First foray into Shunyata PC's in 2025

[NaimYourTubes]

I'm running a modest system (which will continue to be modest for a while with 16 mo twins and my 3rd child having arrived on Thursday last week), composed of a Naim Supernait 3 + HiCap DR & NDX 2 + XPS-DR driving some as-yet-unreleased high efficiency speakers.

I started in early February with a Venom HC v2. Made a silly-good improvement on the Supernait. Then grabbed a Venom NR V12 for a song and put it on my XPS-DR (which powers the NDX 2). Again, as-advertised improvements.

So I recently acquired a Delta NR v1 for the HiCap DR that powers the class-A preamp section of the Supernait and...again... good Lord. The way it makes everything better...but you lose absolutely nothing in terms of dynamics. I'm a stone-cold believer in Shunyata PC's now.

I really appreciate the knowledge shared here in this subforum. I've read several dozen threads to completion. Thank you!

 

[Macattack]

Congratulations on your upgrades!

 

[NaimYourTubes]

Congratulations on your upgrades!

Thank you! I know I'm just scratching the surface with what I have in my system, but I'm disproportionately excited, nonetheless.

 

[Jim Treanor]

Congratulations on the twins and the new arrival. Funny, isn't it, how "just scratching the surface" yields such a performance jump. Glad you're enjoying the ride.

 

[NaimYourTubes]

Congratulations on the twins and the new arrival. Funny, isn't it, how "just scratching the surface" yields such a performance jump. Glad you're enjoying the ride.

Thank you!!

Oh it is funny indeed. I realize that I'm still likely in the bottom half or quartile in terms of the absolute performance that an Alpha or Sigma or Omega PC can deliver.

Still, I'm just happy as a clam and am listening to more music as a direct result. Which I think we all agree is what really matters.

 

[Sunny]

Congratulations. Don't ever apologize for building a high-performance system that is modest. Enjoy the process and stay connected. I love Shunyata cables and Power products.

 

[HitmanGFX]

So I recently acquired a Delta NR v1 for the HiCap DR that powers the class-A preamp section of the Supernait and...again... good Lord. The way it makes everything better...but you lose absolutely nothing in terms of dynamics. I'm a stone-cold believer in Shunyata PC's now.

I really appreciate the knowledge shared here in this subforum. I've read several dozen threads to completion. Thank you!

That is the part that impresses me with the Shunyata cables. I feel like I have mis-evaluated a lot of gear over the past 10 years because they were being held back by a veil that is on lesser copper cables (which can be worse than the noise and glare on stock power cables).

I had a Sony HAP-S1 sitting in storage for years. I put my Gamma NR cord into it and suddenly, its headphone-out is trading blows with my higher-end separates and I've been listening to music for close to eight hours. I've almost given the unit away because it sounded so poor before, now I'm trying to max out the hard drive with tunes so I can set it into my office cubicle. It being an all-in-one makes it good to test the effect of cables. Sure, the TH-X00 is brighter/peakier than the HD650 on it, but both are listenable and it's more about the headphone tuning/amp pairing and not glare imparted onto the source.