Yes, even softer than post-coitus NACA4.Linn K20
Yes, even softer than post-coitus NACA4.
Witch hat phantom… job done
One might say that the price had been cryogenically frozen, rather than the cable itself having been.Plus lots of copper for a frozen in time price of £5 pm.
Most unlike Linn
Okay, just to make sure : if I pay $10k for some speaker cables, do I still need an amplifier or they will play music by themselves ?Just gave K20 a quick Google and a helpful website suggested that I might also be interested in a 9M pair of Naim SuperLumina speaker cables for the reasonable sum of $10,990.
Inductance is 0.74x that of A5 so you'd be needing 4.73m minimum to match that of 3.5m A5. Probably best to round off to 5m at £3,395 for a factory terminated pair.Just gave K20 a quick Google and a helpful website suggested that I might also be interested in a 9M pair of Naim SuperLumina speaker cables for the reasonable sum of $10,990.
I moved from NACA5 to some Sommer 2x4mm cable and it's been excellent. It's very flexible, sounds great, and easy to terminate, this sort of stuff:
https://www.studiospares.com/sommer-meridian-24mm-grey-speaker-cable-per-m_546410.htm
An important part for me was the flexibility, as i wheel my speakers around as they sit in the middle of the room, and I take advantage of casters to push them around, so the cables are moving all the time. I was finding that NACA5 had a way of popping out of the connectors on the bottom of my Shahinians which was a pain as they aren't that accessible.
Yes, one nice thing about twisted twin-axial 'pro style' 'speaker cables in a round outer jacket is that they are equally flexible in all directions about the cross-sectional axis.It was moving to Shahinian speakers that made me move away from NACA5 too. Until then I had no problem with its stiffness, I found it easy to just bend it into shape knowing that it would stay put.
I now use Chord cable which has the required flexibility (although I find Naim’s right angled plugs a good match for the Shahinian sockets.) The various alternatives that have a similar construction to NACA5 with a wide web separating the consuctors may be more flexible in one dimension, but they are still stiff in the other, so I would not choose A4, LK20, Tellurium Q etc either, even though the conductors are kept apart for good reason.
I never had a problem with Naim plugs and sockets, but I can see how the stiff cables might put undue strain on them if moved around.Yes, one nice thing about twisted twin-axial 'pro style' 'speaker cables in a round outer jacket is that they are equally flexible in all directions about the cross-sectional axis.
The ironic thing about NACA5 is that the 4mm sockets most likely to break are Naim's own board mounted Deltron ones. Over the years, I had two used NAITs on home loan from the dealers that had to have a 'speaker socket re-soldered before I could even try them out. With the original NAIT solder tracks, in particular, this can be a tricky job.