martin clark
pinko bodger
So they are going to all this time, effort and expenditure to obtain a stack of 15 year old (or more) CD drive mechanisms in order to keep a load of ancient CD players on the road for a while longer?
Bless you.
Imagine if you had customers , who spent 5 figs on things like the CD555, and less than a decade later you have to say - sorry , it's scrap, because we do not have spares
(All these laser mech parts were dropped by Philips /over a decade ago; and the Naim -preferred DAC, the exceptional Burr-Browm PCM1704, K-grade, used in all the good stuff, inc the CD555 - had gone out of production in 2006!))
...such an exercise is cheap; and up-sells everyone else to 'New Naim' products.
Go figure. Naim have done sim before. I don't blame them for that: it is the art of good business.
And - I'm sure Naim would far-rather recover such unobtanium , from things they'd first done QC1 for acceptance -of, than any other shonky aftermarket sources.
(& No - I do not have any skin in this game/ not a Naimie.)