Naim Nait 50
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Only yourself can stop your endless repeating
Grow up FFS!
Reviews won’t make any difference, you’ve all made your minds up already.
Conan
Loop digger
I have. Not falling for it.
rough edges
Sapere Aude
It’s a nice gesture by Naim, but much too expensive except for the hardcore fanboys. I would never buy it without hearing it first, but some don’t seem to mind. To each their own.
One thing that the release of the Nait 50 has done, is that it has made me smile every time I listen to/look at my pristine green light Nait 1. Didn’t expect that.
One thing that the release of the Nait 50 has done, is that it has made me smile every time I listen to/look at my pristine green light Nait 1. Didn’t expect that.
It doesn’t have any non phono stage RCA inputs and so not user friendly outside the world of Naim. It’s clearly designed for Naim fans and more likely, older Naim fans. I think Naim thinks there are at least 1973 of them.
tpetsch
...The rhythm has Control
It has 2 standard Naim 5pin line level Aux inputs -although ones called Stream-, one simply needs a common RCA to Din cable for any phonostage RCA line output as always.
For people like us, yes, easy solution. It’s contrary to most if not all equipment out there and once people realize they need to spend even more money on device specific cable, they think why bother. My comment was more about whom this device is intended. If it was intended for new customers, would have had RCAs like all their other products.
Absolutely and a point that was made several times on this thread already but which will duly be ignored again. You can’t educate the stupid.
S-Man
StrivingON
I have no interest in buying one of these, but would be very interested to hear one. Seems like Naim knows how to produce amps with their ‘original’ sound, based on reviews of the recent classic series amps. I’m guessing the Nait 50 will have a good dose of this original sound.
I doubt we’ll ever see any measurements, but this would be interesting as well. Not least, because the original Nait 1 measured “dirty“.(And sounds dirty).
I doubt we’ll ever see any measurements, but this would be interesting as well. Not least, because the original Nait 1 measured “dirty“.(And sounds dirty).
I've heard the opposite - Naim seem to move further away from the "original" sound, which sort of began happening two decades ago when shift from Olive to Black Classic.
I have read many enthusiastic reviews of new classic, but also some which believe Naim are moving further away from original.
A good dose perhaps.
I doubt they would be able to retain the original sound massively and double the rating watt.
Current Uniti's seem to be a popular performance choice, I'd be surprised if sound signature would differ much from these.
S-Man
StrivingON
I’m basing my comments about Naim’s (ability at) voicing on this review:
https://the-ear.net/review-hardware/naim-new-classic-and-the-rhythm-divine/
Like all reviews, it might contain an element of truth!
https://the-ear.net/review-hardware/naim-new-classic-and-the-rhythm-divine/
Like all reviews, it might contain an element of truth!
Craig B
Re:trophile
Perhaps this has been made clear over on the Naim forum, but how does one explain the following wrt this supposedly being Naim's 50th anniversary year?
From 'naim audio owners manual' (various editions through the 1980s):
Also, Naim's product history page has NAP160 down as having been introduced in 1971.
From 'naim audio owners manual' (various editions through the 1980s):
Pinky
In suspense, not compressed
It seems '73 was when the company was officially incorporated although JV was working on and producing products before then:
https://www.naimaudio.com/our-story
https://www.naimaudio.com/our-story
Craig B
Re:trophile
Don't know about incorporation (in the UK business model sense), but the flyers all said 'Naim Audio Limited', going back to the one that included NAB300 (NAB = Naim Audio Broadcast).