Mr. viridian
Thanks for your incite. NAIM is special. Nothing is standard with that firm and products. They have a special interconnect (not RCA and not XLR): a 3 pin DIN with bayonet. They have a look of a badly painted black shoebox and a price of bankrupt! with a green light that reminding me the Saudi flag. So is their approach to the speaker wire and interconnect cables. Buying a naim system is a closed case in deed, because it is a catholic marriage. They force you to keep with naim. They went a bit too far with that, so they turned into a cult. Like a new religion called naim! You need to join it, learn the naim bible and live by that. A tiny slip and you are out. I see you are already a preacher of that bible.
I don't like to be forced. I don't like cults and I don't like naim. Case closed.