I have read a lot of opinions that state the need for the above cables when using Naim amplifiers.
I know that some people also say if using any other cables they need to be carefully matched to the amplifier with attention being paid to inductance and other things.
These opinions/beliefs seem to be held with varying levels of importance from person to person.
The question I would really like answered definitively is, can speaker cables, any speaker cables actually cause physical damage to a Naim (NAP90/3 - amp in question at the moment) olive or before amplifier (or speakers for that matter)? Or are the such strongly held preferences of some Naim enthusiasts purely from an audible (not unimportant in itself either of course) point of view with just a 'belief' that harm will be done if Naim's advice is not adhered to?
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I know that some people also say if using any other cables they need to be carefully matched to the amplifier with attention being paid to inductance and other things.
These opinions/beliefs seem to be held with varying levels of importance from person to person.
The question I would really like answered definitively is, can speaker cables, any speaker cables actually cause physical damage to a Naim (NAP90/3 - amp in question at the moment) olive or before amplifier (or speakers for that matter)? Or are the such strongly held preferences of some Naim enthusiasts purely from an audible (not unimportant in itself either of course) point of view with just a 'belief' that harm will be done if Naim's advice is not adhered to?
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Naim themselves are pretty specific on this --as you know they cant be very trusting on their 0.22ohm ww resistors inductance at the output nor the stability of their amplifiers.
I built variations of JLH amplifiers where he uses a ww 0.22 resistor never had any problems and John,s amps have a very small
Comp.capacitor and a sensitive input .
There is a history to this :-- around the same time Naim amps were hitting the high spots exotic cables made their appearance in every hi-fi mag.
Young guys bought them -- adverts-- "no capacitance --or no inductance -very low resistance -- every exotic type of conductor "
As a result some Naim amps blew and so a Legend was established .
Am I telling you to ignore Naim,s advice ----er no ! but I would be careful about any exotic cables you attach to them , it would take a brave man to tell you to go ahead and your Naim blew --back you would come spitting blood .
What you could do is connect an oscilloscope at the output pass a music signal that contains dynamics through it and slowly raise the volume watching for instability or run a frequency program covering not just the audio bandwidth but HF as well but that's only a suggestion.
I built variations of JLH amplifiers where he uses a ww 0.22 resistor never had any problems and John,s amps have a very small
Comp.capacitor and a sensitive input .
There is a history to this :-- around the same time Naim amps were hitting the high spots exotic cables made their appearance in every hi-fi mag.
Young guys bought them -- adverts-- "no capacitance --or no inductance -very low resistance -- every exotic type of conductor "
As a result some Naim amps blew and so a Legend was established .
Am I telling you to ignore Naim,s advice ----er no ! but I would be careful about any exotic cables you attach to them , it would take a brave man to tell you to go ahead and your Naim blew --back you would come spitting blood .
What you could do is connect an oscilloscope at the output pass a music signal that contains dynamics through it and slowly raise the volume watching for instability or run a frequency program covering not just the audio bandwidth but HF as well but that's only a suggestion.