burndy into the ND555 viewed from front) next to the Pre plug - then leave a gap or two in the power block and put the ‘digital’ 555PS there so it is a bit farther from the other two.
So on the block: Mains-in - (Pre) - (Analogue PS) - (empty sockets gap) - (Digital PS).
DB.
Even with an ex demo second power supply i felt it took several days to settle in…most odd, so hang in there.
Are you brave enough to risk upsetting all the vinyl heads on here by declaring it better than your LP12?
Should be ok but I’d be concerned about any condensation within if it was that cold and you plonked it in front of a radiator!