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Best Cable Line for Naim


I work for a Naim dealer, and we love the Naim gear, however, we have a long run 25feet of speaker cable that causes the Naim gear to run too hot. 

We are not big fans of Naim cable. the issue is what cable is stable with Naim gear which wants to see a certain amount of impedance. 

Not interested in Nordost, or Audioquest,  or  some strange home brew, looking for a major established cable company and a company who makes different levels of sound quality and prices.

Interested in anyone who has used Tara Labs, Synergistic, and anyone other major cable companies. 




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lou_setriodes
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Does it void the warranty if you use other wire besides what they spec out?  Always thought that NACA-5 wire was good?

I've never owned Naim gear but always thought their stuff was pretty inter-dependent?  Kind of like Spectral gear.  I've heard with Spectral gear you have to use certain interconnects and its best to use their amp with their preamp.
sfall
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"Not interested in Nordost, or Audioquest,  or  some strange home brew, looking for a major established cable company and a company who makes different levels of sound quality and prices."

Is that a typo? AQ is the biggest, most established cable company in high end. Nordost is not far behind.

"Interested in anyone who has used Tara Labs, Synergistic, and anyone other major cable companies."

I've used all 4 brands with Naim, but before I make any specific comments, it would help to know if the above was an error.


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audiotroy OP
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We have tested the AQ cables and the Nordost cables vs the Wireworlds  which were far more extended  and generally outperformed the other brands.

Love their sound it is just that their impedance is too low for the Naim gear to be comfortable with. 

What Naim gear did you test cables with? We run a NAC 272/NAP 250.DR, as well as Uniti Products.

The NAC cables are not up to the sound quality of the major companies.


larryi
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The longer run would mean higher impedance, so a high impedance cable does not seem to make sense.  Isn't Naim gear, like some other brands, sensitive to capacitance, such that you are looking for a low capacitance/high inductance cable?
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audiotroy OP
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Meant inductance
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