badger748
Former bacon enthusiast
That piece of halibut was good enough for Jehovah!Worthy of the Jehovah himself
That piece of halibut was good enough for Jehovah!Worthy of the Jehovah himself
I didn't just mean you. I'm talking about the hundreds of people who've just ordered a very expensive turntable without having any idea what it sounds like. Technically, it's not stupid if it turns out to be a sound investment, people buy ugly paintings for this exact reason, but it's stupid to me because for me, a turntable is for listening to music on.
By releasing these for pre-order before a single buyer or reviewer has had the chance to hear one Naim have just proven beyond doubt that they're all about the money now. Personally, I am no fan of the way Naim are going and I hope this turntable sounds mediocre leaving investors feeling a bit silly.
Hands up who thinks there is no way Clearaudio are going to built a turntable for someone else which sounds which sounds substantially better than their own?
I would suspect they’ll pick up a number of sales that way. Who knows how many but I very much doubt they haven’t done their homework on this. So far they’ve sold it in to the dealers, very successfully from what I hear. Sell-in is only half the story. If it doesn’t sell through then they won’t make more and the initial run is all there’ll be. Either way will do fine for Naim as they’ll be scarce and thus collectible/rare and sought after or there’s plenty of demand and they’ll keep production going. Whichever, they’ve sold the initial run: it’s up to the dealers to do their jobs now…You seem to forget the high end turntable market pretty much finished years ago. I would say around 2010 when most people interested in analogue had already bought their last turntable. There has been sales in the budget area and some mid fi turntables sold since to 40-50 year olds, but not a lot else...
Assuming that a lot of Naim owners will be using LP12's, do you think it likely that many of them will be chopping in their LP12's for the new Naim/Clearaudio turntable?
I'm waiting for the remote control version. Surprised at 16 large they haven't included it.I'm waiting for the shoe box version, but I think it only plays 45s...
Pete
I would suspect they’ll pick up a number of sales that way. Who knows how many but I very much doubt they haven’t done their homework on this. So far they’ve sold it in to the dealers, very successfully from what I hear. Sell-in is only half the story. If it doesn’t sell through then they won’t make more and the initial run is all there’ll be. Either way will do fine for Naim as they’ll be scarce and thus collectible/rare and sought after or there’s plenty of demand and they’ll keep production going. Whichever, they’ve sold the initial run: it’s up to the dealers to do their jobs now…
All those who attended and got a chance to hear it were moved to tears. Of course, that didn’t happen, so only a select few of us outside of Naim have had a chance to hear it before it was launched.
Green logo and current classic style is nearly 20 years old, ancient for hifi.Must be the end for the green logo and lights.
Given the prices of things at the higher end of the market, I think this is lower than I would have expected it to be.
NOTHING is safe from MQALook on the bright side. No networking misery, no app that won’t run on your phone, LP artwork twice the size of the biggest iPad, you have to get up every 20 minutes to keep music playing, no FLAC vs WAV controversy, not even got MQA.
Of course I think investment in vinyl in general is good but forgive my cynicism. I recon if the deck was truly competitive they'd put in dealers and let people hear it against the competition before taking orders. As it is, if all of the available decks are pre-sold, pretty much no one has an incentive to say anything against the deck is it is short of brilliant.
I've seen magnetic levitation on platters before but I don't understand how that works without getting cogging as one magnet moves over to the next.
One member of the Naim forum has done just that. He's sick of the tweaks, upgrades & fettling of his LP12 Klimax so it's bye bye Linn, Hello Naim for him. There will be others I'm guessing.You seem to forget the high end turntable market pretty much finished years ago. I would say around 2010 when most people interested in analogue had already bought their last turntable. There has been sales in the budget area and some mid fi turntables sold since to 40-50 year olds, but not a lot else...
Assuming that a lot of Naim owners will be using LP12's, do you think it likely that many of them will be chopping in their LP12's for the new Naim/Clearaudio turntable?
One member of the Naim forum has done just that. He's sick of the tweaks, upgrades & fettling of his LP12 Klimax so it's bye bye Linn, Hello Naim for him. There will be others I'm guessing.
One member of the Naim forum has done just that. He's sick of the tweaks, upgrades & fettling of his LP12 Klimax so it's bye bye Linn, Hello Naim for him. There will be others I'm guessing.