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G'Day

The NAIM amps have an uncompensated lobe in the bode response.

This makes them VERY susceptible to oscillation. Even cables above a certain value of capacitance are well known to make them oscillate supersonically. This is part of the "harshness" that people hear with these amps.

Connected to a Linn Isobarik (a speaker I do not like much) the earlier NAIM 250 SNAPS amps did give a good account of themselves with these (4 ohm) speakers. Mostly however, they sound ordinary for the squllions that they cost.

Regards,
Gary Jacobson



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