How long does the screen/display work on the ndx2 before it need to be changed ? Is it made to be used nonstop, Or is it better to choose “Turn off during playback” in settings to avoid problem in future ?
What’s the cost to repair/change it ?
I don’t know, I keep mine on whenever the NDX2 is in use. It’s a totally different design to the first gen streamers. My estimate is that it will last as long as a laptop screen.
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I don’t recall anyone posting here mentioning an ndx2 screen replacement. For costs you would need to ask your Naim dealer.
The screen for me doesn’t not display anything of interest. I have it set to off during playback; though it’s not completely off, it springs to life on occasion momentarily.
The screen is really useful and part of the reason we have an NDX2 as transport, not an ND5XS2.
But it’s only useful when scrolling favourites/inputs or checking what is currently playing (1 button press on remote).
Other than that our display is off during playback. The display is actually quite distracting in a darkened room.
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For me it’s a visual queue of the album or track playing. I have my ndx2 low in my Fraim so not distracting in a darkened room. To me this is a real plus… I don’t like being wedded to an iPad or iPhone which otherwise might make this display superfluous.
For me the ndx2 display is a key part of the listening experience … be hard to move away from it if I ever need to… hence why it’s always on for me.and one of the reasons I choose the ndx2. It’s like when I listen to my albums when I have a TT I like to stand my album covers on display, or my CD covers on display when listening to them.
I have an ND555, which has the same (?) screen as the NDX2. I have it set to be off during playback, but unfortunately it still flashes on occasionally between albums. In my opinion it’s a distraction. It doesn’t convey any information that’s not displayed on the iPad or iPhone and besides, it’s too far away to be read. I have long been asking for a switch to allow the user to turn the screen off fully.
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I have just spotted this post:
I’m a bit unsure about making changes in the web client, but if I were to select ‘Display Off’ in the switch shown in the linked image, would that permanently disable it? If so, I wonder why the firmware developers have been reluctant to offer that solution.
Clive I think it’s because that web client offers endless opportunities for someone to brick their unit if they deliberately or inadvertently do the wrong thing and so Naim don’t want the existence of it to become generally known.
To make wide use of that one parameter, they would still need to write and release some special firmware and there are just a whole lot of more important jobs ahead of that in the queue.
So it would seem, David, but I’ll continue reminding them every so often on the Beta threads.
C’mon David – it surely couldn’t take long at all to port that function over to the menu UI in the App as part of a next update – that’s one handed whilst drinking coffee stuff for a software designer…the code is clearly there in place within the firmware that the web client is accessing….
The 2 months of subsequent ‘Beta Testing’ is perhaps more the reason for the backed up queue of ‘things to do’….! 
SC
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Naim have a bit of a blind spot with regard to the screen implementation, streamers costing a fraction of the price do a considerably better job exploiting much better functionality. I think Naim left it to the work experience intern to have a go.
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Not sure the is entirely accurate or fair - I remember with the Gen2 streamer development there was much design engineering effort going into the screens to avoid interference and minimise impacts on SQ - which was a difference compared to the Gen 1 streamers
I’m referring to functionality & UI
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I don’t bother with the screen. It’s just off during use. I only use the NDX2 as a Roon endpoint, so the Roon controller on my iPad or Macbook Air is all I need.
I rarely use it anyway. Vinyl rules the roost.
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Those instructions are pretty clear for anyone that finds it valuable.
There is always factory reset if someone loses themselves, however it is fair to say that if unsure, leave alone.
As I understand it, there are things you can change via the web client which are not relevant to or intended to be altered in the Naim application of the bought-in streamer board, some of which break the unit’s functioning in Naim streamers and which aren’t reset by a factory reset (because it’s a reset of the streamer not the bought-in component).
So if someone has a play and does something unwise, it would mean the streamer going back to the factory to be diagnosed and fixed. So that’s why Naim doesn’t want the web client being used by relatively uninformed customers.
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Yet for those that are capable, it offers a lot of very useful functionality; functionality that there is no excuse for not being available in the app since it is over six years since release.
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