Forum rules

Welcome to the Naim Forum

Once you have registered on the forum, please ensure you have read through and understood the forum rules - these rules apply whether you have read them or not. We hope none of these will limit the free and wide-ranging discussions that we have traditionally allowed and encouraged on the forum, but for widest comprehension, please ensure your posts are in the English language. Posts in other languages will be moderated.

Feel free to contribute, but remember that the best place for definitive advice on Naim hi-fi or for product support is from your Naim dealer or Naim HQ!

We take protection of your data seriously. If you register to participate on our discussion forum your information will be held on servers located in the UK by third party service providers, Amazon Web Services, Inc and Linode LLC. and accessed by Naim Audio ltd. for the purposes of administering the forum.

Here is a link to Amazon Web Services, Inc Policy: AWS Privacy

Here is a link to Linode LLC Policy: https://www.linode.com/privacy

You may read Naim Audio’s Privacy Policy here: Privacy Policy | Naim Audio

If you have any questions regarding your personal information then please do not hesitate to contact Naim Audio.

SEARCH - Please try a Search first (try various combinations of ‘key words’ from your query) before posting your query. The forum has been going in a few different incarnations for a long time now and most questions will have been asked before - some many, many times.

QUOTES - Please, when answering, consider whether you really HAVE to quote. If you do - please edit the quote to keep it as short and relevant as possible.

FAQ - Frequently Asked Questions can be found in their own room. Please look here first before asking in other rooms.

FORUM RULES -

No Reps – any attempts by a member to promote their commercial interests will result in moderation and a ban.

No For Sale or Wanted ads! (includes free gifts, services, and loans of equipment) - this includes transparent or oblique references to equipment for sale or equipment being sought - sometimes this will be a judgement call. ALL links to, or mentions of, equipment For Sale will be moderated.

Only one membership is allowed per person. If multiple memberships are discovered then we may contact you. To this end please ensure that your application details (not public) are accurate, including your real name, and please ensure your email address is kept valid and up to date.

Please ensure that your chosen avatar is not a picture likely to cause offence. Please avoid the use of trademarks or copyrighted images. As an extension of this, if you either use, copy or link to an image in your posts that is not your own, please ensure you have sought permission to do so from the copyright holder. Naim cannot be held responsible for images used or linked to on this site. All responsibility will rest with the members. Likewise, if you are the owner of any image and you feel that it has been used by someone on the forum in a way that falls outside of fair use provisions, then please let Naim Audio know by email so we can act on it appropriately. As an extension to this rule, please do not post any GIFs (or use a GIF as an avatar), as they can cause stress and even seizures for people with certain forms of epilepsy.

The forum embraces all members regardless of background or whether you own any Naim equipment or not. What unites us all is a passion for music, hifi and Naim. To that end we have decided that best harmony is maintained where any and all religious and political discussion is left at the door. Please refrain from making overtly political or religious comment here. Posts deemed to be religious or political (including jokes) will be removed at moderators discretion.

Please ensure you refrain from posting anything that might reasonably be considered as racist, sexist, homophobic, defamatory, or personally insulting to other members.

Please do not post links to specific retailer’s websites. Naim retailer contact details are available from Find a Retailer http://www.naimaudio.com/find-a-retailer and the forum is not the place to favour particular retailers.

With this in mind - please do not post “live” links to commercial hi-fi or other commercial websites and please do not link or make any reference to discussions posted on other forums or social media platforms (there’s a little leeway given here re. music release announcements, at moderators discretion). Any links posted in the Hi-fi Corner that are deemed by the moderators to have any commercial purpose, or that have further links therein that lead to commercial websites, will be removed.

We do not permit discussion of modifications to internal components of Naim equipment and this also extends, at the Moderators’ discretion, to products from other manufacturers and electronic DIY discussion. This also applies to discussion of companies who undertake unauthorised modifications to Naim equipment.

Modification extends to the use of 3rd party or home-made power supplies and any cabling that carries DC power between Naim equipment.

This rule applies especially to the case fuses fitted within our equipment. There is a blanket and strict ban on such topics and it includes euphemistic phrases that ultimately reference such practices and attempt to circumvent the restriction.

An extension of this is discussion of alterations to the mains wiring, sockets, plugs, fuses and mains leads. Some exchanges about this can take place in the Lounge but will be subject to moderation on a precautionary basis. Excessive/obsessive discussion will also be closed or removed.

A further extension of this is discussion relating to unauthorised modification to Naim firmware or software.

Members who are part of the Naim Beta group and who have access to the Beta forum should not discuss or divulge or share information on the public forums or elsewhere about anything in Beta testing.

Occasionally a member will be banned or asked to be removed from membership.

Although we will not announce this (being a private matter between the member and forum moderators) we may moderate your post if you make mention of that member.

As they are unable to respond - it would be unfair to allow negative posts and, as we need to be discreet in our responses, there would be no useful point in raking over the details of their removal. With this in mind, we will remove such references and contact you to require that you desist. Any attempt to continue to promote the previously moderated opinions and arguments (on that person’s behalf) of a banned member will also be subject to moderation and may lead to the poster being moderated and/or removed from the forum.

As an extension of this, members are asked not to discuss moderation matters, whether relating to yourself or to others, on the forum. The moderators cannot discuss these matters publicly so we ask that you do not do so either. If you have any queries regarding any moderation matter then you should contact either the Forum moderators or Naim.

A couple of individuals and companies have, in the past, expressed a strong desire not to have either their names mentioned or products discussed on the Naim forum and we are happy to oblige (including here). Any mention of their names or the names of their products will be moderated accordingly.

Members who appear to be trying to push any kind of agenda on the forum may well be placed under moderation or removed from the forum.

All direct enquiries and/or forum queries should be made to Naim Audio info@naimaudio.com.

If you wish to contact me regarding any forum matter, including account issues, then please email Naim on info@naimaudio.com, and mark your mail for my attention.

Thanks and best wishes, Richard.

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