What was the last bit of gear you bought?


Looks, sounds, and IS so much better than my IKEA hack used for three years until now! Found it lurking in my local proper Hi-Fi dealer (Naim dealer).

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I have brought the IFi Zen Stream and for it the new power elite from IFi.

Beautiful power supply.


And finely received my niagara 1200.


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NATO5, great tuner !

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I’m pretty impressed with the iFi Power elite. Give it a few hours however. We have different use cases but still it’s a first-rate non-LPS

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For the switches I still prefer the sbooster, but for the zen streamer and the IFi pro idsd the ipower elites are very good.

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I bought a Network Audio Server.






Manage to copy my Flac files into the harddisk…and it’s working. :sweat_smile:

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To this day I think the FraimLite looks sooo much better than Fraim.

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I think you have a good point youngster, and easier to keep clean too!

I love that I can be in my mid 40s and someone still calls me young.

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Haha, yes I took a punt on that, but I am 20 years your senior (age only of course!)

You might want to remove the first picture that appears to show your address

What DAC have you got the Stream connected to?

Oops forgot about that. Thanks to Richard for his quick action.

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NAP500DR.

Will post more after it arrives and it has settled in.

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Well, that was a sudden announcement, without much build up, @NigelB!

If your experience is to be anything like mine, where the NAP500 DR was the last suspect to arrive, it was quite transformational.

Everyone mentions the qualities of the 552, but when you introduce the 500, the whole system just says “thank you”.

Just leaves a second 555 DR, to chuck at your ND 555, for the full royal flush! :joy: :flushed:

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Congratulations @NigelB. Possibly the last piece to your electronics puzzle
The 500 will provide alot more energy into your speakers especially coming from a 250 and you may find that you will want to adjust speaker placement again to optimize.

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Bad man!

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Who, … … me? :man_shrugging: :joy:

Thanks Dave.

Actually I have a few next steps and would appreciate your thoughts, and the thoughts of others, on priorities as you have already trodden much of this path. Those options/steps are:

  • DR and service my 552, it is a 2008 model with no prior services

  • upgrade speakers (currently Monitor Audio Gold GX300), possibly Kudos Titans

  • split my single stack Fraim into Brawn and Brains stacks

  • Yes, get a second PS555DR for my ND555

  • Get a PhoenixNET switch

BTW, I already have, and will continue to have, a full SL loom

If this turns into a significant diversion, I will start a new thread.

That is a nice development path. I did say that a 500 would be the last thing I go for, probably after our next move in a year or two, but you make me wonder. :slight_smile:

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