Quote Originally Posted by audio amateur
I think you just completely and utterly insulted Ajani.
Very nice system you've got there by the way, i'm jealous.
lol not at all, I promise! I've got lots of respect for the SqueezeBox, its brilliant for the price, I know my system would be missing something without one. But keep in mind that the CD5x costs 10x the price, I would certainly hope it outperforms a streaming media player or DAC!

Now if only Naim would release a streaming media player which is capable of wireless and could stream FLAC, then we'd be talking. But for now all they have is the HDX for $8,000, which is hard drive based (can you imagine the hardware failures this guy will have in a few years?), not to mention no swing out drawer, just holds its own against the much cheaper CDX2 (not my favorite CD player in the world, needs an XPS2 power supply to really sing), and that the price is way out of anyone I know's ballpark.

Instead of a Naim DAC, let's see a Naim streaming music player in the 5-Series, for under $3,000 and they'd have a serious winner on their hands

cheers,
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