First Naim Experience

[kuma]

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Originally Posted by GoRedwings19 The cds3 uses a phillips transport? So what does the krell use if I may ask?

Yep.
A CDS3 uese Phillips CD10/VAM 1250 whilst a Krell kps25s uses JVC Pro transport mechanism. They also have used Teac VRDS as well as Sony transports on other models, yet Naim has been sticking with Phillips on all their CD players.

 

[GoRedwings19]

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Originally Posted by kuma Yep. A CDS3 uese Phillips CD10/VAM 1250 whilst a Krell kps25s uses JVC Pro transport mechanism. They also have used Teac VRDS as well as Sony transports on other models, yet Naim has been sticking with Phillips on all their CD players.

I thought it was phillips but was not sure. I was suprised to find the emm labs uses a phillips transport as I would of thought they used a teac transport.

Does the new flagship naim use a phillips transport as well?

 

[kuma]

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Originally Posted by GoRedwings19 I thought it was phillips but was not sure. I was suprised to find the emm labs uses a phillips transport as I would of thought they used a teac transport.

I haven't heard the emm labs in my rig ( only within a context of VTL/Wilson ), but Teac/Esoteric transports are S-L-O-W porkers.

 

[memepool]

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Originally Posted by kuma heh? I don't think that's the reason that a Naim player sounds different. My Krell plalyer actually uses the same Burr brown chip set as the CDS3 and they sound completely different from one another! The analogue output section cct. design and power supplies proably make up variances in voicing amongst different players.

I'm not saying the only difference which makes any difference is the DA converter because thats an over simplification obviously.
However if you compare say a Marantz CD50 to a CD52 where pretty much all the components are the same except the DA then I'm sure you would be able to tell the mult-bit DAC from the single bit one. Multi-bit does have a certain sound broadly speaking in the same way valves have a certain sound broadly speaking.

 

[kuma]

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Multi-bit does have a certain sound broadly speaking in the same way valves have a certain sound broadly speaking.

Perhaps.

It's hard to say because so far all the CD players I liked used multi-bit chip set except Linn Ikemi which surprised me.