Cables!
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Donāt mean to be pedantic, but the last time I looked the UK was a significant part of north west Europe.. I think it should mean for those countries that use Europlugs (plugs mostly based on type C, F and CEE 7/7) the potential SQ advantage is you donāt have a fuse in the plug. The European countries that use fused plugs (Type G) are Ireland, United Kingdom, Cyprus and Malta which offer greater electrical safety of the flex.
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That was Roy George Naim UK saying it 
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Yes the Vertere Redline would be my first choice in cables but they are not cheap. I had a pair of their ācheapestā interconnects, orange coloured ultra thin but sounded excellent and only changed for the Chord Signature which I got a great deal on. If money was not an issue ā¦
Put a flag on the Bay, watch the fish site. They do come up used.
Yep and sadly it just keeps going deeper and deeper 
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Without cables the mighty Nait 50 is just a doorstop, keep that in mind fellows!
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Yeah.. I seem to remember seeing itā¦ thought Iād correct it or at least contextualise it for this thread ā¦
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Well yes but it sounds great with standard and included cables, just make sure you donāt trip over them if using the N50 as a doorstop as well.
For me the best interconnect from my interconnect box for the N50 is made by DNM. Quite difficult to go back to coaxial based interconnects on the N50 after thatā¦ you realize how many of them start to subtly mangle the bandwidth response in low to high impedance transitions.
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Like Iāve said before for Naim to have produced another shoebox integrated amplifier that surpasses the NAIT 1 and the NAIT 2 is no mean feat. The NAIT 50 is by far the best shoebox Naim integrated amplifier to date and Iāll go as far as saying that two years on I still believe the NAIT 50 is probably amongst the ten most musically performing amplifiers in production today 
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Thatās interesting, for me the N50 is one of the most musically enjoyable amps I have heard to dateā¦ and I suspect you hear a far wider gamut than I being in the trade, and it appears you might feel the same.
Itās hard to put a finger on what it is.. itās like a bubbly moist, vibrant, yet controlled feel to recordings that helps make them pop into the room and come alive.
Even very old mono narrow bandwidth recordings seem to drag you inā¦ and at the other end heavily processed and dynamically multiband compressed contemporary recordings sound equally enjoyable for what they are with their exaggerated rhythmic drives and mixed layers all augmenting with each other..
I am sure speakers, room matching, interconnects/cables, support and sources, and I do use the incredible DAVE, have got be equally up there.. but the N50 does seem to bring them together with an infectious synergy ā¦.
I have just emerged from āwasting ā two hours this morning being absorbed listening to new and old recordingsā¦ and saw your post.
And yes words carefully chosen, I am sure that the N50 is not best technical amp I have heard or even owned, itās not perfect, but it is one of the most enjoyable with musical recordings.
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No, N50 is in a league of its own, itās that simple, I would not put it besides any Naim integrated amplifier, Iāve had a few of those, 5SI and SN2, these 2 are already considered legendary, but they do not even come close to the N50 level of performance, any hifi aspect, you name it, clarity, refinement, punch, timing, vividness, control, pace (WHAT A PACE!), there is a whole galaxy in between N50 and the rest. Thatās a point blank fact. Sorry, but itās a fact.
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First time iāve encountered the use of āmoistā when describing an amp Simonš
Some here would marry it if it were possible.
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You mean they havenāt already?
Roger
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I have two. They donāt know about each other yetā¦.
Regards
Big a Mist
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āMoistā
One minute in.
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Had Naim also offered up a shoe box streamer/dac then they may just have made the amp an easier sell, but what do I know. Hard to take the Naim blinkers offā¦
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I think āmusicalā is very interesting word in HIFI. What is it and what creates it. What in the music presentation is it that makes us think something is musical and something is not
Musical is something that invites you to listen more and more and more. It doesnāt mean it has to sound perfect or super great but it is something else that connects with you.
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āPolyamporyā
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