JezA;558921 Wrote: > NAIM equipment is, apparently, very sensitive to mains quality and > mechanical vibration - NAIM themselves sell mains leads for several > hundred pounds a time, and similarly priced shelves, which, so they > claim, improve sound quality. If that is true, then it may well be that > your NAIM equimpment is sensitive to noise from (say) the switching > power suppy on your hard drive, or mechanical noise, or RF - who knows. > So even if you do hear a difference between the servers the reason for > that difference may lie in the susceptibility of your NAIM gear to > extraneous factors, rather than some inherent property of how you are > getting a digital out. Try playing music from another source through > your NAIM kit with the HDD on and close or off to see whether the NAIM > is sensitive to some aspect of the HDD, and do the same with the Touch.
Yes, Naim can be quite fussy but no space for dedicated hi-fi rack sadly. try moving the HDD away when I get hold of a lonfer USB2 cable -- ste1 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ste1's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=23522 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=79770 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles