cliveb;302139 Wrote: > ...I'd be looking at a different brand. That occurred to me too.
> By the way, I have nothing against M-Audio: I use a 2496 myself (driven > from a Linn LP12/Ittok/Karma/Naim 42.5, as it happens), and it has > never given me any trouble. Aha! a fellow old-time Brit audiophile :-) Judging by the price of s/h Naim amps, there are still a few of us about. I could sell my 42/140 for about £350. That is £100 more than I bought it for s/h in 1992! My old 42 has been brought back into service as the pre-amp for my 140 which is now amplifying the squeezebox in my main living room system after the Linn and 72/hi-cap were relocated to the lof... er audio editing suite ;-) To be honest (apart from a few crackles from the volume control) it sounds almost as good as the 72/hi-cap, particularly if it has been left on for a day or so. > > Edit: One last thing. Whatever soundcard you end up with, assuming it's > a semi-pro or pro device then you'll almost certainly find that the tape > feed from the NAC72 isn't hot enough, so you may need to use the main > outputs instead (and use the 72's volume control to set the recording > level). Ah right, I was struggling to find a way to adjust levels in the 2496 when it locked up the first time. You are right, the levels did seem a little low and there didn't seem to be any way to adjust them. I would need to use the output from the hi-cap then. Ordinary DIN->Phono i/o cables wouldn't work, so I would need a modified 4 pin "Snaic" cable with the main outputs terminated in a pair of phonos rather than another DIN. I might get my local Naim dealer to knock one up. They might even be standard issue as there must be plenty of others out there using Naim pre-amps with other brand power amps. Thanks for the tips! -- TheLastMan Matt ------------------------------------------------------------------------ TheLastMan's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=16021 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=47629
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