Somebody add atomic spikes, call an architect to destroy the house to make a room, somebody change the colour of the walls, put paper under the speakers or kill wife and children to have a better sound.
I hope you're not making the mistake to start running around spending money to better your machines while the only thing you have to do is listen to music.
Save your money for an upgrade and don't waste it in placebos.
That's my advice if i can give one imho.

I'm happy with one of these... (oh! and so is my system)...

In tests I've done with some Naim dealers I could hear the cable NGR-2 of Audioquest, and also Power-1 of Virtual Dynamics. In both cases, for me, the improvement was significant. Less distortion and better dynamics.

The price of both cables is about 200 €/cable.

There are only two samples, surely there are more things. That is why my post.

Greetings.

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Originally posted by naim_nymph:
I'm happy with one of these... (oh! and so is my system)...

Same here. Till the Powerline turns up next month.
Munch

The only time the hydra don't work well is when we get a power-cut ; )

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Originally posted by Gianluigi Mazzorana:
Somebody add atomic spikes, call an architect to destroy the house to make a room, somebody change the colour of the walls, put paper under the speakers or kill wife and children to have a better sound.
I hope you're not making the mistake to start running around spending money to better your machines while the only thing you have to do is listen to music.
Save your money for an upgrade and don't waste it in placebos.
That's my advice if i can give one imho.

QUESTION: Have you ever heard your system with other power cables? If so, I would like to give me your assessment, instead of questioning my rationality to listening to music.

Just keep abreast of new trends to know that the AC power cord and electricity conditioners are the last of the latter (proof of this is the Powerline). And it do not I tell, but more specialized magazines of hi-fi world. This is not an extravagance.

Thank you all for your replys.

Grahams Hydra was the best investment I made re power cables and I have tried Russ Andrews ones.

I use a set(3)of Nordost Vishnu. Out of curiosity I took them out and replaced with stock cords the other weekend. That experiment lasted 20 minutes. Vishnu is back.

Not a complete Naim system however (5x, flatcap, Conrad Johnson CA200 amp)

[QUOTE]Originally posted by Wotan:
Hi.

I would like any recommendations to replace Naim power cables. What do you think about Audioquest cables? I accept any suggestion.



If you look around this forum, you will find much info on power cords.... one should get a basic understanding of why or why not a power cord could or could not make a difference....

Steve

Wotan
I am using Isotek Supremes throughout my system and am very pleased with the result.

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Originally posted by Gianluigi Mazzorana:
Somebody add atomic spikes, call an architect to destroy the house to make a room, somebody change the colour of the walls, put paper under the speakers or kill wife and children to have a better sound.
I hope you're not making the mistake to start running around spending money to better your machines while the only thing you have to do is listen to music.

Of course this is a valid point Gianluigi.

But it can be simply good fun to see if you can achieve improvements and fine tune your system to your liking with other and smaller things than just buying another component higher up the Naim ladder. Naim systems are not immune to this as a lot seem (or want?) to think. And one doesn't exclude the other either. We all share a passion for Naim kit and the Naim sound here but fortunately we're not all the same. If you don't want or like to tweak and fiddle sometimes, that's fine. Others might do. I think there are more routes to improvements than to stapple the Naim price list to the wall.

Fellow Naimees who fiddle, experiment and try things are part of what makes this asylum interesting I think. And can contribute to our shared knowledge here. Only posts of the type 'I have a 202 -> get a 282' or 'I have a CDX -> get an XPS' would get pretty boring imo.

Richard.

Two power cables that work extremly good with naim gear are the Chord Co. power cable and the Atlas power cable. Both seem worthwhile improvements on the standard naim lead.

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Which other brand can offer such a nice forum?

I don't wan't any of that sort of talk. .There are no other brands.

Bob aka Captain Mainwaring

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I don't understand what Adam is on about half the time.

A bit like the policeman in 'Allo, 'Allo.

Wotan

What you are seeing here, in the responses you are getting, is the polarization between the folks that believe that nothing can possibly be better than that which Naim make and therefore you shouldn't even bother wasting your time trying and those who believe that there may be viable alternatives and who are open minded enough to try them.

You asked a great question earlier as to whether a contributor had actually tried other cables and in general you will find that many of the contributors here have not necessarily listened but reply based on a combination of dogma and brand loyalty (nothing wrong with brand loyalty and I am a good example of that).

So, feel free to try other cables, make up your own mind and beware of false prophets.

Regards

Jim

Thank you Jim.

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Originally posted by Exiled Highlander:
What you are seeing here, in the responses you are getting, is the polarization between the folks that believe that nothing can possibly be better than that which Naim make and therefore you shouldn't even bother wasting your time trying and those who believe that there may be viable alternatives and who are open minded enough to try them.

We don't make the existing supplied mains leads - just test the market and supply types we feel do a good job rather than screw things up.

Mains leads do seem to make a difference and pretty well all those offered as upgrades will therefore make a difference to the sound. Whether that difference consistently advances all aspects of sound quality is much the same question as pertains to interconnects.

Adam

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We don't make the existing supplied mains leads - just test the market and supply types we feel do a good job rather than screw things up.

I don't disagree with that response or the Naim approach in general but as you say mains leads do make a difference and some will undoubtedly find something that works better (for them) other than the standard Naim leads or the more expensive Powerlines. I know that I gained a reasonable improvement when I swapped my original US leads for the Tibia leads for example and again when I swapped the Wiremold for the Noisetrapper. Yes I know these were Naim (or more accurately NANA) approved but I'm sure there are other leads out there that will improve upon them again - there must be or Naim wouldn't have worked to create the Powerline - keep am open mind and a healthy degree of scepticism is my main point.

Cheers

Jim

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Originally posted by Exiled Highlander:
Adam
I don't disagree with that response or the Naim approach in general ...... keep am open mind and a healthy degree of scepticism is my main point.

It would appear that we agree.

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Originally posted by ewemon:
Grahams Hydra was the best investment I made re power cables and I have tried Russ Andrews ones.

I bought a 4 lead Hydra from another forum member. I had been using cables from a very fine outfit called the Missing Link. I found that with my kit that the Hydra, which is made from standard Naim cables, gave a more satsifying musical result than the previous non Naim cables.

I find it hard to qualify specifically, but do recall that I had used the Missing links opus-F cable on my CDX with very good results, a quieter more natural sound. But when used with an XPS on the CDX the dynamics struck me as diminished. I have to say that I felt that the difference was marginal in the CDX/XPS case.

You'll only know if you try. The hard part with Naim is that to take your system to another level requires a cost outlay that I find increasingly hard to justify.

regards

Peter