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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Nice. Like that one. Very creative.
Happy 1st December… 
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.
Does the tinsel need to burn in?
Vinyl Angels singing?
That’s a nice festive picture @marksnaim but I think you could improve the intensity of the tree lights with a cable upgrade plus by adding a switching unit you could illuminate other parts of the room.
Most importantly you could add an isolation platform under the tree to stop your baubles bobbling.
Just saying.
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Please tell me you’re not thinking of upgrading the streamer before it actually arrives 
Even our seasoned relentless upgraders wait a couple of months before deciding it doesn’t sound good enough.
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That was Sunday 28 November…
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Yes, and maybe a dedicated PS. But which PS? And Snaic or Burndy. Decisions, decisions.
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Not entirely… I had a convulsive near-total HiFi/AV upgrade this year and the perceived wisdom (from some) is that I’ve done it backwards and bought myself a mullet. However, I have a plan - with 3 years to retirement I want to end up with a 282 + either SCDR/2xHCDR with either a naked ND5 XS2 into my Qutest, or via an M Scaler (plus a TBD upgrade from my Stageline - Aria, possibly). Hence my interest in your experience.
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Blimey that brings back memories I bought one of those a lovely radio.
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