In some popular holiday parts of Britain second home ownership pushes up property prices, and removes the property from availability for local home use, resulting in insufficient and unaffordable homes for local people. In such cases it can lead directly to homelessness, and to young people being unable to move out of the parental home unless they move away completely, and normal working people having to move many miles away and commute in for work, etc. it is a very real problem in some places (and I don’t think this is unique to Britain). I suspect @sound-hound may have direct personal experience, prompting his/her response, though the OP has clarified the actual situation which is somewhat different and is one of the less common instances where such ownership would seem to actually be beneficial and not negative.
Fair comment but it’s not ‘some popular holiday parts” it’s “most” and also not just holiday destinations.
This thread appears to have gone way off topic very quickly. It may have been because of the thread title, which I have amended slightly to give greater accuracy. I would advise members to get back on topic.
. Your circumstances sent you to a solution which you clearly enjoy, and isn’t that the point - enjoyment from music however it’s derived
Thanks. I’ve never used that option so far, but I’ll consider it. To be honest, in cases like this I tend to think that I am somehow misunderstanding something due to insufficient knowledge of language…
It is not, of course. This happens everywhere and not only with holiday resorts. Everything payable seems now divided into fine things for the wealthy and the rest for the rest. I still think that H-S’s reply was totally out of place. Similar remarks have been posted in reply to posts of mine, so I felt I had perfect right to do the same.
As for back to topic, I was the first to reply basically seconding the OP’s experience.
I thought it was a little long, but the article was spot on as far as Naim were concerned. Many of us have bemoaned Naim’s attention to CD - and when a mechanical mechanism fails, cannot be replaced -" such is life "
(Ned Kelly )
@StuartR I’m glad you’re enjoying your music in both your homes.
I enjoyed your post which nicely encapsulated a quite successful Hifi / music journey over 20 years or so.
May you have many more years enjoying your current system.
.sjb
I ve had a Naim CD/Flatcap2/Nait 2xs setup for years being very old skool love the tactile feel of a CD player the manual drawer ,magnetic puck load CD press ‘play’ and sit back and listen!
Tried most flavors of players Marantz,Arcam,Meriduan etc but its the Naim combo that sounds right played through Sonus Faber Lumina Amato’s
I’m still dreaming of a cd5 / flatcap / nait 5 setup. It’s like Audri Hepburn, still beautiful and great class but it will never come back.
I still have my CD5 and use it with a HiCap, Naim Service managed to replace the mech in mine back in 2020, I was lucky. I know that the repair cost was perhaps more than a replacement old unit but I bought it new in 2003 and still love the original sound I get from it. The DAC may be over 22 years old in technology but it still sounds wonderful. So will see how long I get out of it and I suppose the next time it fails then I will have to be replaced. As previous comments there are other new CD players on the market, I do stream and have Quobuz and Tidal accounts, but the services sometimes do not have the music I am looking for and so I buy the CD’s off many sites especially Discogs, this is especially the case for Japanese Jazz which I am in to.
I’m still of the opinion that the CD5/Flatcap2 was one of Naim’s finest players given the cost. I still have mine, not in use as i use two other Naim sources, but i know the little CD5/Flatcap could always drop in nicely.
My story - My Naim CD2 died years ago. I think I had it fixed once.
I still have my ES11s in one house (with an old Uniti that has a CD player… not used in years).
My 500+ CDs are now in folders - I threw away all the boxes after finding that they are basically worthless, best was a triple album of the Killers that was worth a tenner or so). I couldn’t bring myself to bin the actual CDs though.
My ES22s are upstairs with a UnitiAtom (great) and NAP180DR, downstairs I have a Qube-2 for the TV.
My main system is still all Naim - NDX2, XPSDR, 282, Supercap DR, 250DR and Kudos C2 speakers. Some superlumina cables as well that I was able to buy at a good price.
Now all my music sits on a NAS (CD and HD quality, FLAC), with various backups (another NAS and cloud). I also use Tidal, which I find pretty decent compared to Spotify.
I got into CDs late 1980’s (with a Yamaha CD1 - long gone) as maintaining a record collection was painful and keeping them clean was a nightmare. I still have a few of my old LPs gathering dust in my mums garage.
I guess my main point is - working from home, being able to listen to what I want, when I want, controlled from my Mac, Phone, iPad anywhere in the house is perfect for me.
J
I’ve just finished installing a system for a dear lady friend, consisting of:
Synology DS124 NAS
UnitiQute2
nSats
and have uploaded more than 100 albums on it for her. I’ve listened to a few over the days. In short:
You’re right. I can hear small details, different layers of sound, timbres better than I remembered. I play CDs and LPs at home. I won’t discuss the musical merits of the formats, meaning the pleasure or PR&T, but in pure terms of clarity I second your post entirely.
Dear max out of curiosity what file format do you prefer on the synology?
There are AIFFs, WAVs and mp3s. Mp3s are the free downloads of CDs I’ve physically bought on Amazon.
I cannot say that I can hear a great difference between compressed and not compressed. When I concentrate on the music, formats sound very much alike. I guess this ends my credibility as true audiophile…
No, it just means you love the music…simple.
I can listen to Kind of Blue on cassette in a car and enjoy it as much as vinyl on my home system.
Just do as the Doobie Brothers instructed all those years ago.
Please remind me… 
I’m guessing