Whether to do is a purely personal decision no-one can help you with, other than members of your affected family, snd best work that through before even bothering thinking further. I’ve normally sold on each box after upgrading as part funding and never upgraded multiple things at once, so never been in this position.
In my own case we have two lounges, one is the music room in which the hi-fi sits, also the projector and screen and associated surround sound system. The other is a sunroom and has a television in it. My wife doesn’t choose to sit and listen to music, and doesn’t like 90% of the music I like, but she likes watching TV more than me, or sitting in silence with a book, and loves the heat of the sunroom when sun is or has been out. A hi-fi system in the sunroom would be pointless, other than odd occasions watching a dramatic movie on the TV rather than big screen. And I’ve never considered a system in the bedroom as primary purpose is sleep, and whilst we have the radio on for local news when getting up or with a cup of tea beforehand, a music sccm would distract from anything else.
You could use your Nait 5i and BW speakers as the front pair for your TV, if the TV has an output. Feed that output to the Nait and enable av bypass mode. The amp and speakers will then be controlled by the TV volume control.
Personally, I think you’ve done a great job of utilising ‘spare’ equipment.
Your vinyl wrapping of your old speakers (that appear to have age - related colour change behind the grilles anyway) looks very neat.
I did similar with some marked Denon SC M5K speakers (built in the UK by Mission) that I bought from eBay. I used a black carbon wrap as I thought it might hide any imperfections (in the surface or my workmanship) better than a plain gloss. The finish has held up perfectly and they are currently used in our daughter’s room.
Yes yours look great. It does clean the look up. I feel like I have a new pair of speakers.
I’ve just ordered the Wiim ultra, 5pin din to 2RCA cable and a pair of 3.5m NAC A5s to hook it all up to my spare NAIT 5i. I will let you know how it goes.
I think we all knew the second system option would always win out!
Enjoy your new system - sounds ideal as a TV - based system. I see the Wiim has both optical and HDMI inputs - just what you need for a TV interface/hub of your new system.
Just to second that, bought the same telly and dealer told me to give it a go without connecting it to a UnitiQute in order to see if sound was good enough. For sure is, and UQ now serves in another room as a 3rd system!
Just a quick update in case anyone else has the same issue.
System set up as above, but ended up with a major hum. I assumed it was the usual naim grounding issue, but the standard suggested solutions did not help. It turned out to be because the TV was only connected to Sky via HDMI and there was no coaxial standard aerial connected. I earthed the aerial input on the TV and the hum is gone.
Wow. This combination sounds amazing. Obviously I had this kit largely spare, but if you were to put it together via the secondhand market you’d have a really lovely sounding system for about £800. Amazing. I would thoroughly recommend it.
She actually quite liked them! She thinks aesthetically something needed to be at the side and previously it was a plant on a stand, so these now fulfil that role which I think helped. The fact that I didn’t spend crazy money also helped.
She was keen for me to run any further changes by her ( fair enough) but when I mentioned that I needed some cables she said “oh I’m not bothered about stuff like that. It’s the big expensive stuff I want to approve.”! Oh dear! If only she knew! Still there’s no way even with that tacit agreement that I’ll be rushing down to the Shunyata shop anytime soon.
I set up in the lounge alongside “my” sofa, a small unit with some spares… Raspberry Pi/MoOde streamer, Musical Fidelity V-DAC2/V-PSU1, Headline2/NAPC2 driving Senn 800S cans.
