Anybody tried Naim integrated with ATC speakers?

I'm not sure about LARGE scale opera/symphonic works, but the Naim/ATC combo is wonderful. As long as your room is not gigantic, you'll be in love.

At 85dB/watt/meter, they are fairly insensitive and the 60wpc may not be an apt match, especially for large orchestral works unless your room is small and/or you listen at lower levels. Just a guess but these are two names that I would not usually think of in the same context.

Kal

Sounds like Lindisfarne has direct experience with this matching. I do not but have never heard a smallish stand mount or floor stander sound bad with the Nait 5. The XS has more steam than the 5, and so should be able to starch the ATC's shorts for most types of music and at most listening volumes.

Naim doesn't post many specifications on their website, so it is difficult to compare peak current capability or dampening factor for their amplifiers, but from personal experience, their power ratings are conservative compared with other makes. Generally, Naim amps seem to behave somewhere in between tube and other solid state rigs in terms of speaker driving capacity per advertised wattage, i.e. they seem to do more with less.

I'd say you are at the minimum power that you would want. The problem with ATC is that they play very cleanly (low distortion) without effort and, as a result, there is always a tendency to increase the volume. A NAD M3 would go well with those speakers..

The NAD M3 seems like a nice idea.

Kal