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[agelessgoodguy]

About 40 or so invited guests collected at Audio Trends Ringwood to see the latest high end gear from UK maker NAIM.

Using a Naim amp and an older and current power supply they demonstrated the improvement in sound on their gear got from using their proprietary power cable called Power Line mains cable,, yes it did make a difference. One of these cables was the give away prize for the night.

A lot of the attendees were interested in their new UnitiLite,  UnitiQute & UnitiServe -SSD Hard Disk Players/Servers. We asked many questions and learnt that these devices are designed to rip stereo CD's into WAV files and save them onto either the built in 2TB HD or on the former model a separate drive of your choice, apparently about 2500 CD's worth! The machines can also double as players and can also stream their ripped files over two channels to an amp. SACD Hybrid discs rip only the CD product layer ATM so you cannot get the SACD stereo tracks ripped. These streamers only send out their own content so no good for streaming downloaded products. no video capability either.

They demonstrated the sound using the same reference material in mp3 rip  from iTunes,  DB Power Amp media files, Itunes ripped WAV files and the ripped product from their player playing WAV files; detail from their ripped WAV files was clearly better and much more detailed.
The Naim streamers don't come with remotes (can be brought if necessary as an extra) instead preferring to supply an apple product compatible app, other brands of phone apps aren't yet catered for.Wifi and cable are both supported but they prefer cabled steaming, no video out for separate displays of Metafile data either.

NAIM Staff in attendance made it very clear and proved that if you don't save your music in .WAV format anything less is just a loss you won't get back. They also claim that their ripping process will be every bit as good if not better then the original CD due to their patented software ripping and quality hardware. It does sound good indeed.

For more data and specs go here

Met Up with Mr Happypants and shared a pie or two as well as some nice red.

Thanks to Mark, Nick & co at Audio Trends and also Naim for the high quality CD given to each attendee, nice gear nice people.

Edited by agelessgoodguy, 15 May 2013 - 10:54 PM.

[SDL]

Did get an invite but stuck in Adelaide at the moment. Interesting though and will probably drop in and take a look at the equipment at some stage

[SimonNo10]

Sounded like a good night. Any idea of the cost for the Power Line mains cable? I know the price will be different depending on length, but there's no price on their website and it's not listed on Audio Trends website under Naim products.

[yorac]

Shame more people weren't aware of it................

[myrantz]

agelessgoodguy, on 15 May 2013 - 10:51 PM, said:

yes it did make a difference.

Booyah !

agelessgoodguy, on 15 May 2013 - 10:51 PM, said:

One of these cables was the give away prize for the night.

Lucky bugger !

[agelessgoodguy]

SimonNo10, on 16 May 2013 - 01:33 PM, said:

Sounded like a good night. Any idea of the cost for the Power Line mains cable? I know the price will be different depending on length, but there's no price on their website and it's not listed on Audio Trends website under Naim products.

We were also given goodies bag with plenty of NAIM data inside and a RRP price list, the 2M power cable given away is wait for it $760.00 incl of GST.!!!!!!

Edited by agelessgoodguy, 16 May 2013 - 04:50 PM.

[SimonNo10]

agelessgoodguy, on 16 May 2013 - 04:48 PM, said:

We were also given goodies bag with plenty of NAIM data inside and a RRP price list, the 2M power cable given away is wait for it $760.00 incl of GST.!!!!!!

Hmm no worries.Thought I would ask seeing as it made an impression. Thanks for the reply.

[buddhamus]

 yorac, on 16 May 2013 - 02:12 PM, said:

Shame more people weren't aware of it................

Couldnt agree more. I would of loved to go

[:)]

if on their mailing list you would have got an invite. sounds like a great turn out. unfortunately couldnt attend myself. have a good respect of the naim stuff have no doubt would have been pretty impressive

[SDL]

Don't tell them that al, it was all sounding like we were the chosen ones but now they know all they need to do is sign up for the emails

[buddhamus]

 SDL, on 16 May 2013 - 11:22 PM, said:

Don't tell them that al, it was all sounding like we were the chosen ones but now they know all they need to do is sign up for the emails

Lmao.....i felt like the only lonely kid on the playground lol

[bbar]

:), on 16 May 2013 - 08:17 PM, said:

if on their mailing list you would have got an invite. sounds like a great turn out. unfortunately couldnt attend myself. have a good respect of the naim stuff have no doubt would have been pretty impressive

Anyone got their. $21,000 CD player?

[yorac]

bbar, on 17 May 2013 - 12:59 PM, said:

Anyone got their. $21,000 CD player?

Funny I only got 8k for it on e-bay..............

[bbar]

yorac, on 17 May 2013 - 01:05 PM, said:

Funny I only got 8k for it on e-bay..............

Lol, yeah tough market......

[:)]

 bbar, on 17 May 2013 - 12:59 PM, said:

Anyone got their. $21,000 CD player?

Oh yeah traded my last car on one ! Hehe

Seriously these good opportunities to check out gear we wouldn't normally.gives good perspective what's out there

[SDL]

 bbar, on 17 May 2013 - 12:59 PM, said:

Anyone got their. $21,000 CD player?

It's my birthday next week and I hadn't treated myself yet so perhaps ill buy a player worth more than my speakers, amp and whole Cd collection....but perhaps not

[bbar]

SDL, on 17 May 2013 - 03:31 PM, said:

It's my birthday next week and I hadn't treated myself yet so perhaps ill buy a player worth more than my speakers, amp and whole Cd collection....but perhaps not

Lol, good one!

[agelessgoodguy]

In addition to their fine players amps etc, Naim also get involved in high quality CD production and offer you the chance to sample and or buy their productions at relatively low cost to see their catalogue please go here. There's few freebies in  there too. Happy listening