Naims new cable........

Has anyone heared it yet .........?


Does this mean all the cable sceptics have been wrong all this time or are Naim jumping on the cable band wagon, to rip a few punters off ?

I've not heard the new cable ....but its causing a buzz on PF

 

I heard it at a demo in brighton (Audio-T)
It is supposed to mechanically decouple the two items connected.
It did make a difference, nothing huge, but a difference.
I would go into specifics but i honestly cant remember what it changed soundwise. It was a positive change though.

 

I'd agree with Dom. Heard it last night in a nice little set-piece dem including the CDS3 and CD555; the cable alone did improve things by a small margin - much smaller than the effect of swapping (or modding ) powersupplies, but not 'very difficult to discern, can you play that again' by any means.

I'm certainly not in the market for one though!

 

The explanation is as above - having conned people with power supply "upgrades" for years, why not take one small step further into villainy? We cable sceptics are never, and have never been, wrong

 

I agree with tones (no surprise there then ). I can't see how Naim bringing out a new cable could in any way imply that cable sceptics "have been wrong all this time" any more than L'Oreal bringing out an anti-wrinkle cream implies that anti-wrinkle creams work.

Naim are a business and they need to make money. The market for their core products is diminishing so the temptation of stepping into the obscenely high profit margin cable market becomes irresistable.

Michael.

 

i can hear my namesake spining in his grave.
how can something be mechanically decoupled (as if that would make a difference) and still conduct electricity without creatign a spark - which would be against some regulations surely?
much as i'm open minded to this sort of thing (cables making a difference - but not necessarily expensive ones) this has a distinct odour about it and it isn;t roses.
cheers


julian.

 

Are they copying Vertex-AQ which does a similar thing?

 

what? conduct electricity, be very overpriced and have a bunch of marketing spin behind them? why yes i believe you may well be correct.

seriously though. i think that vertex do indee use the same line in mumbo and indeed jumbo to flog their particular dead horse.
cheers


julian

 

Why do you associate Naim with cable sceptics?

Paul

 

NAIM are decidedly flat earth, hence the cable scepticism...?

 

But Naim are not and have never been 'cable sceptics'. Why do you think they shake their interconnects and mark all their cabling for direction?

Paul

 

Because they don't know what they're doing?

 

You mean just like Zanash?

Paul

 

I should have put a smiley on my post, I think Naim make some great products.

I've got no problem with Zanash (pete) or any other cabley-fied person. They like playing with cables and think theres a benefit, I don't. Doesn't mean we can't all be friends

 

I am reminded of the old joke about C&A knickers.

 

Which goes?

 

NAIM certainly believe in cables, or else their equipment would not work... ;D They however have never been into exotic cables, they have just have been concerned about using speaker cables with low capacitance (especially for older products), to keep their amps stable and they believe in DIN connectors, for very solid reasons (they sound better).

 

Q: Why do blondes get their knickers from C&A?
A: So they know which way around to put them on.

Getting back on topic:

What about the fairly exotically priced new and improved Burndy cables they've been selling for a while?

Michael.

 

Nicely naughty.

 

I think you need to explain yourself