Yes quite possibly! Then Iād have to plug my phono stage into a āCDā input!
Itās a 2023 product; no one uses cd players anymore. I havenāt played one in years.
I should come out of the closet and confess Iām not a full cult member as I am using both Chord Company interconnects and, brace yourselves, Chord Epic X speaker cable. (I did check this thread and I saw assurance that it wouldnāt cause the NAIT50 to explode. )
I donāt have any NACA5 to hand to compare but I did have some āoldā Witch Hat Phantom lying around which I thought might be a better match. Much to my surprise, the Witch Hat sounded quite nasty in comparison to the allegedly ābright Silverā Epic. Epic far smoother and ānicerā to listen to in my opinion.
Sounding excellent on good old (new though!) LK20, soldered onto the supplied plugs.
isnt saying that no one uses cd players anymore sort of like saying that no one uses turntables any more? some of us still use BOTH
Some of us still regularly use FM radio and tapeā¦
Hence āAuxā is ideal (except no line out for tape of course!)
Just bought a Naim CD5si
Like this
It sounds very good, the amp is powered with a Powerline and the CD player with a Chord Shawline Power Cord. It is my intention to connect them with a Chord Shawline X or a Chord Epic interconnect
Took me ages to get my head round using the TUN input on my Supernait 3 for my Urika line in.
Now TUN means Tunes.
Sorry if this is a daft question but are āpass throughā boards able to be used on the phono (if boards are used!) as my 52?
Iād really like to see how this sounds with my Urikaād LP12 (with MCoil) into the SBLs. Otherwise can you get phono to 5 pin adaptors? Iād obviously prefer the former.
Thanks
No interchangeable daughter boards used here. Just connect to the AUX input via an RCA- DIN interconnect.
Thereās an adaptor made by Mayware. I did a back to back comparison with my LP12 and NAC552, first into the RCA inputs and then through the Mayware into a DIN input. It was clear that the latter sounded better (@Skeptikal Jim will disagree!), so I chose an RCA to DIN Sarum T interconnect between the Urika and preamp.
This is a picture of the Mayware adaptor:
I havenāt used a Volkswagen in years. Thereforeā¦
This was my solution. Just bought a kontak/mayware adapter to go between the Urika and Nait50. Speakers will also be SBLs after moving to new house in september.
Well itās here and unboxed. Put straight into the office system and it sounds very nice from the off - and Iām sure thereās lots more to comeā¦.
Lucky man they look fantastic. Weāre unlikely to see one thanks to the lack of distributor.
I like your use of Epic, I was planning to go Shawline X
As an amp it deserves really good interconnects
Plenty more to come Simon, mine has been running for a week now and itās improved massively
Nice combo.
I do like Chord cables and have a number myself.
However, if you can avoid stacking the two Naim components, that would also help the SQ.
DGā¦