What’s the box on top Ian?
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Streamer/amp.
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An amp, with VU meters
Groovy man 
Ian
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They look good and in light of recent events here they may well become an option for Aussies not wishing to throw money down a rabbit hole. There’s also a small write up in the new Hi Fi Choice mag about them but oddly there’s no mention of the new Naim gear other than in an ad for a hi fi shop.
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Just had a lovely evening with my Nova and Harbeth P3ESR, first a pork chop with a pint of organic cider , a couple of large glasses of calvados Jacqueline Du Pres on my ClearAudio turntable followed by Joni Mitchell on the CD
Mrs Houdini on my lap , my Naim gear sounded wonderful , but it doesn’t have VU meters …
As I’ve said on numerous occasions , a CD transport would make a lot of sense
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Audiolab also introducing a series 9000 streamer
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There you go, you have an option. Although the way prices are crashing here you maybe able to pick up a brand new NDX2 for 2 or 3 grand. 
or a ND5XS2 for under a grand.
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Ha ha
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You two 
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I bought the Audiolab transport a few months back however I don’t seem to use it as much as I thought I would. I was hoping there’d be a different sound but while the transport sounds slightly better it’s not enough to warrant getting up and grabbing a cd and playing it.
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I have a CDX2 , Naim serviced it and I asked for it to be changed to a digital output, it goes with my Nova like a pork chop and cider …
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That’s because you are a true streaming one -eyed gent 
And you have a hole in the middle of your black vinyl heart.
Indeed 
Streaming some jazz and have to say it sounds fantastic. Even Mrs Pete commented and she very rarely says anything about my music although she does say a lot about most other things. 
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Jazz is good - lots of enthusiastic forum people, particularly on the vinyl thread by the looks of it
Purchased one yesterday from red eye - Blue Mitchell and band, he was a trumpet player well known in the 60’s
He was part of a jazz blues band put together by John Mayall in the early 70’s , saw them in 1972 in Christchurch Town Hall N.Z
Released live album with Mayall called “Jazz Blues Fusion” it’s really good
Mayall the only guy alive today at 89 - all the other members of band, American Jazz artists all passed away from cancer
What was the last HDCD player Naim ever made?
Can,t you return it to Harry?
I could but I’ll keep it anyway. Always go to have a back source.
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I find the only time I stick on a disc is when I have a stack of new music on CD arrive that is not available for HD download (so most of the time still sadly), and I might stick a couple on while ripping the rest.
That said, even with RAID1 redundancy on the NAS and separate cold backup drive of all my music, I like knowing I have yet another layer of fallback in the player and boxes of CDs that I can drag out of storage.
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