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posted Tue 01 April 03 15:03
Wow, what top service, Naim replied within 5 minutes of my email! Richard Dane at naim deserves a gold star.


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yes we've been doing a lot of work with SACD but so far we're not hugely impressed. There seem to be some fundamental problems with the system which we are looking to overcome. Certainly no commercially available SACD player we've heard has threatened the performance of our CD players on the musical fundamentals. We do feel there is potential there so work on SACD continues but we have no immediate plans to release a player yet...

As for the 7.1 channel pre-amp, that would obviously be a possibility for the future. The current AV2 can already be used this way with a musical performance on a par with our entry level 2 channel pre-amp - which put it way ahead of the competition musically. We are also looking at plans for a higher level AV processor/pre-amp which will offer a performance with 7.1 channel sources equivalent to our current 2 channel NAC 202/282 with the option for enhanced performance by adding an outboard power supply such as a Hi-Cap or Supercap

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