Focal & Naim 4+

I’ve been a fan of Naim since the early 1980’s one of my first set ups was a Naim pre amp and amp with a record deck and Epos speakers you thought the band you was playing in the same room as yourself unbelievable sound quality but time moves on and the way we play music from records and tapes to cd now digital I’m the proud owner of the mu so 2 and 4 mu so qb around my house they are great sounding not quite as good as my original set but not far off but for me with the new set up the biggest let down is Naim’s app and from time to time loosing the speakers one minute they are all there then they seem to disappear I’ve found myself resetting the speakers so the app finds them again the app needs work and as one person says the answer he was given was to hard wire the speakers your router surly this defeats the reason you bought the system so your able to use WiFi.
Speakers are fantastic app disappointing

Initial impressions were great. But then I don’t know whether it is for the reason I have the 1st gen Muso(s) and the newer platform is better, but this had been rollercoaster. I would say it works about 50% of the time, the range of issues is wide: ie. when I try navigating “too fast” within Tidal it freezes up and the app can not find my devices for 3-10 minutes, sometimes until I do a hard reboot on the speakers (power cut off). The latest is that it keeps switching to Bluetooth when playing internet radio. I thought it might be just it is connecting to something but it does it even when all phones or any device with Bluetooth in vicinity has Bluetooth disabled. I can straight connect via Bluetooth when this happens so the possibility of the neighbours prancing me is eliminated. Odd. No option to turn down or do anything with bass. I get it it was tuned to perfection and I just have to place the speaker where it sounds good. Problem is that people buying a Muso will often do so due to having no space for a proper hifi. I am in the same boat and I have very limited options of where these speakers can live. The bass is just all over the place and I can’t turn it down. At least a two-step bass reduction feature would be very very handy.

The latest update as of May 2022 has made things worse. Constantly does not start to play. I updated firmware yesterday too. Appreciate all that the app has to juggle with, however now if you left your ipad upstairs connected to your Naim and plonk yourself in your chair downstairs for a 10 minute cuppa and pick up your phone to get the hifi on it insists on you disconnecting the other connection. It never use to do this previously it would just take up where it was coming from. So you go upstairs and disconnect the ipad and then no app works or connects. So you end up doing things manually, and give up with convenience. The upshot is that that means Tidal streaming etc is impossible and you put a cd on……. whilst cancelling your subscription because one just can’t be bothered anymore. And well we at it how about adding a convenient search tool for searching all the internet radio stations in one go and not have to work through every country and state trying to find it, I meant to check that one out to see if it does now but just spent 15 minutes trying to connect and can’t……