When the new classic 500 series will appear, the Statements will be probably converted to fridges.
Wine coolers going down to minus 20 C.
Everything but the new stuff is now broken, reduced to dust in the oblivion of useless old gear
You are a poet, Mikeš
Good idea . Specially today, 34 C here.
To be fair our dealer has advised couple of weeks back selling a kidney for the new 350s!
But it involves a speaker upgrade, total cost currently prohibitive (Serafino G2).
Keep it, keep it )
Yeah Iām feeling really depressed
All my naim gear is sounding really crap now vs the new gear evidently
What shall I do Mike
Down under fire saleā¦ā¦ā¦buy more old gear.
Grab a beer, a girl, or a sale bargain. Or, all three
I have never understood what difference regulated or inregulated makes, Richard. Is there a noticeable difference in sound quality?
Regulated power amps are something of a Naim speciality. This thread might help;
Note my post trying to explain the difference;
As Iām no electronics engineer and prefer things explained to me in laymanās terms, this is how it was once explained to me; A regulated amp is in essence effectively two amplifiers in one - one that regulates the other. It means that the amp is held to operate within very tightly controlled parameters and performance wonāt be allowed to āsagā or āslideā like an unregulated amp when great demands are made of it. Theyāre not easy to do and quite tricky to get just right, which is why you donāt see them very often except from Naim and maybe one or two others in the past, like Exposure of old.
Ha indeed
Thanks, Richard, that helps. But I donāt think that Iāll be knocking on a door at Salisbury any time soon, looking for a job!
Sure
Actually Quad had a different but maybe in some ways similar approach with current dumping. This was first seen in the 405 and was deployed in Quadās top power amplifiers ever since. The approach there was to have a powerful but not particularly accurate amplifier to ādumpā the power needed and then a small highly accurate class A amplifier in a feedback loop to get the output to be an exact, very low distortion, copy of the input, but larger. Peter Walkerās original article from Wireless World in the early 70s explained it all better than I can.
I use the most recent variant, the Quad Artera Stereo, which in my opinion is a strong competitor to the 250 DR (I have both here) and it costs only about Ā£1500 new. In fact I choose to do most of my listening here with a Nova and the Quad power amp driving my SL2s and keep the 272/250DR mostly for TV watching.
My experience working with / building current dumpers is that they have a characteristic type of transient distortion that some people donāt hear, and which some other people find near intolerable!
Looks like the 300 series has started to land at dealers in UKā¦excited to have a listen
Yep. Iāve put my exceedingly vintage Meridian 200 transport as front end to my nDAC/XPS, and guess whatā¦.it sounds just like an nDAC should.
Nice
Another new seriesš