HiFiman
Don't tell him Pike
The Nait2 has seen off 30 years of Naim kit that followed and is still loved I'm sure your Nait2 will be fine
New Naim streamer preamp
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The Nait2 has seen off 30 years of Naim kit that followed and is still loved I'm sure your Nait2 will be fine
I think they look ok, except for the preamp. Curious to know what album they were playing to feel the need to redact the information on the dinky screen. Diana Krall?
Perhaps there will be some manufacturing efficiencies so that these will be sold at a more competitive price than the current series?
Perhaps there will be some manufacturing efficiencies so that these will be sold at a more competitive price than the current series?
Alex S
carbon based lifeform
LOL
Whatsisnaim
pfm Member
Digital electronics often run hot. My DAC is the warmest box on my rack, and if you put it in with a toroidal power supply and a bunch of other stuff it will need some cooling in some situations.
Up to now Naim have used the whole case as a heatsink, but clearly they are now using fins instead (or as well).
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Tom60300
The truth hurts.
Once again, there is no greater truth in British HiFi than the reality that Naim is incapable of understanding that high gain circuit design and imbalanced ALPS potentiometers WILL ALWAYS BE A MASSIVE PROBLEM.
I feel confident that they will continue this embarrassingly amateurish legacy with the New Classic line. They have totally lost the plot since the Focal buy-out.
Paul Hindle
Do you mock me?
Hey! I just put on an lp and it’s got a scratch on it. It keeps playing the same bit over and over again! 
Hungry Halibut
pfm Member
It will be interesting to see what the middle splitty bit is made from. If it’s plastic, surely it’s going to get scratched to buggery in short order. It seems rather pointless to me. And as for the big volume knob with the silly shiny bit… They look great on the Nova etc when placed on the top, but on the front, I’m less sure. Doubtless people will get used to them in time. The inevitable ‘end of the world’ uproar on the Naim forum will be interesting.
cctaylor
pfm Member
Just looked at my collection 12,32 & 62. Yes, Volume Knobs on the left. Mine are all shoebox size and don't have screen, so knob is purely for volume.. I suppose this knob is multi-function and you may need to look at screen while using it which makes it more awkward for those use who are right handed.
Hungry Halibut
pfm Member
I’d imagine the knob is simply for volume, just like on the deceased 272.
You'll have to be quick to see anything negative on the Naim forum before the mods sweep it away.
matteo.renesto
pfm Member
popcorn ready
Hungry Halibut
pfm Member
Yes indeed. I was ticked off for daring to criticise Focal speakers. I remember the kerfuffle when CB went Olive, and then when Olive went Black, but the world didn’t end. In the case of the new classics, the horrid knob and silly plastic bit don’t look like a step in the right direction, but who cares what I think. Things apparently need to look shiny and modern.
I'm right-handed and use any hand to turn volume up/down on my Naim kit, its not an issue.
I'm not quite sure why I was ticked off, this seem to be ages ago and it will never be repealed it seem.
Never mind - I did certainly criticise the terrible Sopra speakers, maybe I said Snaic or Teddy, who knows.
No longer a place for anything near free speech, very restricted, my goodness I'd not want that moderator job for all the money in the world.
Thats a good joke
Whatsisnaim
pfm Member
None of the new products Naim have released since the Focal merger use Alps volume pots. Focal/Vervent have done some very nasty things to Naim, but making them use fiddly volume controls is not one of them.
chris peacock
Active Member
Do you have some more details on these “nasty things”?