YNWOAN
100% Analogue
I meant to post this absolutely ages ago but somehow never did. The recent enquiry about the Naim Snaps made me think about it again.
Many years ago I acquired a Snaps and used it to run my Sony D6C Walkman Pro (THE flat earth combo at the time). When the Olive range came out I was lucky enough to be given an update fascia and on/off knob to make it match my other equipment (no actual olive fronted Snap were ever built by Naim).e
It looked like this:
So, eventually, after years of it sitting on the shelf I removed my phono cards from my pre-amp (thanks to Avondale). However, this remote operation of the 323 cards meant that they required their own dual rail supply -I remembered my Snaps. A quick visit to Les at Avondale towers and it was converted to dual rail operation and he fitted the required Din plug. Now it looked like this:
Well, I was quite happy with that improvement and lived with it for a short while. One day I was chatting to Les and he mentioned upgrading my Snaps and so I picked up these bits from him:
One replacement reservoir capacitor (kendeil) and two replacement regulator boards (all fully built and very nice too - all SS fixings were also supplied.
So, I had to take the old boards out:
Drill a few small holes to mount the new boards (very easy to do as the tray is aluminium):
Then just fix the new boards in (bolted with supplied screws, nuts, washers, and L brackets).
All the wires were long enough already so I just soldered them to the boards:
This simple mod gave a surprisingly big improvement - much bigger than the very small cost would suggest. I've since compared it to a number of other supplies and not found it wanting in any way - very highly recommended.
Many years ago I acquired a Snaps and used it to run my Sony D6C Walkman Pro (THE flat earth combo at the time). When the Olive range came out I was lucky enough to be given an update fascia and on/off knob to make it match my other equipment (no actual olive fronted Snap were ever built by Naim).e
It looked like this:
So, eventually, after years of it sitting on the shelf I removed my phono cards from my pre-amp (thanks to Avondale). However, this remote operation of the 323 cards meant that they required their own dual rail supply -I remembered my Snaps. A quick visit to Les at Avondale towers and it was converted to dual rail operation and he fitted the required Din plug. Now it looked like this:
Well, I was quite happy with that improvement and lived with it for a short while. One day I was chatting to Les and he mentioned upgrading my Snaps and so I picked up these bits from him:
One replacement reservoir capacitor (kendeil) and two replacement regulator boards (all fully built and very nice too - all SS fixings were also supplied.
So, I had to take the old boards out:
Drill a few small holes to mount the new boards (very easy to do as the tray is aluminium):
Then just fix the new boards in (bolted with supplied screws, nuts, washers, and L brackets).
All the wires were long enough already so I just soldered them to the boards:
This simple mod gave a surprisingly big improvement - much bigger than the very small cost would suggest. I've since compared it to a number of other supplies and not found it wanting in any way - very highly recommended.