Hi Keith, I find the Mac / DAC1 using an optical cable comes very, very close to my CDX2 / XPS2. My wife can detect the differences more than I can! She thinks the Naim sound is more 'lively' and 'punchy' but I think that is the Naim house sound coming through.
I have not found the Benchmark to be clinical, but have found it to expose poor recordings, where as the Naim CDP seems to deal with poorer recordings slightly better. In answer to your question about trying the 250.2 - yes I did try it. I tried the 252 / Supercap / 250.2 combination and even had the 300 at home for a while. It was the stark realisation of how much £££ I would need to spend for what I considered more of the same i.e. the Naim sound. Now please don't get me wrong, I have been a Naim devotee for many, many years but as time has gone buy there have been aspects to the Naim sound that I have found I did not like and I realised there is more to hi-fi than Naim and Naim upgrades. I am very, very happy with the Dave Berning amp and Sonus Faber speakers, but really like the idea of having all my music on a hard disk. All the best, MontyW -- Monty_W ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Monty_W's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=13508 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=39182
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