All,

I recently picked up one of the Hi-Fi mags and see that Naim Net will be ready to hit the shops in Oct. So I ask the qustion what can it do for me, I have a budget to spend on new kit this year and would like to know how and what Naim Net has to offer.

Like many I have a DVD5 and an AV2 can any of the new products replace these two, will they offer better performance than those two???

What sort of price will the new kit cost?? can I link it into my new PC I have just bought ( last one in the world to get internet in the home). So some info on what can be expected would benifit any future upgrade plans.

Neill

nothing , it seems

neil

Have you downloaded the brochure from www.naimnet.com
No indication of prices though

Ian

Well lets be honest its going to be expensive.

All

I have read the posts looked at it, and all I can pick up on is that you can have multi room, and a server. It must offer more as a consumer I find the information very thin to say the least. So any light that can be shed would be good.

Neill

NaimNet is a means of storing and distributing music at very high quality.

This range of products will be, primarily, of interest to custom installers and it is designed to meet their requirements while satisfying our demand for excellent sound quality.

Many previous “solutions” were compromised in terms of sound quality and unbelievably complex to set up and maintain. NaimNet overcomes these problems and promises to offer installers quality and simplicity.

N.F. - In the proposed range there is still no video server – so your DVD and AV2 have no replacement.

The audio server will be a high quality music server – ripping and storing music at the highest quality – with the usual (but enhanced) access to track and disc information. Most of the basics are readily understood from other servers – the advantages come from quality, ease of set-up and maintenance and a host of additional features.

I would think that, if your response to multiroom is, like me, “why not turn up the volume?”, then the distribution aspect will be of scant interest. However, the server looks to be interesting – especially if you want to rip, say, some loved but unplayed LPs to add to your CD music tracks. I suppose even my old cassettes might get an airing once they were more easily accessed.

adam
with regards to ripping a lp , is it hook said t/t up to server and bobs your uncle or will there have to be other components in the process

thanks

neil

As an aside ... do people here RIP LP's? And if so what software do you use? I've just started having fun with my old LP12 again, listening to some albums which I haven't spun for ages, and would really like to get them onto my iPod.

Mind you, I've only ripped enough CD's to fill up my 4GB Mini - the thought of spending large periods of my life ripping the other CD's fills me with dread let alone doing it for vinyl!

There are ripping services in the States at a dollar a pop but as usual in the UK that translates to a quid a go and I'd rather spend that dosh on more music. Even more expensive if you plan for the future and have uncompressed and compressed formats for MP2 players returned to you which one or two services do. Rock and hard place ...

Duncan

Duncan

Here's an option which I have used. Works great:
CD spin Dr.

Thanks for that. Tragically, however, it appears that I would have to cross over from The Dark Side (a PC) to run it. UNIX machines are best kept in a data centre IMHO! ;-)

Duncan

...as is THIS forum, as described here:

www.netcraft.com

Seriously, though, Spin Doctor works fine, I recommended it for a non-technical friend of mine for whom it has been a godsend.

It looks fine except I don't have a Mac and I can't see a PC version. Unless I'm going blind ...

Duncan

There are plenty of PC equivalents. Just don't expect them to be any good

Actually, the PC version is called Record Now 8 (also Roxio). Haven't tried it.
Record Now

Hi guys

Just been googling for Naimnet & found this link from Cedia UK There's a video interview & some pics.

J