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BBC Radio 3 Trials 320kbps AAC Stream

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A post on the Naim Forum alerted me to this important BBC trial. How had I missed the announcements? I’d be interested in knowing where the announcements of this trial were made.

Here is the key BBC Blog and here is more information.

I’ve also found that Triode has already updated his wonderful BBCi Player Plugin for the Squeezebox to allow access to this feed.

Please try it, the quality is wonderful. With this quality for Radio 3 and BBC 6 Music and maybe 256kbps for Radio 4 and 7 we don’t need DAB at all.

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New Naim NDX high-end network player

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Naim today launched the NDX: Naim’s first dedicated network player. Designed and engineered to integrate into Naim’s range at a similar quality level as Naim’s innovative multi-award-winning HDX hard disk player and CDX2 the top selling high-end CD player, the NDX is performance upgradeable in stages as the owner demands.

The NDX is performance upgradeable by the addition of a XPS or PS 555 power supply and/or Naim DAC.

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Naim NDX: the performance upgradeable high-end network player

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3 September 2010. Salisbury, UK. Naim today launched the NDX: Naim’s first dedicated network player. Designed and engineered to integrate into Naim’s range at a similar quality level as Naim’s innovative multi-award-winning HDX hard disk player and CDX2 the top selling high-end CD player, the NDX is performance upgradeable in stages as the owner demands….

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Kindle hangs

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Two days in and my Kindle has hung. It locked up when reading the Daily Telegraph. No button presses worked except the power switch. However although it switched off, it wouldn’t switch back on. A quick call to Amazon’s Kindle helpline and a helpful chap called Antonio supplied the information, that the hard reset of holding the power switch on for 20 seconds would fix the problem. It did.

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Kindle arrived today

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Rather spookily the new Kindle arrived pre-setup to know it was mine. Out of the rather natty simple but effective packaging with a solid green feel it powered up calling itself Stephen’s Kindle. This was the 3G version which connected immediately to ‘Whispernet’ as Amazon calls it. It sort of out Appled Apple doing that. Very impressive.

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Chord Co Cadenza Interconnect

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A classic design revisited: based on the original Chord Chorus, the Cadenza uses heavy-gauge silver-plated oxygen free copper conductors in a twisted pair configuration. The 18 gauge multi-strand conductors deliver a more neutral tonal signature than the slightly larger 16 gauge of its predecessor, while maintaining the big, bold and dynamic presentation that so many…

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Chord Co launches new Cadenza Interconnect cable

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A classic design revisited: based on the original Chord Chorus, the Cadenza uses heavy-gauge silver-plated oxygen free copper conductors in a twisted pair configuration. The 18 gauge multi-strand conductors deliver a more neutral tonal signature than the slightly larger 16 gauge of its predecessor, while maintaining the big, bold and dynamic presentation that so many Chorus owners loved.

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iPhone 4 first impressions

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My iPhone 4 32Gb has arrived and is installed and working. What an amazing hassle. Vodafone managed to make the experience difficult and time consuming.

It’s working and with a Incipio Feather case the antenna problem isn’t that significant even though I hold my phone in my left hand.

The plusses are: a fabulous screen, it’s fast and mail using Exchange Server no longer slows it to a apparent halt.

The negatives are: it doesn’t fit so well or confidently in my hand, I’m struggling to get a screen protector to fit properly and I don’t like the look of it as much as my 3G.

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iOS 4 released too early?

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I’m now wishing I hadn’t upgraded my iPhone to iOS 4. It is now seriously slow. Even with the new profile from Apple to fix the Exchange bugs it’s seriously slow. Anybody else think that iOS 4 was released before they had finished it?

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