I spent some time auditioning (visditioning?) an n-vi on Saturday and was suitably impressed with the a/v side of things. The CD side of things was no more than competent, but coming from my CDS-II POV I guess this was to be expected.

What did surprise me was the myriad of clicks, pops and assorted sound effects when mode/source switching with the box. I note from another thread that the AV2 also does this. Indeed the dealer said to me that "they (Naim) all do that, Sir!". Now this is a mantra that leaves me cold when I drop my TVR back to the dealers to have some should-have-been-sorted-when-they-built-it-fault rectified. Not something I expect in expensive electronic gear.

My question I guess is, am I going to have to live with this if I buy one of these? Or is this an early adopter experience, and likely to be ironed out in time?

One other thing, the dealer (who I was suitably unimpressed with on a number of fronts) tried to put the frighteners on me by claiming that the n-vi was going to rise in price by 20% in April - even though he claimed "no one has seen the new prices yet". Can anyone confirm this?

Thanks,

Duncan

Hi Duncan,

The best people to answer your question are probably Naim themselves. I emailed Adam a couple of weeks ago with a question about Naim/Chord speaker cable that he's probably heard 100 times. Nevertheless he got back to me within a couple of hours - very impressive, especially as it was late on a Friday afternoon.

Anyway, thought I should let you know that the April price for the n-Vi is £2995 or £3250 with the optional FM/DAB tuner module - i.e. as it is now.

Regarding your overall experience on Saturday, maybe you just caught someone on a bad day. In any case, I can n-Visage you trying out another dealer.

Regards,

Nicholas

Thanks Nicholas,

I should add, in the dealers defence, that he came back to me this evening and confirmed the prices rises to be c. four percent, but thought that the n-vi would not be affected.

Duncan