XPS DR

Upgrade your music source.

OVERVIEW

The XPS is a simple and effective upgrade to enhance the music-making ability of your Naim Audio source component. As one of our most flexible performers it can be used to upgrade our CDX2 CD player and DAC digital to analogue converter, and it is also suitable for use with our NDS, NDX and ND5 XS network players and HDX hard-disk player/server. Its large toroidal transformer features four separate windings, coupled to six low-noise regulators and benefits from Naim Audio DR voltage regulator technology

Features

• Four isolated transformer windings with six low-noise DR power regulators - configured as two isolated regulators for digital at +15V, isolated +/-10V for DACs and isolated +/-23V for analogue stages
• All-new Discrete Regulator (DR) configuration, delivering Naim Audio’s best-ever standards of stable, low-noise power
• Brushed, black-anodised aluminium chassis plus anti-vibration feet

Technology & Craft

The Naim Audio XPS is a highly sophisticated power supply with six separately regulated, very low noise outputs, featuring a toroidal transformer and six power regulators. These supplies are branched and re-regulated, some twice in the CD player.

The addition of anti-vibration, resonance-controlling feet complement the elegant cast and extruded anti-magnetic chassis protect the sensitive internal components from resonance and microphonic vibration.

The XPS was updated in 2012 as a result of a two year project to develop a new discrete regulator (DR) for Naim Audio power supplies. The new Naim Audio DR now features, alongside improvements to the mechanical decoupling and internal layout. These enhancements, developed through intensive listening tests, significantly raise performance and make music even more communicative and enjoyable.

A technical white paper on the Naim Audio Discrete Regulator technology is available here.

Please note: only new classic series XPS units are compatible with the NDX network player, not ‘Olive’ versions. The old ‘Olive’ XPS is still compatible with CDX and CDS model CD players, the HDX hard disk player and the DAC digital to analogue converter however. Please consult your Naim Audio retailer if you are unsure of compatibility.

REVIEW & AWARDS

Naim NDX 2/XPS DR Music Streamer and PSU - Read More 

"The combination tested here gets to the heart of the music in a fashion that is impossible to ignore thanks to the immediacy and detail resolution that goes with it. Naim understands that music like art is more than an aesthetic experience; you can only enjoy the sound for so long, it’s the musical message that makes listening so rewarding. Strangely, Naim is in a pretty select club in this regard, presumably because this has always been their ethos and because their engineers know how to achieve such a difficult to define goal. They have certainly scored with the NDX 2 and XPS DR… back of the net, so to speak." - Jason Kennedy

 
Naim XPS DR – HiFi Review - Read More 

" have always wondered if and how a power supply could add value to my Naim system (or any system come to that). This XPS DR has delivered the performance boost you’d expect in spades for me, to such an extent it makes you vaguely suspicious of the underlying products. But I won’t go there. At these sorts of price levels and equipment specifications I think a power supply upgrade is a worthy consideration, although I read on various forums (fora?) that a 250 DR to 300DR upgrade (that also has a separate power supply) is worth consideration too. My first award of 2020 is an ‘Outstanding’, without question. " - Simon Wilce

SPECIFICATIONS