Time for a change?

I had SL interconnect on my NDX2 into 282 and sold it and went back to the Lavander as it definitely sounded better.
Was amazed.

Best wishes for a speedy recovery! I just had mine out too and my hi-fi system has been a real boon during the recovery period :slight_smile:

Well, that’s the unknown, the new room has a bit of a twang because it’s so large and we need more furnishing in here but the tuner sounds better and streaming from the Sky box sounds pretty good. Therefore one can surmise that the CD555 isn’t up to speed yet.

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Good luck on the recovery too, mines been a week now and I feel surprisingly normal at the moment. I must have been suffering from mine for about five years and you don’t realise how bad it was making you feel until it’s been removed.

As for listening to the system, I haven’t done as much listening as I wanted, surprisingly, I just haven’t had the chance.

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Well this Naim burn in is hard to understand, three days of poor performance. I don’t know why but it all went back to the dark ages, a thick and heavy sound akin to my AMG going into limp mode. No life at all. However, tonight it’s back on song again.

I am starting to think it’s not the room, it has to be the power supply, I guess being a mile or so from the next group of houses is having an effect on the quality of the power supply.

Can I ask if others living in the middle of nowhere are having the same problem?

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A different problem we have no internet since monday due to 2 phases of the local power failing. Still no internet due to virgin. Power failed again today……immediate update from power networks. They had put monitoring equipment on…… its a underground cable fault.
Perhaps a call to evplain might get them to investigate?

That sounds like an interesting conversation, hello Eon, my hi-fi sounds flat, can you investigate for me :blush:

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Middle of nowhere, no flat sounds! “Afterburner” put a huge grin on my face earlier, my array of air instruments given a thorough workout. Non-DR here.

Meaning that I’m sure it will all come good - you seem to have covered all the bases for getting the most from your very fine system - after such patience and planning you certainly deserve it.

Do the transformers buzz more than you were used to previously PB?
In my last property we were on the end of a long line from the nearest transformer with car workshops and farms on the same line ahead of us. It turned out the guage of cable used was also sub-standard. I got multimeter measurements of below 200volts at times and generally struggled to stay ‘legal’ within 10% of statutory voltage.
The transformers buzzed badly, but I have to say that the sound quality never degenerated the way you describe.
Good luck,
Kevin

I had my gallbladder removed last year, and it took me about 4 weeks to be fit enough to return to work. My recovery was probably slowed by having had a fairly nasty bout of covid the month before my op, the pre-op diet, and subsequent dehydration post op.

Since the operation, it has become apparent to me how subtly debilitating a gall bladder full of stones was, quite possibly going back to 2005. Hope your recovery continues apace: you should feel markedly better once you have fully recovered. Best, Al

Without any prompting people who’ve seen me since my op say how much better I look! :slight_smile:

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The transformers don’t buzz at all Kevin, it’s a lot quieter than our old house which had a dedicated supply with 6 spurs. We were in the middle of a large estate and the power supply was questionable as the original supply was ancient and the estate was bolted on the side. Power cuts happened occasionally and I could come home from work to find the power had been off.

Funnily enough we are now down a little lane, there is a block of three houses next to an auto centre. The power supply comes from Melton three miles away and is on the old pylon system. The power comes into the house 20 metres away and I run a single spur round the outside of the house into a double unswitched socket. All nettle done but I do think it’s stifling the sound a little. I do run an old Audioworks power block which could also be hampering the sound and will be a cause for more experiments in the future with more suitable blocks.

Blimey, I gave myself three days of work, I was back on the Wednesday after the operation. I must have been lucky :blush:. I have been feeling remarkably normal since the operation. I must have been suffering the effect of the bad gallbladder for around 5 years and I was shocked as to how bad it was making me feel. I no longer feel I am being slowly poisoned from inside and I feel so much better now.

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I thought I would recover more quickly than I did. I could only walk 3-4 hundred yards and I was out of breath and knackered. I was off work for 3 weeks or so with Covid then went on a pre-op low calorie/low fat diet 2 weeks after that, so I suspect I was more banjoed than I realised before my op.

Glad its worked out well for you. As I said, the effects of a gall bladder full of stones were insidious to excruciating (when I had pancreatitis in April). All the better for having it out.

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Glad to hear you are feeling better :blush:.

Honestly don’t even start to judge your system until you have put a good 300+ hours of solid burn in. Then maybe start tinkering with setup as others have suggested.

I couldn’t believe how bad my 552DR sounded after the DR upgrade. That’s why I bought the Tellerulium Q burn in disk. I honestly thought it was faulty. I left it running 24/7 for 2 weeks.

I read that Naim use a lot of tantalums ? in their amps and that was the reason for their long burn in times. I have no idea if that’s true.

Otherwise the tinkering and worry may be for nothing. You have literally changed your whole system and room.

It’s going to take time .

It is amazing, the thing is that with so many black boxes it becomes difficult to identify , also sometimes the decay is gradual and almost infinitesimal

Whilst I had a five box system (for amplification) I am very happy with the simplicity of my one box solution (Nova)

I would love Naim to produce a one box - Super, Super Nait that sits above the SN3 in the Naim hierarchy

I had peritonitis resulting from diverticular disease , rather like my post on parts of your audio system gently declining you don’t notice certain things , disease , physical conditions until the body goes “bad” on you.

Glad you are recovering

Thank you.

I know it’s going to take time, I am surprised at how long it’s taking and how inconsistent it is at the moment. Installing my very first all Naim system was night and day better than what I had before. With the new DR’s system it can sound glorious on one track and the next one is very disappointing if that makes sense?

For the moment, I am doing nothing more than trying to put more hours on it :blush:

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The only other thought I had would be about how the speaker cables,


routing through the wall, could be having some kind of unwanted effect?
Do they run in parallel before splitting left and right?
If you have a spare set of speaker cables that you could run ‘conventionally’ direct across the floor from amp to speaker and see if that makes a difference?