The old styling looked like nothing before or after really. Quite visionary. Or maybe I am nostalgic.
For me, growing up through my 'hifi youth' in the late 70's/early 80's (ie mid-late teens) CB Naim was just large a part of that and looks fresh now - as so many utterly simple designs still do.
OMG Gromit's, that's pure HiFi porn! What a beautiful pic of the classic CB Nait 2. (one of my alltime favorite pieces of HiFi)
I recently swapped my old Target stands for a (demo) pair of partington Dreadnought stands.
Also, after a 3 days home audition I bought myself a (demo) Cambridge Audio Stream Magic 6.
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Hi Samuel,Alco,
how are you getting on with the CA Stream Magic 6, both from a sound quality and user interface POV? What did you use before ?
Well Gromit, I only tried it once with my CB Nait 2 and for a short moment I prefered it (referring to it as 'Classic Black' instead of 'Chrome Bumper')Alco - whilst the Naimistas would consider it heresy, I think the reversed-CB-sleeve looks great. I may even try it on my little boxes soon.
Hi Samuel,
Well,...to be honest,...I just arrived back home 30 minutes ago, after returning the SM6 back to my dealer.
I had the chance to audition it at home, starting on monday evening, 4 days ago.
During the first 2 days I was delighted with it, and thought I'd finally found a worthy replacement for my trusty 'old' Squeezebox Touch.
I've been reading quite a lot of bad reviews about the SM6 app, and during my first 2 days I didn't understand why.
But then...Yesterday evening it happend...
All of a sudden the app showed several issues...
like, when a track was playing, and I wanted to get back to 'Artist', the screen went blue, with the message loading for minutes!!
After that, many more app issues suddenly showed up.
Today,...the same issues again, with the continues 'loading' issue being the most annoying one.
So, after 3 bad app experiences in hardly 4 days I decided I stick to my trusty Squeezebox Touch (with BoTW PSU upgrade) and the very stable Ipeng controll app.
(The Ipeng still is THE control-app to beat imho)
Too bad, as the SM6 looks much better than the el-cheapo SBT, and when the app works I have to confess it's rather good and very intuitive!
(I even prefered the SM6 app to Naim's n-stream!)
what is the my little pony crap? My daughter had those in the 80's and I fail to see the relationship twixt a horse and hifi.