My ongoing search for a tuner…
I have two tuners at home to demo now - and a splitter on the (omnidirectional with line of sight to the transmitter tower) FM antenna on the roof so I can have the tuners into the amp on adjacent line level inputs and switch between them.
I have a NAT03 on loan and a Quad 66 FM tuner on loan (with remote of course).
I gotta say, I expected the NAT03 to be better than the Quad 66 but there is almost nothing in it - the Quad is slightly better in terms of definition and tone - more space in the music. Piano notes are slightly rounder and strings are slightly more textured - the difference is small but noticeable.
The Quad has a Nordost Blue Heaven RCA interconnect and the NAT03 has a Chord Co Chrysalis DIN-RCA - going into an Accuphase E-280.
I also have the loan of a TAG McLaren T20 tuner (which is not for sale) and it absolutely beats the pants off both the Naim and the Quad. There’s no comparison - the TAG is very very good.
The NAT03 is going for a very reasonable price - so, would an olive FlatCap, if one came up for sale, make a huge difference to the NAT03 and therefore worth getting the NAT03 in the hopes of improving it with an eventual power supply?
I have two tuners at home to demo now - and a splitter on the (omnidirectional with line of sight to the transmitter tower) FM antenna on the roof so I can have the tuners into the amp on adjacent line level inputs and switch between them.
I have a NAT03 on loan and a Quad 66 FM tuner on loan (with remote of course).
I gotta say, I expected the NAT03 to be better than the Quad 66 but there is almost nothing in it - the Quad is slightly better in terms of definition and tone - more space in the music. Piano notes are slightly rounder and strings are slightly more textured - the difference is small but noticeable.
The Quad has a Nordost Blue Heaven RCA interconnect and the NAT03 has a Chord Co Chrysalis DIN-RCA - going into an Accuphase E-280.
I also have the loan of a TAG McLaren T20 tuner (which is not for sale) and it absolutely beats the pants off both the Naim and the Quad. There’s no comparison - the TAG is very very good.
The NAT03 is going for a very reasonable price - so, would an olive FlatCap, if one came up for sale, make a huge difference to the NAT03 and therefore worth getting the NAT03 in the hopes of improving it with an eventual power supply?