What’s the price in apples!
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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.
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Never again shall I take notice when you suggest Forum gets back on topic
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Good for you. Strike out on your own.
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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.
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So, if you buy a second hand amp for 3 grand and sell it five years later for 3 grand, all’s good. 
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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.
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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…
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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
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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.
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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.