Naim Chrome Bumper

Yes, I was watching that one as well and was rather surprised at what it finally sold for! It looked like a tidy example (the mini Jeff Koons made me smile too).

Yes a very tidy example. If you want one (and good examples are getting more difficult to find) then what is another £200/£300 if you have the money? You may not be willing to pay that price but clearly 2 people were. There was another that sold before that one that belonged to someone’s late father. Unused for 10 years and never serviced - £811. Covid/lockdown is driving us all slightly crazy.

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Which then opens up that old can of worms about a modern shoebox Nait… Or is it all nostalgia and I’ve got really bad hearing?

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Soul Eyes must be sounding pretty good, James!:sunglasses:

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Perhaps there already is a modern equivalent - the Rega IO.

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Brio? But, and this has been said many times before, are Naim missing an opportunity here by not going back to a shoebox Nait? The UQ was the digital Nait but what about just an amplifier? If it was too good maybe it would eat into other sales (like the Aries Mini).

Like girlfriends and cars. Never go back, keep the memory.

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:joy: :joy: sound advice

I bidded on that and lost

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Would you mind sharing what speakers are you using? I’ve got NAIM 62/140 with a HICAP Chrome Bumper on the way. I have Wharfedale Dovedale (Unit 5) that are driven by Quad 33 amp and 303 preamp. Now I am looking for loudspeakers to match with the Naim 62/140/HICAP. Many thanks and kind regards, Vlado

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Hi

Thanks for the interest, happy to help…

I have had the Naim NAC62 and NAP140 with a HICAP since the late 1980’s and I have used with Rogers BBC Studio Monitors ever since (which I had previously purchased second hand some ten or twelve years earlier, and used with various amplifiers, until I auditioned the Naim with a couple of other comparable amplifiers, and settled on the Naim). A few years I found a second hand pair of Rogers LS3/5a which I purchased to use in the dining room (bit of a hassel changing the plugs over on the back of the NAP140, so the LS3/5a have not had that much use. I drilled through the wall and fed a second set of Naim speaker cable through to connect the LS3/5a).

I have never had any funding available since those far off days to make any significant changes, and there has been no room to develop a listening room, and we never moved house. So, with changing fortunes, lack of opportunity, lack of ambition, lack of funds, lack of room, lack of … well anyway, I have been very satisfied and content with this modest system for decades - nearly half a century!

Reading elsewhere, and seeing the System photographs and What was the last bit of gear you bought, there is something I am missing somewhere…

Sorry for the length of this, but maybe it puts my system into context for you to understand my speaker choice, which my reasoning in the initial search (in the 1970’s) to find a natural and neutral sounding speaker that simply allower the source material to be transfered to the listener, and it seemed to me that anything the BBC used for monitoring would be right for my listening. It has been the case ever since…

Sorry to go on, but I hope you find what you are looking (listening) for in your speaker choice.

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New NAP 250 just arrived… just need one more to complete the set!

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Nice kit !
So its 5x250CB for Linn speakers?

Cannot guess what those boxes are… Without more info. Five 250’s…?

Thanks!

Yes, five NAP 250s. Actually 6 x NAP 250s is my ultimate goal: I have split Isobariks, so can use 6 amps to drive them. (See the schematic below). I think my NAXO 3-6 (CB, naturally ;0) will need to be modified to allow this set-up.

Surely this means THREE 250’s - not 6…? Or are you intending to use just ! channel of each 250 - sort of like a 135…?

Confused.Here…

Look at the schematic above. My 'Briks have been split so that each one is two separate speakers with two sets of inputs on the back. They’re the type with the dual Xover in the base.

Ah ok, so you can connect each NAP directly to an HP, even the second. I was not aware about this version. This is a completly crazy setup, 6xNAP250 … or that would be 12x135 … you need a nuclear plant in your garden :slight_smile:

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Also bear in mind that discussion here of modifying a SNAXO outside of Naim’s specification and design falls outside of forum AUP.

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What about using two NAXO?

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