A very special day was had by all attending the Naim & Dynaudio listening event we held at Audio T Portsmouth on 18th April. Customers who signed up to the event were treated to an exclusive demonstration of the superb Naim 300 series and Dynaudio’s awesome Confidence 50 speakers.

Star turns

Jason Gould, from Naim, and Bill Livingston, from Dynaudio, had star billing and led three sessions throughout the day.

They kicked off each session by telling our guests a little about the products and then guiding them through a structured listening session.

Jason talked guests through the quality of sound delivered by the Naim Uniti Core music server which makes bit-perfect rips of your CDs allowing for better-than-CD quality streaming.

This fed into the Naim NSS 333 streamer and then into the Naim NAC 332 pre-amp. Amplification was supplied by a pair of NAP 350 mono block power amps.

Bill then explained some of the history, philosophy and process behind the design of Dynaudio speakers, including the Confidence 50.

The Confidence range are the result of a ground-up process that saw Dynaudio rethink, redesign and retest every component for optimum performance at the price point.

Then the serious listening began.

Our guests first heard tracks played via the Naim Uniti Core into the NSS 333, NAC 332 and the NAP 350s.

Big sound

The sound through the big Dynaudio was as expansive, revealing and weighty as you might expect from a system with a combined retail price north of £60,000.

Jason then added a Naim NPX 300 power supply to the NSS 333 streamer and guests listened to the same tracks.

Jason about to add an NPX 300 into the mix

The music immediately sounded more textured with better presentation of microdetail and also enhanced tonality of the voices and instruments. We not only heard more of the music but also more of the space around and between the voices and instruments.

The next step was to add a second NPX 300 to the NAC 332 pre-amp.

Next level

With almost £12,000 of power supply now feeding the streamer and preamp this now £70k-plus system took another step towards musical nirvana.

What was striking about the system was the immediacy and intimacy of the presentation. The music sounded alive.

Singers were virtually present in the room, their voices rendered in all their glory, their imperfections, their strengths and their vulnerabilities. Instrumental tonality became three dimensional, for example what seemed like a single solid bass note was clearly revealed as two, while the snappy rap of the snare drum regained so much of the bite it would have in reality.

Hearing is believing

It is easy to wax lyrical about the way high-end systems reproduce music but, in reality, no amount of words are adequate substitute for listening. Hearing really is believing.

The Naim 300 series remains on demonstration along with the Confidence 50 speakers at Audio T Portsmouth. So, if you missed our event and want to hear for yourself what this incredible set-up sounds like, then contact us and we will happily arrange a demo for you.

For more on the Dynaudio Confidence 50s read our blog from August 2023 below.

Thanks for reading.

Alan - Audio T Portsmouth

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