Thanks for your good wishes, James, much appreciated.
I have been speaking to James Allney at TomTom Audio abut finding a CB NAT tuner to form part of the system. He recommends a CB NAT-01, as CB NAT-02s are in hen’s teeth territory.
James has already supplied a pair of Falcon Gold Badge LS3/5As (and stands), so we’re getting there. If only I could persuade Naim to build a CB NAT single box shoe- box sized tuner. As that won’t happen, James is looking for a mint CB NAT-01 and PS for me.
Don’t forget the NAT101/SNAPS. It’s not that far off the early CB NAT01 (and no display issues, apart from the bulb) performance-wise, costs less, should be more available, and looks just fabulous with a NAIT, so should look just as good with a NAIT 50.
Thank you, Richard. TomTom have a CB NAT-01, which they recommend. I will probably go with that, although I was hoping for a NAT-02, to keep the box count down.
Thanks, Bevo, I have an Olive NAT-01/NAPST, currently in Salisbury for service/repair. It’s fantastic - some think that it’s the best product that Naim ever made, in terms of audio quality.
I have been lucky enough to reserve a Nait 50R, and I was looking for a one-box CB tuner to pair it with. James at TomTom tells me that CB NAT-02 tuners are very, very rare beasts.
Interesting, had never thought of using the Uniti Atom HE and a NAIT2, but have read about people using it with a NAP of some sort. Does the signal still have to go through both the HE and NAIT preamps?
Yes, I’ve used the Atom HE with both the SN3 and the Nait 2. I prefer to leave the amp at a fixed position, usually 9-10am and control the volume only from the Atom App/volume control. With 2 analogue preamp controls you don’t loose resolution either way if controlling from the integrated is preferred.
A lot of dealers have stacks of unrepairable Naim kit that has suffered ill fortune (well my dealer had) and keep for spares if the cases and fascias are okay.
It would be very tempting to pick up a wrecked HiCap, and fit a streamer and DAC inside. R-Pi streamer and Chord Hugo.