Will do! Thank you.
Nice one, well done. Time to enjoy the music.
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Happy to help if I can. My ND555 was wired, and the Naim App of course was wifi. Google Nest absolutely works just fine; you just need to have your entire home network â wired as well as wifi â on it. Again, happy to help!
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Yes - you did indeed fix what was wrong. The Google Nest âbaseâ MUST be your in-home router/dhcp server, for wired as well as wifi.
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Thanks, Bart!
I, personally, think the Nest is great in every way. The house we just built is three stories; we have a Nest satellite on each floor and the coverage is always âexcellentâ according to the Home app when running a test.
Admittedly, my problems were self-inflicted, as I simply hadnât ruled out the then-current Ethernet cabling situation. It wasnât until it went into the âbase/routerâ to Cisco 2960 and Cat5e wall from top floor music room to an open port on the Cisco did things get sorted. It seems so trivial now, but at the time it simply eluded me.
It eluded me for a short time, but became apparent when I saw that my wifi devices were on a subnet that I did not recognize (192.168.86.xxx). I did some more searching and learned that the Google Nest system actually assigns internal ip addresses to each of the satellite nodes; thus it HAS to be working as a dhcp server.
Interestingly, my home Verizon FiOS tv settop boxes must also get internal ip addresses, but from the Verizon router. Fortunately the settop boxes dont use wifi for anything, so they are OK existing on their own network.
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Okay, so while Iâm on here, Iâd like to post some initial impressions on the ND5 XS2 wired with a standard length AQ Cinnamon Ethernet cable from the streamer to the wall plateâŚ
First offâand this is not subtle at all, nor is it my imaginationâI will just say that it is louder in my system/room. I cannot stress this observation enough. Is this really possible; has anyone had a similar experience? This is something that was NOT apparent when the NDX was wired. As it stands, the typical SN2 volume dial on wifi is at 9:00 or sometimes even 9:30 when I like to listen moderately loud. With the streamer wired now, regardless of track, it was quite obviously louder but not in a harsh manner in the least, just louder. I now have it at around 8:00-8:30 and it sounds quite similar as originally stated above. This could be considered subjective without doing an in-room SPL test, which I do intend to do; but wow, this is not a subtle thing.
Another observation is that the soundstage, especially from left to right, sounds more expansive and open. Iâd say height is about the same, but depth is where it really seems to stand out to me as well. This becomes really apparent on small jazz ensembles and techno/ambient genres.
Onto bass: It, too, seems like I went into my SVS subwoofer app and increased the dB levels on each one. It still maintains depth, impact, snap and tautness, but is louder, matching the rest of the spectrumâs perceived loudness.
Lastly, and perhaps most impressively, it really has shifted the layering in my sweet spot in terms of my systemâs presentation. Since I got this system and room up-and-running, most music has had a consistent mid-row presentation from top-to-bottom. Now it has shifted to a few rows down. Also, the midrange is most certainly more forward, but not in a distracting way at all. My Harbeths have always excelled in this area; now it just seems accentuated even more so and really sounds astonishing. It just comes at you, like itâs illuminated, and brings you in. I feel strangely more engaged. Like I say, it isnât distracting at all, just like the bass hasnât been overblown, either. These two areas have just shifted in terms of holography, whereas before I wouldâve said no band really stands out (balanced?). Here, though, it sounds almost contradictory how theyâve shifted slightly one way from the other (even though mids and bass simultaneously increased in loudness and departed from a much more âflat earthâ perspective); however, the presentation makes more sonic sense within the picture.
Caveat: Who knows if thereâs a correlation between what Iâve described here since being wired or if the streamer is just âsettling inâ from new since its installation? Regardless, when A/B-ing on an album or two, these traits seemingly stand. It really isnât all that subtle. As typical, it isnât night and day, either. It sounds somewhere approaching halfway between those hi-fi scenarios. I really like what I hear, though. I wasnât certain what to expect, since I never gave the matter much thought, coupled with so much opinion concerning SQ wired vs wireless.
Again, thanks everyone! I think as of today Iâm really down to just relaxing now and listening without worry.
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