What was the last bit of gear you bought in 2024?

I also have one on order, will be interesting to see how it compares to my AQ Niagara

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Yes, I look forward to reading about your findings.

My plan to try one has been delayed somewhat now … resisting all changes until the boxes have settled in, even taken the Powerline off the 332 so everything is completely standard … for now :slightly_smiling_face:

Great to hear the Puritan is working out so well for you, and it’s early days too, looking forward to trying it out.

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Yes, I need another rack. Too tall to fit in my Fraimlite. Or maybe I need to buy a very high Fraimlite shelf.

Unfortunately there’s the Ear 912 on top and the P10 on another top.

Very sensible to let your system settle and be fully acquainted with it first. When you do try, I would be amazed if you do not like it.

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Burn the heretic!

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Looks like you might need to change to the Quadraspire D (deep) shelves. Almost all the high end Japanese gear needs a 60cm deep shelf.

Just got this record brush. Very impressed on first use. Thanks to @Skeptikal for the tip. Am I right in that you add a bit of Luis for each use? Might make my own mix, a bit of rain water and isopropyl should do it.

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@Mike_S
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Please just use it dry I’ve used these dry for over 40 years.
Once you get the wrist action there are no more swiped dust trails.
Glad you like it. :+1:t2:

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Honestly, this looks great for people like me who lives with a lounge that is seriously plug socket starved. I have a giant multi-plug thing, but it’s just ugly and unwieldy. I’d probably pay the price just to smarten up my plugs!

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Definitely worth looking at I’d say…

I have one of them as well.
I agree, surprisingly good.

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How do you control the bass resonances of the room?
(With corner placement, that’s on all 3 axes.)

Netgear GS105E L2 managed switch & iFi iPower X PSU.
Significant improvement.

https://community.naimaudio.com/t/switches-and-psus-with-1st-gen-streamer-a-272

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Lack of little lines of dust is the most obvious difference to a carbon & velvet brush that I noticed. Picks everything up very very well

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It’s the Biz no nonsense just does the job. :+1:t2:

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I don’t, if I am honest. I do have a pair of GIK Monster Bass traps in the rear corners of the room, but I doubt they contribute much on their own. I don’t have any “booming” issues though with the PMC (+REL). I contribute that to the “speed” of the bass, which doesn’t linger in the room. My previous Dynaudios were much worse in that respect. I can adjust the REL gain a click or two down in the future, but it doesn’t sound overpowering as it is.

Contrary to popular wisdom, REL suggests that a single subwoofer should be placed close to a corner to get maximum “reinforcement” of the sub-bass from the room. In the case of a pair of subwoofers, as the total output is higher, they recommend to place them close to the speakers instead.

I followed blindly the “Sumiko” and “Rel” placement instructions and the final result seems to be more pleasing than before. I made some REW measurements afterwards, which actually show a worse objective response compared to before… :thinking:

Here are some plots for your reference. Happy to share more in a separate topic to avoid going off-topic here.

-Old speaker placement (black) vs “Sumiko” (red). Ignore the drop at high frequencies as this is likely to the microphone calibration issues (pointing towards the speakes vs pointing towards the ceiling).

-PMC without (red) and with REL (blue). Both in the “Sumiko” position

Waterfall plot for original PMC placement (no REL)


Waterfall plot for “Sumiko” PMC placement (no REL)

Waterfall plot for “Sumiko” PMC placement (with REL)

In any case, you can see this terrible dip in the region 100-200 Hz, which much be due to speaker-boundary interference. If I bring the speakers a lot more forward, the dip improves in the ~100-150 region, so that must be related to the rear/side wall. But I suspect the ~150-200Hz region is most likely affected by the ceiling/floor, so not much I could do there anyway.

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Just as another view - I use mine wet - mainly - (using the AT fluid). It’s been superb…

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…just to raise a counterpoint…Naim, along with at least one other UK company (in my experience) go to great lengths in ensuring that their power supplies, fed by the mains current, work extremely well. It seems to me (although I am not an electical engineer) that any ‘mains conditioning’ will be to the detriment to the current/dynamics of ‘the mains’. Intuitive thinking, I know!

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