System Pics 2021

Save your money, enjoy the ignorance.

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You’re so right, if wireless is working and you’re experiencing no issues then there’s no reason to look at switches etc.

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Managed to locate a used Fraim level for the ND5XS2 (top right) that was previously plonked on top of the 300PS, now complete :grin:

Left stack
252
DAVE
300HU
Mscaler

Right stack
ND5XS2
300PS
SCDR

Happy days.

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How does the ND5 XS2 sound through the M Scaler/Dave? Is it a better combination (in your view) that the equivalently priced NDX2?

What does a switch do? My NDX uses an ethernet cable connected to my router. What else is needed?

I’d start here (quite a few similar threads in the streaming section on switches, cables etc)

Plenty of reading material over there to save diverting the system pics thread :slightly_smiling_face:

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Nice to see the odd picture :+1:

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Xmas pic time. No system changes for some time now.

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Keen to hear about this too

Nice Phil!
We have a Norwegian wood burner Jotul.
Definitely adds to the enjoyment…
Cheers
Mark

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It’s unfortunate how many people get scared off by this insane switch and cable craze. Anyone obviously can play around with it if they want but it’s like VTA obsession on a TT. It still sounds good with wifi or a regular basic quality switch, just like you can play vinyl without changing the VTA for every record.

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Its been a while since i posted on the Naim forum. In our holiday home, currently enjoying music streamed from an Auralic Altair G1 into my recently serviced NAC42N, NAP110 and Wharfedale Diamond 220s. I love the room I have here, acoustically it beats hands down the room where we have the main system. CD player is a marantz CD 67SE which I will use as a transport and digital out to the Auralic.

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Hard to describe in words but as a transport the ND5XS2 delivers the goods.

ND5XS2/MS/DAVE is excellent especially on 44/16 CD rips, captivating! I’m sat here listening to Peter Gabriel the depth of the sound is incredible, sounds daft but if I closed my eyes and throw a stone between the speakers I could imagine the stone bouncing away into the distance…

I’ve not tried the NDX2 as a transport but as they both use the N800 board (not bothered about the screen) I guess the results would be similar feeding the Chord kit.

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nothing. Don’t believe the hype.

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It’s the first day of Advent and time for the re-emergence of Happy Eternity Baby.

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Nice. Like that one. Very creative.
Happy 1st December… :+1:

Could wrap tinsel around the leads?

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Steady on…

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Thank you, I’d better start saving - once my ND5 XS2 finally arrives!

Tinsel will attract EMF types waves and be detrimental to SQ.
I have heard Chord Cables have developed a suitable tinsel that will not attract such interference.