What’s the price in apples!
My first Naim is the Atom. Before that Naim was too much for me. The Atom is a great value. It opens up so many digital options. Listening to music is more fun. I’m old so I think that this really will be my last amplifier. My Rega and Hana cart are still my favorite source.
Never again shall I take notice when you suggest Forum gets back on topic
Good for you. Strike out on your own.
Thanks Dad; I’ll try and make you proud - perhaps I’ll win your approval once I determine which fish flakes will kill Nemo
I find naim so expensive to the point I’d never ever consider a new, and probably secondhand, as the massive and consistent price increases give used sellers ammunition to hike the secondhand price, sometimes to the original price that was years ago.
So, if you buy a second hand amp for 3 grand and sell it five years later for 3 grand, all’s good.
If no one buys a new car, or hifi come to that, there won’t be any second hand ones! Sorry for re-stating the obvious.
Roger
I love Naim. I think they’re so special. Please keep going!
I had a huge crush on both when I was a youngster.
The secondhand rip off example.
Naim atom release price £1600/£1800, now £2400+? Secondhand price of the very atom that cost £1600 new is and can be £1600+ secondhand.
Buyer’s beware.
or don’t buy.
What’s your point?
Me too…
Check my post, I don’t and won’t buy.
I’m not explaining my point if you can’t decipher
Hi Pete, yeah me too; they are/were both gorgeous. Barbara Eden is still alive and looks fabulous at 88
Barbara Eden is 89! I want to know what water she drinks!
I think that example is rather selective and a tad misleading. The price of the Atom when introduced in 2018 was £1999 but specifying HDMI added £150. I think it is now only available with HDMI and the price was £2249 in February of this year and £2399 in September. (All this is from the official Naim price lists.) That is an increase of £250 overall which is certainly steep, particularly during 2020, but this has been an exceptional year. Interestingly the Nova has only gone from £4199 in 2018 to £4299 some two and a half years later.
It makes me wonder if profit margins on the Atom turned out to be too thin to be sustainable at the original price particularly for a product produced in the UK, particularly during a time of Covid.
And it’s always possible to save a couple of hundred by going for the NAD M10. But, as you say, caveat emptor.
Roger
I reckon the price reflects the popularity of Atom. It is a beautiful looking component. Kind of like a Range Rover Evoque, compact and very capable.
expensive or inexpensive is a relative term, from the economic point of view - it is all about supply and demand, and that is the key thing for Naim to price their products.