Naim CD player Trade-in Scheme

[Joe P]

Pawnshop,

And a NAD CD player, I have the same one as that one and my mate still has mine from circa 1992

Get some Royd Sorcerers, too. They are awesome!

Joe

 

[Tony Lockhart]

Me too.
Had mine for almost the same amount of time.

Even my CDX is over 26 years old now, and it has travelled: factory > Saudi > two moves in Saudi > Suffolk > Essex > Cambridgeshire > Suffolk. Do they qualify for Airmiles?

 

[pfbaat]

Get some Royd Sorcerers, too

Thats where it becomes a bit difficult

 

[Mick P]

Joe

There is something nice about having an all Naim system.

 

[Joe P]

Mick,

I’d have bought a NAT 01 if it were available, but a Revox turned up for peanuts.

Joe

 

[pfbaat]

Joe

There is something nice about having an all Naim system.

No longer possible buying new, need Naim loudspeakers.

 

[MartinC]

All this talk about ancient Naim CD players makes me think my next DIY project may be to resurrect my CDX which sits in a box on our garage. It was modded with a flea power supply for the clock plus a few other things, and was used with a XPS which I sold. If I can find the transformer which I removed and the shorting plug might be a fun project.

 

[pfbaat]

You could also trade-in your old Naim CDX and receive £1500.00 off a Naim NDX2 and £550.00 off a Uniti Core CD ripper, bringing the total savings to £2050.00!

So they'd even sell you two items if you hand over your old CD5i ?

 

[Dowser]

Do all the players listed for trade in use the same mech (I haven’t checked)? If so it may be a grab for more reliable original Philips spares for what is becoming an increasingly unreliable market with the Chinese/Taiwanese clones. If the players still work today, then they probably will for years to come - if they don‘t a full strip/clean/relube would probably fix more than 50% of those that don’t - I have never thrown a VAM12x mech out for exactly this reason…but while clone replacements still work I use them (£25 quid versus 2 hours of my time). And they get to sell more of latest streaming tech, what’s not to like?

 

[Tony Lockhart]

Do all the players listed for trade in use the same mech (I haven’t checked)? If so it may be a grab for more reliable original Philips spares for what is becoming an increasingly unreliable market with the Chinese/Taiwanese clones. If the players still work today, then they probably will for years to come - if they don‘t a full strip/clean/relube would probably fix more than 50% of those that don’t - I have never thrown a VAM12x mech out for exactly this reason…but while clone replacements still work I use them (£25 quid versus 2 hours of my time). And they get to sell more of latest streaming tech, what’s not to like?

As has already been mentioned, why on earth would Naim want my 26 year old mech? It’s on borrowed time, they really wouldn’t want it.

 

[Dowser]

As has already been mentioned, why on earth would Naim want my 26 year old mech? It’s on borrowed time, they really wouldn’t want it.

If it’s still working now, it will probably go on doing so for quite some time

 

[pfbaat]

why on earth would Naim want my 26 year old mech

I can't see either dealers or Naim factory will find space room for hundreds of defunct CD players.

 

[Wine Man]

I'm sure Cyrus did a similar thing about 10 yrs ago. When the CDi was launched owners of older (more troubled) Cyrus players were invited to trade them in for a lump sum to upgrade to a CDi. A slightly cynical exercise some would say to remove unreliable players from their owners. Can't remember what the px figures were.

 

[Tony Lockhart]

I can't see either dealers or Naim factory will find space room for hundreds of defunct CD players.

They wouldn’t need to. Just remove the bits they need, recycle the rest, see where they stand, but I very much doubt that’s their intention.

 

[linnfomaniac83]

Joe

There is something nice about having an all Naim system.

I have two systems in regular use, an all Linn system and an all Naim system, both work tremendously well and just look right, especially the Naim stuff (I have a mixture of eras of linn, my Naim stuff in Classic series).

 

[naka]

Erm, why would CD owners want a streamer?

Exactly!

It's promotional.
But they don't need to do anything.
If your Naim CD player is old and iffy, or you don't use it much anymore or if you want to try a Naim streamer it's a great idea.
Why not?

If a NAIM CD is almost dead without the chance of repair… then it could be suitable to some, yes.

 

[Tony Lockhart]

I can't see either dealers or Naim factory will find space room for hundreds of defunct CD players.

They wouldn’t need to. Just remove the bits they need, recycle the rest, see where they stand, but I very much doubt that’s their plan.

 

[jpk]

Does the trade in program also include CD players that were serviced/recapped by third party techs or even diy guys? And what about CD players that already show problems?

 

[pfbaat]

Does the trade in program also include CD players that were serviced/recapped by third party techs or even diy guys? And what about CD players that already show problems?

Good question.
In any way, sales comes first, I believe you can hand over just about anything if they get their money for a rather overpriced kit.

 

[bec143]

I like the way my cd5/hicap sounds better than the trade in options. When it dies I'll have to decide if that's it for a roomful of cds. Probably get another but not sure why.