Audiophile Sound Quality
Naim is famous throughout the world for the astonishing audio performance of its products. The Naim engineering team have applied some highly innovative solutions to be sure that the NaimNet Music Servers cannot be bettered.
Special techniques are used to ensure that the transfer of digital music data from a CD is of archival quality and a bit-perfect clone of the original CD data is ripped to the server's hard disk. Any form of error correction is disabled; data is only committed to hard disc storage after it has been verified as bit-perfect. Worn and damaged discs will take a little longer to transfer, and if a disc is damaged preventing the extraction of bit-perfect data, then the ripping monitor will inform the user.
Streaming from the server into the NaimNet multi-room environment is again bit perfect, and through the use of a Naim-developed Digital Transfer Card it is impossible for there to be any data corruption.
Local playback of selected music using the audio outputs is achieved by presenting the internal Digital to Analogue converters with bit-perfect data. However, there is further refinement, in that Naim go to great lengths to isolate the delicate analogue electronics from the digital environment within the server, by use of both optical and transformer isolation and the use of multiple-regulated analogue supplies from a dedicated linear power supply.
For full technical details of these technologies please download the following white papers.