CheshireCheese
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Wondering what pent-up demand is out there for a Teddy Pardo power Supply that is a direct replacement, in terms of performance, for the Naim 555DRPS?
In my experience the above applies also to his Teddycap mk2 and mk3Well it appears there is a concensus that the Teddy XPS is an improvement on the the Naim XPS with a smaller footprint, no hum and well.....the cost!
To my ears the T-Dac is way ahead of the nDac at less than half the price.
So there is a track record emerging.....
Well it appears there is a concensus that the Teddy XPS is an improvement on the the Naim XPS with a smaller footprint, no hum and well.....the cost!
Already exists. Used to use a naim 555, sold it and replaced with a chc, new cost is about 30%, comfortably beat it. Casework has a very nice too, but admit, doesn’t look quite as nice as the naim. But that isn’t worth £4K or so to me
Thanks.....Sean designs great products. Have you previewed the CHC 555PS?CHC does a rather good 555PS-alike model.
http://www.custom-hifi-cables.co.uk/home/power-supplies/chc-555ps
Interesting Paul. I have purchased power supply cables from Sean (CHC) in the past with great success. Sean is also a very nice chap to deal with.
Would be very interested in your detailed review of the CHC. Pity it is not as compact as a TP but perhaps that is not possible given the performance requirements?
Well it appears there is a concensus that the Teddy XPS is an improvement on the the Naim XPS .....
CHC does a rather good 555PS-alike model.
http://www.custom-hifi-cables.co.uk/home/power-supplies/chc-555ps
The naim had the edge with what you’d expect. Prat. A forward faster sounding mid. Attack on the leading edges. What you expect from what naim typically do to alter the sound. The chc beat it in every other way. Lower distortion, deeper bass, more open in top end and mids. But does it in a very similar sounding way to naim, a lot closer to their signature than TP, which seems to split opinion more, some say the TP is different rather than better
I have a chc555 and its a great piece of kit, tried it against my mates naim 555 on my NDS and the difference between them both is very small.
We both preferred the chc and with the price difference its a bargin.
I have just swapped the case on my chc555 into a naim olive 180 case, so it matches my 52 and 250 amps
I'm confident that any competent engineer can design "a direct replacement in terms of performance". What he can't do is address the buyer satisfaction that comes from buying the one with the right badge and the reassurance that you bought the best because you have a couple of thousand reasons to know it's the best and a credit card slip to prove it.I guess it is rather unlikely that any PS would be a "direct replacement in terms of performance" -- unless one has a rather loose definition of "direct" and "performance"...
I'm confident that any competent engineer can design "a direct replacement in terms of performance". What he can't do is address the buyer satisfaction that comes from buying the one with the right badge and the reassurance that you bought the best because you have a couple of thousand reasons to know it's the best and a credit card slip to prove it.
Edit: Seven thousand reasons. 7000. Jog on.
As others have said, you are into near one-off pricing here because the demand is so vanishingly low. It really is aimed at the bleeding edge of well-heeled hifi enthusiuasts and Naim aficionados in particular. It still won't be cheap, and when you've got that you have a mismatching case and that niggling fear that maybe, just maybe, the "real thing" might be a scintilla better.