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Neat Acoustics launches floor standing Ultimatum XLi

In a surprise move Neat Acoustics launches a floor standing loudspeaker based on the already revered Ultimatum XLS model. The XLi will be available in July.

The Ultimatum XLi is a new floor standing loudspeaker of compact proportions, It is engineered to deliver greater performance than the Ultimatum XLS by using a floor standing cabinet to deliver separate volumes for mass loading and crossover isolation. This follows a significant number of requests from retailers and distributors around the world who found that the performance of the XLS was ideally suited to potential owners needs but a ‘floorstander’ would have been more domestically acceptable.

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Naim Boss Celebrates 30 Years

4th May 2011.  Salisbury,UK. Paul Stephenson took part in a significant celebration, involving the whole company, marking his 30 years working for Naim Audio.

Naim Audio, the UK’s leading hi-fi specialist design and manufacturing company, has just closed its financial year with a record turnover and growth of around fifteen percent. This contrasts to thirty years ago when Paul joined as the company’s only sales person with the brief to increase turnover from £250,000.

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Two new iPad apps from Naim

Two newly updated Naim apps are available as free of charge downloads from the App Store from the 1st April 2011. The new apps include native iPad support delivering a much richer experience. This along with the improvements detailed below ensures Naim owners continue to get the maximum flexibility of control of their systems along with Naim’s class-leading audio performance.

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iPod Touch now useless

Not one, but two Apple iPod Touches are now close to useless as their battery life is unpredictable – certainly less than 24hours when on standby.  Since updating to iOS 4.x battery life has shortened to the point of impracticality.

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iPod battery Indicator

Searching the internet for a solution just indicates that I’m not alone.  It appears that many owners of an Apple iPod Touch are also disappointed with the lack of response from Apple.

What can be done?  Any suggestions? Or do I just write them off to experience and plan in the future that any Apple purchases should be considered as only for the short-term?

 

Chord launches new VEE Plug

Inspired by the hand-turned acrylic plugs fitted to the high-end Sarum, Signature and Indigo interconnects, the new VEE Plug delivers demonstrable improvements in performance to all of the Chord interconnects now supplied as standard with the VEE plug.

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Naim starts shipping FraimLite

25 February 2010.  Bristol. Naim today announced that deliveries would commence of FraimLite, a hi-fi support system optimised for Naim’s entry-level components.

The simple but highly interdependent requirements of a good support system require exceptional thinking to achieve a system in balance.

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