Featured Blog Posts - The Tom Tom Club2024-03-28T21:53:15Zhttp://thetomtomclub.ning.com/profiles/blog/feed?promoted=1&xn_auth=noKeeping a Safe Distancetag:thetomtomclub.ning.com,2020-04-01:6506457:BlogPost:279322020-04-01T10:30:00.000ZTom Tom Audiohttp://thetomtomclub.ning.com/profile/0i13uhxydmlpw
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<p>Book a demo before the end of June and we’ll give you a voucher to spend on your next upgrade. <a href="mailto:tunes@tomtomaudio.co.uk?subject=Book%20a%20demo" target="_blank">Email us now</a> for full details of the offer.</p>
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<p>Book a demo before the end of June and we’ll give you a voucher to spend on your next upgrade. <a href="mailto:tunes@tomtomaudio.co.uk?subject=Book%20a%20demo" target="_blank">Email us now</a> for full details of the offer.</p>Tom Tom's 10th Birthday Partytag:thetomtomclub.ning.com,2012-11-01:6506457:BlogPost:27122012-11-01T11:45:48.000ZTom Tom Audiohttp://thetomtomclub.ning.com/profile/0i13uhxydmlpw
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<p>A day or so after James’ visit to Focal it was the turn of the press to be shown the facilities and technologies that this impressive company has at its disposal. We started our tour at the cabinet factory in the small town of Bourbon Lancy, this is where Focal builds and finishes the woodwork for its Utopia and Electra ranges, the top end stuff with the complicated shapes and fancy finishes. It’s not a huge place but there’s an awful lot of precision machined MDF in it and the quality of…</p>
<p>A day or so after James’ visit to Focal it was the turn of the press to be shown the facilities and technologies that this impressive company has at its disposal. We started our tour at the cabinet factory in the small town of Bourbon Lancy, this is where Focal builds and finishes the woodwork for its Utopia and Electra ranges, the top end stuff with the complicated shapes and fancy finishes. It’s not a huge place but there’s an awful lot of precision machined MDF in it and the quality of cabinets it produces is stunning.</p>
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<p>Focal has benefited from hiring a lacquer expert whose previous job was to restore furniture for the King of Morocco, apparently the political situation got a bit too unstable for his liking in recent times and he returned to his native soil. The company offers custom finishing of its top ranges and colours like Lamborghini orange and Hot Chocolat from BMW Mini are distinct favourites, I preferred the slate grey and mahogany combination on a pair of Diablos but I none of my peers agreed, pearls before swine etc!</p>
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<p>Left: Grande Utopia in the new dem room. Right: MD Gerrard Chretien with mahogany Diablo</p>
<p>At the main factory in Saint Etienne Focal builds the drivers for pretty much its entire range, models that span the in-car, professional audio and domestic audio world. The company specialises in foam cored sandwich drivers which it is able to custom build by varying the amount of polyglas skins on differing thicknesses of foam. This means that speakers are not balanced by electrical changes to the crossover as is usually the case but by making a driver to suit the cabinet size and application.</p>
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<p>Focal makes exclusively metal tweeters, inverted dome types in either mag-alloy or beryllium. The latter is said to be 100x the price of gold so I was surprised to see so many in production, however things are obviously going well for the company and there are Be tweeters on Electra as well as Utopia models. It was hard not to notice how many attractive workers they have on the production line down there, there’s either something in the Evian or all the less charming employees had another holiday on that day, they are French after all.</p>
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<p>Having paid our dues we were rewarded with a visit to the jazz festival in nearby Vienne. This has the advantage of a large Roman amphitheatre where the sound is spectacular because the natural amplification works so well. We saw Larry Carlton and Al Di Meola, the latter making a superb sound with his New World Orchestra. If you’re ever in that neck of the woods in early July make sure you get tickets, whoever is playing.</p>
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<p> </p>Feedback From the Festival of Soundtag:thetomtomclub.ning.com,2012-05-31:6506457:BlogPost:7022012-05-31T08:00:00.000ZTom Tom Audiohttp://thetomtomclub.ning.com/profile/0i13uhxydmlpw
<p>Thank you very much everyone for the feedback over on the Naim Forum:-</p>
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<p>Here are just a few of the comments:-</p>
<p>Just got in from the morning session. Thank you to James and his team along with Dougie and and everyone from Naim for a very well run show.</p>
<p>Apparently it was the first public demo of the DR…</p>
<p>Thank you very much everyone for the feedback over on the Naim Forum:-</p>
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<p>Here are just a few of the comments:-</p>
<p>Just got in from the morning session. Thank you to James and his team along with Dougie and and everyone from Naim for a very well run show.</p>
<p>Apparently it was the first public demo of the DR upgrade. I know lots of you are wanting to know what it's like. Well, start saving your pennies, IMHO it's worth it. The XPS on the NDX, then the 555PS with the NDS were compared followed by the Supercap on the SNAXO and finally, and for me the greatest improvement, the 552PS.</p>
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<p>I was at the morning session too. Firstly huge thanks to james, Henry and the tom tom team for another entertaining event and some cracking scones and cream!</p>
<p>So after 300s last year we were treated to three 500s this year which really underpinned the demo and fully illuminated the changes and improvements in the front end. Couple of early thoughts from me (still reeling truth be told)</p>
<p>New regulators: for me they are a clear improvement and may well be worth the upgrade (depending on price of course) but for calibration purposes I would say that the old 555 easily sees off the new xps2 so 'evolution' not 'revolution'.</p>
<p>NDS: I think this sounded substantially better than the ndx. Actually with the new 555 ps I suspect that it is the best naim digital source .....I've "only" got a cdx2/DAC/xps2 though so perhaps it would be better if those with cd555s answered that one!</p>
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<p>Just got back from a fascinating afternoon. This was my first experience with the NDS and after all the positive reviews I was not disappointed! What a fantastic bit of kit... A real game changer in the world of streaming and one that has forced me to rethink my options for future upgrades. I've been using the DAC for about 2 years, and was planning to add a 555PS shortly, but the NDS seemed far more musically compelling than I was expecting, so I'm now seriously considering dropping my trusty Transporter and joining the Naim streaming fraternity. Still need to hear NDS vs DAC with various power supply options in my own room, but I'm pretty sure the NDS is they way I'll be heading soon.</p>
<p> The other highlight was of course the new DR power supplies - I can only echo the words in the DR thread - these are a massive upgrade. The most noticeable change was swapping a standard XPS for a new DR version on the NDX; totally changed the presentation. Much more open and transparent, with far more of the subtle musical texture coming through. Further improvements were noted after the swap to an NDS as progressively each PS was swapped to the DR version. Even on a more modest system in the other room swapping a HiCap to the DR type totally transformed the sound.</p>
<p> So, in summary the DRs really work, and the NDS is probably the best streamer in the world...</p>
<p>It was also great to see so many forum folk - FixedWheel, BigH and others - sorry I'm crap with names, and tying forum names to real names to faces etc is often beyond my capabilities... So, for anyone I met I was the big bugger with the stripy shirt.</p>
<p>Best wishes all, and thanks to James, Naim and the Tom Tom crew for another great event.</p>
<p>Dave BK</p>
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<p>Evening all. Here are my findings from my notes taken at the Tom Tom today. But first a big thank you to James for putting it on. To Chris for selling vinyl ( it made for a very expensive day out ). And especially to the Naim Team With a very big thank you to Mark Ragget.</p>
<p>So how was it. It was cracking, I reccomend it if you are thinking of going tomorrow.</p>
<p>The DR is a very positive upgrade. It's much easier to focus on the difference in the smaller Hicap room than the big room. Not because it was any less but because the overall sound was so captivating. The biggest difference was connecting an NDS to a DR PSU. Wow! What a fantastic sound the NDS made. Next was the DR on a 552 which was at least equall to the difference a 552 makes when upgraded from a lesser preamp.</p>
<p>The FlatEarther</p>The Best of Britishtag:thetomtomclub.ning.com,2012-06-02:6506457:BlogPost:7112012-06-02T14:05:33.000ZTom Tom Audiohttp://thetomtomclub.ning.com/profile/0i13uhxydmlpw
<p>We're always very proud to represent the best of British HiFi.</p>
<p>Have a great Jubilee weekend everybody.</p>
<p>Cheers</p>
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<p>We're always very proud to represent the best of British HiFi.</p>
<p>Have a great Jubilee weekend everybody.</p>
<p>Cheers</p>
<p>James<a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/3002443542?profile=original" target="_self"><img width="750" src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/3002443542?profile=RESIZE_1024x1024" width="750" class="align-full"/></a></p>