Is there a replacement planned for the Naim muso QB V2

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Is there a replacement planned for the Naim muso QB V2

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Any reply posted here will be a guess.

I would guess no.

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I put this very question to a Naim rep (Chris I think ?) at HiFi Corner’s open day in Edinburgh on Friday. Understandably he gave quite a non-committal reply , however he did say that the main reason for discontinuation was that John Lewis pulled out of stocking them and Naim’s minimum order for their contract manufacture was 500 units so that meant a high likelihood of being left with a large number of stock units at Naim waiting for dealers orders.

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That’s very sad. The Qb2 is a brilliant little thing - we have three - and surely it was viable before John Lewis started to stock them.

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Absolutely, just love mine. I find that strange given that JL still stock the big Muso. Could it be that given the price reduction on the big Muso the Qb just didn’t compete anymore?

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It was mentioned on another thread that the Muso team had left Naim and joined Cambridge audio……did not sound promising.

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Is there a competitor to the QB2? I.e. a non-Naim product around the same size and cost or is the QB in a market niche of its own?

Roger

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Maybe a Focal powered by Naim QB is in the works.

Of course, this is just a guess.

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I also have a QB2, and it's scattered around the house... I'm always amazed by how beautiful that little thing sounds. (Younger) Guests are pleasantly surprised when they hear it here in the house and ask the following questions:

Naim, what brand is that?

Where do you buy one of those?

I think that's the biggest problem, and always was: the sales channels weren't connected to the much larger target audience... that audience doesn't just walk into an audio store... they have to encounter it.
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“I also have a QB2, and it’s scattered around the house… I’m always amazed by how beautiful that little thing sounds. (Younger) Guests are pleasantly surprised when they hear it here in the house and ask the following questions:

Naim, what brand is that?

Where do you buy one of those?

I think that’s the biggest problem, and always was: the sales channels weren’t connected to the much larger target audience… that audience doesn’t just walk into an audio store… they have to encounter it.“

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Maybe the JBL Authentics series (200, 300, 500):

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Feels strange. You’d think the Qb didn’t have much competition, had excellent connectivity and was a way to tie people into the Naim (multiroom) ecosystem.

Once you have two Naim streamers it becomes more difficult to skip brand on upgrade because you lose the integration.

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Sonos seem to be down with the kids. My roofer asked me what all the boxes were (5si, 5XS, Emit 10) etc. When I told him he looked at me oddly and said “ Why haven’t you got Sonos?”. :man_shrugging:

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The simple answer is, politely, “it doesn’t sound as good”, to which the response is normally “I couldn’t hear any difference”, well that’s okay!

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I agree with you. But my response was to smile and say nothing :joy::joy::joy::joy:

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Not sure whether the JBL has Qobuz or BBC radio, both essential for me. I’m not in the market for a QB replacement at the moment, but if one of our QBs were to need replacing, I’d be tempted to look at the Audio Pro range.

Roger

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Gosh what a small ecosystem we must inhabit here. Seems unbelievable with all I have heard about Muso QB that Naim couldn’t “risk” ordering 500 of them.

.sjb

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Please refrain from posting unauthorised commercial links. Thank you.

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