Just had a look on the Naim forum. Looks very nicely made, as one would expect. A lot of SMD stuff, but I guess that’s par for the course these days, and shouldn’t be anything to fear long term. The better repair folk are getting the skills for sure. One thing I really like is they didn’t make it remote control. I have to admit I really like it. Yes, its crazy expensive, but assuming it manages to capture and maybe even improve on what was good about the original I’d take it over a fair bit of the modern audio market. I’d personally have preferred it without the complexity of the auto-sense thing. If you have to get up to switch inputs and adjust the volume, as you should with any quality audio, what is wrong with turning it on/off too? I’d have far preferred a tape input (i.e. send/return) too, unless the stream input does that. Given it has a phono stage I imagine some folk would like the option to record vinyl as one could on the original. A lot of people want a tape-loop to hook a computer interface to.
