Supernait 3 upgrade options

I’ve upgraded my SN3 with a HiCap DR and it is certainly a nice and logical performance lift in all areas of it’s presentation. As for a SuperCap, i’d put that sort of money towards a Fraim instead, which i reckon will give you a better all round lift than a SuperCap will over a HiCap DR, without the Fraim…

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People here are trying to be polite, but a Supercap on a SN3 is just silly. If your dealer really thinks that is the best use of your money then you need a new dealer.
There are far better ways to spend Supercap money, they will improve your system now, not in some mythical future when you have 500 series equipment.

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billywindsock - I whole hearted agree. I’ve got a long journey ahead of me before considering a supercap.

All you need for now, or later, is a good streamer/ transport to go with your Ndac.
Auralic Aries G1, Lumin T1 …Innuos Zen…come to mind

If you have a 500 series system you won’t be able to use a SC - unless you’re using a Superline or Snaxo :wink:

Or sell the nDac and get an NDX2. Link through system automation and have an easy life.

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Sorry, I don’t know enough about which supply goes with which units as I’ve jumped off the Naim train. I do know that adding a power supply that costs more than the amp it is supplying is a bad idea.

I think this clarifies things…

She has just bought it. For now she uses an Oppo transport.

I know, but that’s no reason not to make the suggestion.

Well, sure, if you want to downgrade. But why would you?

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But would it be a downgrade? That depends partly on the chosen streamer and anyway, it’s often a balance between ease of use and absolute sound quality.

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I remember when Naim used to say that one of their secrets to their fabulous sounding CD players was to keep the DAC as close to the transport as possible. Hence the signal coming out of the tray in their later players was already in analogue.

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Jitter

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Jitter will always be present l, no doubt. I did some reading on the Oppo. They ran testing on all of the outputs and here’s their summation:

Part IV: Jitter

Here are the Dunn J-Test plots using the XLR output to achieve the lowest noise floor. Notice the small difference in J-Test results between asynchronous USB, HDMI, S/PDIF coaxial, and S/PDIF TosLink:

Looking at the graphs above, it’s quite clear that the results from the BDP-105 are just excellent no matter which digital interface is used. However, I think it’s quite clear that the HDMI 1.3 graphs are worse with slight skirting at the base of the primary frequency in the 24-bit test, plus slightly more sideband amplitude on the 16-bit plot.

I seriously doubt jitter would be audible given these excellent results in any event!

Oh, certainly. I tried an NDX2 vs nDAC and thought the nDAC noticeably ‘better’ even without a PS, the addition of which simply magnified the differences.

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I guess that discontinuing the nDAC and bringing out three new streamers was a backwards step for Naim, even with the additional PSUs. Mmm…

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There’s a bargain nDAC for sale here. Maybe I should sell my NDX2 and cash up and upgrade to an outdated DAC since Naim clearly didn’t know what they were doing…

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Wow, do you guys feel like someone is trying to gore your ox?

Or perhaps you didn’t read or see the “I . . . thought” piece?

Enjoy your echo chamber . . .

Not really. It’s just that i feel that the NDX 2 unexplainably gets rather a hard time on here by those that don’t own one. Weird…

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