500 Series vs. Statement?

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Sincerely hope his hearing is up to scratch

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Did he have to sit in one if the admirers seats or did he get to try the Captainā€™s chair?

Ummā€¦Iā€™m slightly uncomfortable about posting a photograph of a house that contains hugely valuable hi fi without the owners permission. It simply generates an additional security risk, and for what purpose?

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I suppose FR did not drive there and the house and its contents were already online :slight_smile: Well, I hope!

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Many of us, and owners of top-notch systems, have posted photos of our hifi gear but would never dream of posting anything that could identify where we live. That is just foolhardy and an unnecessary security risk. If the owner of the system posted a photo of his system and the outside of his house in the same article, be that offline or online, then more fool him. That, however, does not give any third party the right to replicate such thoughtless behaviour.

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I think you might be a bit harsh here, Nigel. That photo must have been publicly available so if the owner is ok with that, carelessly or not, blame should not be heaped upon someone who merely shares it. Besides, does anyone know exactly where it is? If you do, donā€™t tell !!!

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I promise not to tell.

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Mike Lavigne shows his house, room, stuffā€¦in every social media, YouTube, googleā€¦
And yes, he posted his house from the outside too.
Michael Lavorgna did the same in the ex computer audiophile site. And others. You can see on YouTube many doing that.

A bit foolish though with photo info being geotagged.

Is it?

Iā€™m not of the criminal mindset so I have no verification. I think giving out any information that could be used by the criminal fraternity is always a mistake though. I havenā€™t checked the photos in question but if photos are being posted on social media then the very least you could do is turn off the geo tagging which by default is usually turned on.

I am confused. Is it turned on for these fotos? If not, or if you donā€™t know, I donā€™t see your point, sorry

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It was a general comment.

Iā€™m out of this pointless argument.

The wording was just confusing, is all

According to @Richard.Dane the Naim forum removes all embedded tags. Of course software updates might affect this feature one day.

Phil

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That is reassuring, Phil.

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Yes, any embedded tags, re. location etc. are removed when images are uploaded.

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I had this initially - it was so overbearing that after a few days I was feeling a bit sick at times from the intense sub-sonic levels of bass from the S800 - mine are driven Active via 3x 500DR.

But I found out how to fix it totally and posted that years back, but in case it got missed:

I found the ā€˜problemā€™ when you resolve more LF energy correctly into the fundamental notes and donā€™t disperse it into higher-harmonic side-bands as distortion products is that you ā€˜get more low-bassā€™ - but it is correct - it is just that this gives everything else a bigger problem.

System set-up issues become more critical - but most important by orders of magnitude in this case, with S1 Pre, is to ensure the NAP500 Head unit is both well-away from its 500PS and that even more important the 500PS is not next to any other large transformer item - and in my case especially another 500PS.

Once I used Meduim Fraim levels and an empty Standard level to space-apart the 500PS then all my ā€˜room resonanceā€™ problems vanished.
The overbearing subsonic bass went and a nice firm solid bass structure appeared that Iā€™d never had on my system before - it just sounded happy - mission accomplished! :bear:

And this has kept me happy with the overall presentation for many years. :slightly_smiling_face:

DB.

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Hi DB, would you gauge this to be enough distance between the S1 transformer and the 500 head unit please? Best Peter