@Wilfried - just put the Bonn NX into my stack and I don’t think it’s going back. Haven’t even put the forester fx in yet.
I had done the best to sort the rest of my system and networking out and the comparison is with a ee8+forester f1 using the EE1 and EE1 plus - so not a basic switch.
Seems a little brighter - but more leading edge - and foot tapping involuntarily from first notes.
I’ll let in settle in before more comments but happy so far with my spend of usd 2K. The forester fx I paid 2400 for - let’s see what that does… - I’ll put it in later today. Got both units second hand.
Vocals more prominent. More separation, involuntary toe tapping.
Limit to your love by James Blake - bass line finally super precise.
All good things.
About the price to value: for new prices, I think I’d rather do the Bonn NX/Forester NX than a second 555DR on my ND555. As it is, used prices in the US for the CD555 are about 5K now.. so this used was still less than that.
TBH - I wasn’t expecting much - since the Naim streamer downloads the music and that shouldn’t take more than a second or so at the beginning of the music. But maybe the streamer also preloads music at the end of the track in anticipation of the next piece starting so you’d expect improvements just then. Or maybe it does trickle downloads all the time… I don’t know….
Roon should even better now / since the clock actually would matter and I would expect Qobuz connect to sound better now.. let’s see… but since that’s flac and not wav I still don’t expect it to sound as good as purchased music.