This is what I love with naim besides great products 
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Many congratulations to everyone at Naim, past and present. Between you over time, youāve built something really unique and so worthwhile. The honesty and openness that @Pauls earlier message highlighted is apparent in everyone Iāve met from Naim, including the production team in Salisbury.
Innovative thinking in design and engineering is equally apparent in a very reliable and great sounding range of products too. I canāt think of another range of products that inspires such enthusiasm and affection from its customer base.
Your equipment continues to thrill and surprise me every time I listen to my system and the knowledge that you stand by your products so solidly in terms of servicing and design longevity is another unique customer oriented characteristic of Naim that I personally value incredibly highly. It is pretty unique.
I hope everyone in Salisbury gets to raise a glass of something this evening.
To the future of Naim Audio: Cheers!
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Probably a Hewlett Packard flatbed plotter that connected to other Hewlett Packard test equipment via a HP-IB port.
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Interested as to what this is
A prototype full width pre amp? 8 channel power amp?
My namesake; he used to get my post now and then, so I had to add āupstairs in ITā. Is Robin now the longest serving member of staff still there?
Exactly what I thought - I am proud to be part of the community.
Thanks for Paulās @Pauls words and that he has taken the time to write it down.
Possibly, Iām not sure though. Certainly Naim would be so much the poorer without him. When I joined Naim back just before the launch of the āoldā classic range (I canāt recall now whether it was 2001 or 2002?) I had a very steep learning curve as I was handling the incoming queries and technical questions via email and phone. I soon learned that Robin was a font of technical knowledge about all things Naim and was especially good at trouble shooting issues. His door was always open even when I could see he was super-busy. He was very patient and I learned so much from him. He is still the first one I email if thereās something really weird or difficult to diagnose with any piece of Naim kit. Indeed, I did so just today regarding some odd RFI issues affecting a NAC552. Thanks Robin.
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āDarling Happy Anniversareeeeeā¦ā
G
Isnāt just amazing how technology has moved on since the 1980s. It was not much later that I bought a Mac SE which with a math coprocessor 
that I could run matlab on with signal processing and control systems toolbox to do all sorts of things
Oh and a happy well deserved 50th birthday by the way
ā¦ a little blurred but thereās an unmistakable PaulS second from the right
From the vintage manuals
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Just reading Julianās wiki entry. What a guy - packed so much into a short life. A legend.
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Didnāt spot you Steve, but thereās a very obvious Jonathan/Tom/Ash/Dave gang of 4 at the front.
Thereās a few others I recognise.
Just found Richard P.
@Richard.Dane are you in the back row with Mark Raggett to your left? Mike, Roy, Gary in front?
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I think JVs 1st Jag and the company van which he liked to drive and scare all the visitors to death:)
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Yup, thatās me at the back standing between Jason G and Mark R. Also at the back some of you might recognise Adam M and Paul D.
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Oops didnāt recognise Jason! Can see Robin now. And Bob who I play table tennis with.
Paul I hope to see you sometime in the new season.
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Time for Richardās long awaited book, Naim - the Dane years?
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Is Clive in that photo? the chap who used to build the Aroās?
Yes, it looks like heās standing at the back against the wall just to Adamās right.
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I just wanted to join everyone else in wishing Naim and all of its staff past and present a very happy 50th birthday. Itās very hard indeed to think of any other company whose products have added so much joy to my life over such a prolonged period. From my Nait 1 in 1988 through 102/180 to my 82/250 combo today, Naim has brought the music I love to life for thirty five years. Since falling in love with the power, drama, dynamics and pace of that first Nait I have never purchased a hi-fi amplifier from any other company. Despite countless products passing through my hands for review down the years I havenāt ever been tempted to leave the Naim fold.
When I entered the industry right from the very beginning Naim were incredibly welcoming to me and I have very fond memories of my visits to the factory over the years and the times I have met Julian, Paul, Jason, Richard, Paul D, Doug and Steve S and others at the various shows.
The fact that Naim is utterly unique in its emotional impact came home to me when I auditioned the 102/180/SBL against a Krell/Martin Logan system. My wife is from Cork and we brought along a selection of records including Mary Blackās āSong for Irelandā. We played it on the Krell system first and both agreed it sounded pretty good, we then switched to the Naim and immediately I could feel my spine tingling and I had goosebumps. About a minute into the song I turned to my wife to see what she thought of it. She was sat there transfixed with tears streaming down her face just overcome with emotion.
We bought the Naimā¦
I think Jason Gould said it best when I was talking to him at the last Bristol show: āLots of manufacturers design and build good audio equipment with their minds and their intellect but at Naim we build audio equipment with our hearts.ā
I thought that was very beautiful and it perfectly encapsulates what Naim has stood for over the past 50 years. This company, these people theyāve touched us all as deeply as any artist could and speaking personally they have meant and do still mean so very much to me.
Happy Birthday to all of you and thank you for the musicā¦
JonathanG
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