With our typical obsessive attention to detail, all in the service of achieving the most authentic musical performance, the SUPERNAIT 3 benefits from the following features:
Class A headphone amplification
Alps Blue Velvet volume control
Reed relay input selection
Ceramic insulators for power transistors.
Galvanically isolated microprocessor control section
Microphone Isolating PCB Assemblies
Upgrade from the NAIT XS3 to the SUPERNAIT 3 and you'll benefit from a range of superior features, all designed to deliver even better sound quality:
Full 24V DR Module Onboard - Enjoy the purest power and performance enhancement of Naim's discrete regulation technology for the entire preamp stage.
Larger toroidal transformer on power supply – Provides higher power and recovery speed
Additional through-hole components in the signal path – further minimizes the negative effects of vibration and transient thermal conditions.
Chassis-mounted input jacks hand-wired to circuit boards – offers improved vibration isolation
Complete balance control Alps Blue Velvet
SUPERNAIT 3 integrated amplifier
technology and crafts
The updates in more detail:
Our R&D team has found a way to more than double the speed of the voltage gain stage, which in turn doubles the speed at which the speaker output stage can react.
The second gain stage transistors have been optimized so they no longer need to be protected by a cascode stage transistor. Removing the cascode means less stabilization is required from the amplifier: that doubles the speed of response and offers an improvement in sound quality.
The phono circuit topology comprises 3 stages: the gain stage, passive equalization, and final gain and active equalization. This allows for excellent noise performance, extended RIAA equalization beyond the audio band, and a large headroom.
All RIAA equalizing capacitors and RIAA resistors are 'through-hole' mounted film designs, with low microphonic pickup and excellent transient performance. As the phono stages are 1000 times more sensitive than other inputs, this greatly benefits sound quality.
The input impedance is 47k? in parallel with a capacitive load of 470pF; The gain is perfect for 5mV moving magnet cartridges.
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