It’s mighty big……
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I recommend “thetruesize” web page where you can overlay contries for correct scale. This is Australia on top of the US 
And UK on top of Australia.
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Hi.
I’n new to Naim (Must QB 2nd Gen) and iRadio and I wish I had never bothered with either. I had better radio experience with a £20 Dab. I 'm never sure when I turn on the speaker whether it’s going to play or not and it was a nightmare over Xmas. My question is , is it always like this?
This might give you the answer;
There is no doubt that a £20 dab would have always sounded bad, whereas a Qb2 almost always sounds great.
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It might be best to start a thread and give some more information about your situation if it’s more than radio that is your issue. Then people can help you as No, it’s not always like this and apart from the radio issues over Christmas in the main they work seamlessly.
.sjb
I think a good setup for naim will be to have the option to choose between 3 iradio aggregators: if one will fail, the others will be still available. It’s a simple idea to not have a single point of failure.
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I assume vTuner isn’t free for manufacturers to use and Naim has paid some kind of relatively small licensing fee to use it in their products.
To support multiple aggregators would presumably require more licensing fees from Naim assuming they can all be incorporated in the firmware. I could almost envisage a situation where you’d need to subscribe to an aggregator service as with Qobuz/Tidal subscriptions but pricing would have to be very cheap for the end user. The audio equipment provides a vehicle for the services to make some money provided they offer a decent service the customer is willing to pay for. As it’s ‘radio’ however rather than on demand streaming of what you actually want to hear, I doubt anything involving subscriptions would go down well with the customer base.
Vtuner themselves claimed around 40cent per product few years back.
“Peter Johnson, vTuner’s CEO, posted quite a rant [on the Bose website revealing that the company charged “.40 cents” per product to vTuner, that Tunein has “a pathetic database”, and ends by claiming “What these consumer electronic companies want is free no matter how bad the quality of the service is”, adding that it “now looks like I will need to close vTuner soon.””
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Vtuner aren’t doing too bad.
Total Employees <25 & Revenue $5.2M
To be fair if they haven’t priced their product correctly it’s their issue.
Anyone know what exactly “vTuner Premium 5*” is ?
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vTuner simply has no future at all, and the manufacturers of streamers and receivers etc. will have to realize that at some point.
I foresee a gold plated future for Naim Radio.
and when one goes down you have to explain how to solve it. May almost take as much time and resources than explaning how to stream to your streamers using third party apps. Hopefully someone hopefully more than one person at vtuner has some work to do over the next long time to reestablish the credibility of the service.
It will get to work. Naim supports their products quite a long time.
For those that use https://naim.vtuner.com/, is it working ? I get: « safari can’t open the page because it couldn’t establish a secure connection to the server »
http://naim.vtuner.com works, https doesn’t.
That in itself is concerning as the data isn’t encrypted.
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It works but latest added stations are missing meaning I guess that something has happened and earlier back up of database has been restored.
Edit. Or this is due to forwarding to the old address myradio.naimaudio.com
Even more worryingly, naim.vtuner.com forwards to myradio.naimaudio.com which also isn’t secure. Shocking in this day and age that both aren’t secure, but should be fairly trivial to address.
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All OK on my ND555 working on my Muso apart from Hidef Radio see screen shot of the blank icon, when you press on it it just keeps searching ?
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Looks kike the SSL certificate has expired or never had one.
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