James
Lord of the Erg\o/s
That depends on what aspect(s) of 'use' you value, but I know what you mean.I have known divorced men after the financial settlement, to crassly work out price - per use.
That depends on what aspect(s) of 'use' you value, but I know what you mean.I have known divorced men after the financial settlement, to crassly work out price - per use.
Is slurp a good reason?I'm sure the numbers are what they are for a good reason.
For people watching their pennies Wharfdale has always provided good speakers at an affordable price.HiFi should not be aspired to , it is a method of reproducing music , I'm listening to music on an old refurbed A&R A60 , via my PC into Wharfedale diamond 8.1 and its rocking my boat. If naim choose to chase the big money , thats their buisness (pun) and i really dont care , theres far better out there for less money.
Is slurp a good reason?
Been a long time since I looked at a price list! Naim better watch out or some of there gear is going to start gettin' very expensive!
;>P
Whether I do or or, it happens. I'd love to double my remuneration, but the market won't pay me that much because my skills and experience isn't worth that much. If I'm devious, I could indulge in a bit of puffery and fake it. But it wouldn't last.Regardless, would you like to be told how much you can or can't make?
Let's see how that lasts.The marketplace will decide in the end. At the moment, and for the last thirty years, the market seems to agree with their pricing.
As for a 50 year old chappie wanting a trophy,
No, you should have started LONG ago!!I am coming up to 50, does that mean I have to start looking for a trophy
I had it 'explained' to me yesterday how important it was to space the brains from the brawn - a good pitch to sell two fraims as opposed to one,...
how the 5 pin cables needed the collars slack and the 4 pins needed the collars tight, etc, etc
all of which made me wonder why anyone in their right mind would spend 3K on a psu to
'upgrade' their cd player.
Even with a 400 quid magical power cord thrown in this seems non sensical, especially since the din the system makes still bears little resemblance to anything I could bear for protracted listening.
Not quite the afternoon at the dentists it used to be with older Naim gear but still far from what I'd call a pleasant experience.
Really has me wondering how my cd player functions in one box.. not!
Everyone spends their spare cash and what they like. If it's better Naim and you can afford it, than a price hike is no big deal. I have to say that of all of my hobbies, I lost the urge to keep spending more on hifi much more quickly than my other distractions.
Oh. So the references of our generation are the only valid ones... Thanks God the young can benefit from our wisdom.i feel that a big problem here is hyperbole and delusion from young people who lack a proper benchmark (in terms of turntable and culture)
There are just as many people as there were in the past who are actively interested in learning what's necessary to produce good results. The difference is that people who used to fill family albums with out-of-focus or dreadfully underex pics (or didn't take any at all) can nowadays achieve perfectly acceptable photos. Sorry for our skills, but some of them just end up being obsolete - and I bet that when your family comes round, vuk, you use the automatic exposure of your camera (or let someone else do the job, there are automatic cameras after all). I don't see the point of manual focus when today's systems are way faster and more accurate, while still enabling you to set your focus manually when necessary. When I look at GEO or National Geographic I am not worried about today's generation of photographers.it's a generation that requires cameras to auto-focus, steady the hand, evaluate the light and make artistic decisions via flower/mountain/people/sports dial.
Si,
Separating boxes with transformers from boxes without has been going on for decades (far longer than the Fraim has existed in other words) and makes a difference in the sound.
Not sure what one has to do with the other but leaving DIN locks loose or tight does affect the sound but not the wallet. Which way is best varies with the supporting structure and room acoustics at high volumes. (No surprises as to what's going on in other words)
3K spent on a power supply can make a difference no other expenditure does. YMMV depending on the exact system.
Again, I'm not sure what a 400 quid magical power cord has to do with the functionality of a one or multiple box cd player but more importantly, it sounds like Naim isn't your cup of tea. I'd consider something else.
best of luck with your search,
dave
Sorry I was being sarcastic.
I just find it bizarre that people who have laughed for years at the suggestion a decent power cord could make a difference suddenly have a road to damascus experience when naim get on the bandwagon.
As to locking or unlocking din plugs, sorry this is just laughable,
had the guy spent 3K plus the price of four powerlines? 1.6k on a new pair of speakers, he may have had a chance of hearing these this? seems to say that phono plugs don't have these 'foibles'.
Don't get me started with tight fraims/slack fraims, on screws/of screws.
Long as he is happy fine but it galls me for his sake the amount of money he has spent 'upgrading' to get from unbearable to bearable.
I'm not searching and I'm not wasting my time farting about with tight or loose collars..
and getting back on thread, fair play to Naim, when you see the light you can sell it at a decent price
I just find it bizarre that people who have laughed for years at the suggestion a decent power cord could make a difference suddenly have a road to damascus experience when naim get on the bandwagon.