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First designed by Naim Audio founder Julian Vereker in 1971, the NAP 200 has Naim Audio musicality written into its DNA. As Naim's first production amplifier, no single product encapsulates their philosophy better. Its design is simple and uncompromising, with a single-minded focus on one thing: creating an enduring musical connection with the listener. 

 

More recently the NAP 200 has benefitted from the years of research that went into the NAP 500 amplifier. Many of the developments from the 500 Series project have helped to revitalise its electronic design and componentry bringing significant and hard-earned gains to performance. Beneath this new technology however, it retains the values which helped to make it an icon: simplicity, focus and sheer musicality. 

 

The NAP 200 has been revitalised and reintroduced in 2015 with the addition of a Naim Audio DR (Discrete Regulator) module to power its partnered Naim Audio preamplifier. This comes alongside small improvements to some internal componentry and layout that combine to lift its musical performance even further than the original. 

 

 

The CD XT SE2 is the transport or disc spinning part of the ultimate Cyrus CD player system. At the highest levels of CD player development Cyrus have proved that it is beneficial to separate certain sections of the CD mechanics from the low level decoding sections. The most successful way they have found to do this is to manufacture the player in two separate chassis. The benefits of this approach bring higher resolution, quieter background and improved imagery. 

 

The reason Cyrus can manufacture CD players of such outstanding quality is their investment in a suite of bespoke ‘engineered for high-end CD’ software and electro mechanical projects that they collectively refer to as their Servo Evolution technology. SE engineering was especially developed for the CDXT project. 

 

 

 

Epic Reference combines elements of Chords Epic and Signature Reference speaker cable. A specially chosen soft PVC internal jacket is added to correctly space the shielding and minimise mechanical noise. A high density braid and foil shield is applied to each set of conductors and this is in turn protected by a translucent outer jacket, again chosen to reduce unwanted mechanical noise. 

The conductors are twisted together and clamped in place before being terminated. By separately shielding the positive and negative conductors of each speaker cable run, Chord can produce a version of Epic that sounds markedly more refined and musically coherent. It’s particularly good at carrying micro-dynamics and detail and brings great separation and definition to instruments and voices.