Darren L
Egalitarian
Thanks, I'm using the same tonearm, Brinkmann 10.0 on a NA Dais with a Hana ML, I really like it and it has me curious about the Brinkmann TTs and their electronics.
Naim solstice price
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Thanks, I'm using the same tonearm, Brinkmann 10.0 on a NA Dais with a Hana ML, I really like it and it has me curious about the Brinkmann TTs and their electronics.
Enfield boy
pfm Member
It'd be nice but they mostly assembled a kit of parts from other manufacturers placed into a beautifully assembled unit with a great power supply. Unless they can extend the range of bits they make that will always be at the mercy of others.
Naim is not making turntables mind you, Clearaudio manufacture them, branded Naim.
Doubt Naim will ever get into high end CD player game, apart from their entrylevel CD5Si.
They discontinued their flagship CDS3 and CDS555 due to certain sub-parts seem to be discontinued or management couldn't estimate enough profit continue this niche.
Look at Rega...they managed to release the latest edition Saturn, which will be safely supported.
Lovely machines.
Naim’s CD players are still some of the best sounding players ever made whether parts were sourced in or not so they must have been doing something right despite the animal cruelty supporter above having yet another dig! Rega make great players too but a CD555 remains the joint best player I have ever heard alongside the Isis.
On topic I would love to hear a Solstice some time, outside my price range for a turntable these days, but I’d still love to head one.
On topic I would love to hear a Solstice some time, outside my price range for a turntable these days, but I’d still love to head one.
Agreed if they are working..., many no longer doesn't that..., thats why its not a dig..., but knowledge and experience which need to be spread as Naim's own information re. possible support has been opaque and heavily moderated.
Same with first generation Mu-So boom blasters (made in China - does this make Naim and owners animal cruelty supporter ?)
Long did they not inform if these players could be serviced and repaired.
Now they are more clear in mk2 generations are made for support while mk1 are to be scrapped directly if any issues.
Not excellent service for first time Naim owners of mk1, they were buying in good faith.
I could go on with issues, for example OLED screen fading on Uniti's leaving customers with extra future cost that nobody told them.
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Stop letting facts get in the way of his sad little crusade.
Midlandaudiox
Trade: Midland Audio X-Change
I’ve just picked up on this thread
We have a Sealed box Solstice (cancelled order)
Anyone interested in buying it please call to discuss
We have a Sealed box Solstice (cancelled order)
Anyone interested in buying it please call to discuss
per-Sony-fied
Me in another jacket
The deck on eBay has now been reduced by a £1000!
Del monaco
Del Monaco
My FIL had one of these for a while. It looked very Clearaudio and had an SME arm I believe. Sounded really good but they never quite took off.
Del monaco
Del Monaco
Amber Audio
This is the Day
Musical Fidelity M1 with SME M2-9 ?
Del monaco
Del Monaco
That’s the one.
colasblue
pfm Member
Curiously the significant majority of discounted units for sale all seem to have mysteriously vanished, with little indication of any actual sales (eg the ebay one has not appeared as a completed item).
One could speculate that there may be some market manipulation afoot since it seems unlikely that they all suddenly found buyers given that they'd been sitting for months in most cases.
One could speculate that there may be some market manipulation afoot since it seems unlikely that they all suddenly found buyers given that they'd been sitting for months in most cases.
Midlandaudiox
Trade: Midland Audio X-Change
it’s Naims attempt to try and sort this situation out
Do you know how?
Midlandaudiox
Trade: Midland Audio X-Change
Well from their point view having a reference product being sold off at ridiculous prices doesn’t bode well for them or owners or dealers
I have spoken to UK sales representatives who have assured me and other dealer who invested that the offending units if being offered by bonafide dealers they were actively getting them to remove listings
Obviously if it’s second hand then nothing can be done excessive t for them to attain them on the QT
I have spoken to UK sales representatives who have assured me and other dealer who invested that the offending units if being offered by bonafide dealers they were actively getting them to remove listings
Obviously if it’s second hand then nothing can be done excessive t for them to attain them on the QT
Paul Hindle
Do you mock me?
Interestingly, there are currently 14 NDSs on eBay uk right now, many around £2300 (£6250 in 2012) some even serviced with new screens. How’s that for a former reference product. Bargain!