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news summer 2006 • ELEVEN
Perhaps the most remarkable aspect of
n-Vi is that its huge capabilities come at
no cost to performance. Its video
performance is nearly identical to that of
our DVD5 - itself acknowledged as
among the best. Its CD replay
performance is competitive with a
stand-alone Naim CD player, and its
signal handling and decoding is
equivalent to our AV2 - not only one of
the finest audio-visual processors but also
a hugely capable high-end audio
preamplifier.
Along with the n-Vi’s set of features
being a first for Naim, so are many of the
technologies within. Two significant
examples are the n-Vi’s Switch Mode
“just” very fast analogue. Naim’s
implementation of Switch Mode and
Class D are hybrids - digital designed with
the discipline of analogue.
n-Vi not only has perhaps everything
you’ll ever need, but it’s all easily
accessible too. Just nine front panel
buttons and a double height display
creates a user interface that’s both
uncluttered and intuitive, while remote
control with fully interactive On Screen
Display provides the option of setup and
control in comfort.
power supply and Class D power
amplifiers. Both these “digital”
technologies, which offer significant
space, heat and efficiency savings over
conventional “analogue” techniques,
have long been the subject of research
projects at Naim and their development
to a level where they were ready to be
incorporated within a product came just
at the right time for the n-Vi. Overcoming
the electrical noise generated by the
high-frequency switching inherent in
both technologies was achieved in a
typically Naim fashion: borrowing the
techniques of digital circuit design
learned in the design of CD players and
treating digital systems as if they are
Fabulous
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