64pF/m is perfectly OK, thats not high C & typical of what you might find with a lot of ‘normal’ single conductor pair type cables on the market.
High C is such as Litz type & plaited/braided cables, these are typically in the 200pF/m & above range
Very happy to believe it’s okay. I only have a Uniti Star, so not that relevant to me anyway, but it is over 3 times what JV apparently stated as the MAX (in capitals), in the section “Relevant specs”.
20pF/m effectively means NACA4 (or A5) or another brand with the 15mm conductor spacing.
I can understand the need for inductance loading, but capacitance is far more complex being associated with the intricacies & huge variables of speaker capacitive reactance, this has a far greater variables involved than does the pF/m variations in cables.
So sorry but I don’t buy it.
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Has it broken in yet Ian, or does it a bit longer? 
I fully agree with you there. My whole point from the beginning was that none if it seems to make much sense. The info @bruss dug up only seems to have increased confusion.
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Not sure if I like it… 
Its seen a few other Naim things come & go. A 42 & 110, a 250, a 102, and an 82… Think its got staying power… And its quite flexible too…!!
The length of 7 metres was a guess - but so far, I have yet to have a room where 2 by 7m was not long enough.
When I first bought it, I had a Linn LP12 with Rega R200 and a Dynavector 10X2, an A&R A60E and a pair of Tangent RS2’s. How times have moved on since then…!
Don’t start the thermal paste debacle!
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Pastegate returns….
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… I don’t think we need to go there again,
Run before the Pastefarians arrive!
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Nice thread Indeed, maybe a little too much talk… 
My humble contribution then… a 1988 Yamaha cdx-1110
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I always thought this Cambridge CD player was pretty well built/laid out, when I had to open. Someone had managed to put a disc in when it already had one in! Not me, and she didn’t last long……
Interesting, AV Options offers a ‘Twisted 56’ loudspeaker cable and I understand now where this originated from.
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Beautiful…
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At least all the thermal paste squeezed out the air between the gaps so I won’t debate about it.
Does it affect the sound? If not, does it matter?
I must admit I like that Naim’s layout is very neat, but it would not have made it into the decision tree when buying. I’ve never asked my dealer to open a case prior to purchasing.
One thing that I have just noticed is that all of the transformer ‘tails’ align with their respective loads and don’t take orthogonal routes around the chassis to get to where they need to.
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Everything matters when you lose control in this hobby.
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