Naim is an example of a business that really , does not know how to innovate ,,, but instead, likes, playing some silly form of 'purported catch-up / improvements ' coupled of course, - with outrageous prices, to boot. Ditto, the same can be said - goes...... with Linn.
Alone, that sets up a business to be absorbed by other companies with bigger resources,wider vision and greater technical flexibilities.
AV is a classic example. To think elsewhere in the World , AV fans are already given the opportunity of not only having Dolby Atmos - but possibly also DTS-X sound.technology....in coming AV equipment : the mere thought of Naim or Linn ever putting out "their own mumbo -jumbo tired statement" on such advances...is too funny to think about.
2 channel 'purists' may decry various forms of digital multi-channel sound, yet readily ,seem to be willing to embrace all the methods of digital technology ...used today, to create/recreate the 'purist- footie tapping sounds' to which, they are listening
Even the analogue vinyl pressings presently released ...are so to speak -"tainted
" since digital processing of one kind or other - is /was used for the current preservation /restoration of archival sourced analogue recorded material , the pressings probably derive from.