I’ve had mine done over the years and it’s always been an excellent outcome.
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B 300 might be dead. If you rate it against naim poweramps where would you place it? I liked it but they are uncommon in Sweden
That’s a shame, I’ve never owned a Naim power amp, just integrateds, XS2, Supernait 3 (both with Hicap dr) and now two Nait 50’s.
On Densen I started with the Beat 100 integrated and quite quickly added the B300 as I had B&W 805n speakers and used the amps to biamp them.
Comparing the sound signature of the Densen’s to the Naims they have similar characteristics of big focus on timing, Thomas Sillison (I will have spelt that wrong, apologies) the “Head Honcho” of Densen had a tagline of “life’s too short for boring hifi” and their gear embodied it.
Naim similarly likes to bring a performance to its sound.
I’d say the Naim sound is a touch dryer compared to Densen, which trades some Naim slam for increased bounce and fluidity.
Densen probably has a more romantic interpretation of music to Naim being more matter of fact, both hugely listenable to.
I’ve also never owned a Naim power amp so can’t comment on them. However I can highly recommend the Nait XS3
I owned a SN2 in the past and it was good but there’s something about the XS3’s sound…. It’s so very musical and definitely has the Naim boogie factor. It has such an addictive sound to it
I purchased my XS3 virtually brand new for less than £1.1k with a full warranty and I love it
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Not sure that tagline is created by Thomas, which BTW no longer is manager of Densen.
At the time I bought my amps he was President and founder but was often cited to go by the title “head honcho” in articles, if you goggle it you will find it.
Also this is the owner manual for my amps and you’ll see the tagline at the bottom an it was used extensively again by them in interviews and reviews.
Fully realise he left the company some time ago and currently they are more of a servicing outfit than a front line manufacturer. Although they did have some new products promised for around a year ago and still allude to that on their website.
Yep, Thomas was a great marketeer - he solely did peak my interest for Onix amplifiers back in the days when he distributed them locally. Actually I believe he adapted some of the good bits from OA21s to implement in the Beat amps.
I’ve seen or heard next to nothing from current Densen, since his departure, not that Densen ever was high on my list anyway.
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