Peter, much better to use the proper Naim shims on the metal feet. All the metal footed kit was shimmed level on one the special alloy plates before being packed. Of course, re-shimming by the dealer was often necessary when delivered to a customer. As the metal feet have no give or tolerance, ensuring there’s absolutely no rocking at all between the four feet makes a BIG difference to overall performance.
IB, it’s because when Naim tried three feet against four, four sounded better.
That can’t be dust Peter. Surely it’s vibratory mass damping for the glass shelf???
I use it too, extensively
Best regards, BF
Yes i guess anything would sound acceptable after that
Makes perfect sense
Are you implying that a 552 on 3 feet sounded perfectly cushty but on 4 feet was lovely jubbly?
Hi Richard, are the shims you mention readily available to buy and what size/thickness are the please. I have used the same principle with folded alu foil under one leg on each of my Facts outriggers to stabilise them on my Townsend podiums. Admittedly the beauty of aluminium foil is that you can fold it to not be visible ( at least under the speakers).
I sense an urge growing to address the messy looking tweak under the CD555, nothing to do with OCD of course….much! Best Peter
Back in my day, they were supplied to dealers gratis. I’d guess it’s still the same, but not sure as it’s been a long time since I was at Naim. The aluminium shims are round with a hole and wafer thin. Best to ask your dealer for a few.
One person’s tweak…
I just bit the bullet, made a change, and dramatically improved SQ. I didn’t buy inch-thick speaker cables or an arcane power supply or anything complicated. Instead, I finally admitted that the character and history attached to some of my favourite LPs didn’t make up for the vinyl being knackered from much use and a fair amount of abuse over 30 or 40 years.
Sensibly chosen new copies of Red, Scary Monsters, Hejira and the like are unreasonably expensive of course, but replacing my 30 most-worn LPs has cost a lot less than (say) a second-hand Lingo 4. While the latter is indeed audibly better than a Lingo 1, removing all the crackles and clicks with new vinyl made a much bigger difference to enjoyment, without any of the different compromises that streaming off the NDX2 brings, and not just because the extra quietness encourages me to turn it up a bit.
I am not sure whether this counts as a tweak or an upgrade, and it will be irrelevant to dedicated digital-ists, but upgrading vinyl should not be forgotten when trying to improve the experience - I ignored it for too long, and I suspect I am not the only one.
Isn’t there an argument that it should just work and in this day and age do you think people really want to swinging their burndies etc.
To answer the question I will tweak if it’s free i.e. try to run leads as recommended anything else is an upgrade
Sounds totally reasonable to me. I have bought better condition copies of some favourite albums and don’t regret it at all.
I do however sometimes break out my worn copies, the particular sound of the patina brings back memories. I love streaming for how it has broadened my musical horizons. But sometimes that hit of past memories is fab too 8)
To the Nth degree.
Where N is an unknown quantity!
Tending to infinity?
Similar to the calculation for the number of black boxes required for the ideal system =(n + 1) where n is the number of black boxes currently owned?
I don’t know… it’s unknown!
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(You knew that response was coming, didn’t you!)
That’s vaguely similar to the solution to the problem that occurs when a second infinite bus arrives at the infinite hotel.
The solution to that is to delicately split infinitives!
Does that mean splitting it only using manoeuvring thrusters, rather than deploying impulse power or warp drive?
(Followed by a chorus of “There’s Klingons on the starboard bow…”.)
And I always thought you had to boldly split infinitives.
Roger