The new NAIT 50 Limited Edition

Yes quite possibly! :slight_smile: Then Iā€™d have to plug my phono stage into a ā€˜CDā€™ input!

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Itā€™s a 2023 product; no one uses cd players anymore. I havenā€™t played one in years.

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I should come out of the closet and confess Iā€™m 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 wouldnā€™t cause the NAIT50 to explode. )

I donā€™t have any NACA5 to hand to compare but I did have some ā€˜oldā€™ 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 ā€˜bright Silverā€™ Epic. Epic far smoother and ā€˜nicerā€™ to listen to in my opinion.

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Sounding excellent on good old (new though!) LK20, soldered onto the supplied plugs.

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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

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Some of us still regularly use FM radio and tapeā€¦

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Hence ā€˜Auxā€™ is ideal :slight_smile: (except no line out for tape of course!)

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Just bought a Naim CD5si

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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

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Took me ages to get my head round using the TUN input on my Supernait 3 for my Urika line in.
:cold_sweat:
Now TUN means Tunes. :+1:t2: :joy:

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Sorry if this is a daft question but are ā€˜pass throughā€™ boards able to be used on the phono (if boards are used!) as my 52?

Iā€™d really like to see how this sounds with my Urikaā€™d LP12 (with MCoil) into the SBLs. Otherwise can you get phono to 5 pin adaptors? Iā€™d obviously prefer the former.

Thanks

No interchangeable daughter boards used here. Just connect to the AUX input via an RCA- DIN interconnect.

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Thereā€™s 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:

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I havenā€™t used a Volkswagen in years. Thereforeā€¦

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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.

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Well itā€™s here and unboxed. Put straight into the office system and it sounds very nice from the off - and Iā€™m sure thereā€™s lots more to comeā€¦.



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Lucky man they look fantastic. Weā€™re 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 itā€™s improved massively :+1:

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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€¦