Bump
That comparison is a bit fishy.
I made a comment in the price rise topic about products that had not increased in price. Surmising that these may be due for replacement or being discontinued. The NAC-N272 was one of these.
Can someone with experience in computer graphics splice together a picture of the left half of the 272 with the right half of the NDX2. This is my guess as to what the new 272-2 would look like. It would retain the current 272 volume control but have the NDX2 screen and buttons to right of screen.
So in summary it would have the new streaming softwear, a slightly better preamp section and retain the classic casing, this would be the most logical looking successor in my opinion.
Take a NDX 2 and put a knob on it.
Retrofitted in an olive box?
That’s exactly it. As predicted about two years ago - the previous version will be out there somewhere. The ‘Uniti’ version looks hideous and will never happen.
You say that but some people think the Linn Selekt stuff looks good!
It looks a heck of a lot better than the full width Uniti boxes, which are a design disaster in my view. The Atom is nice but as for its pig-ugly older siblings which look like two small boxes that don’t match have been stuck together…
We will have to agree to disagree there. I quite like the Uniti look but I think the Selekt look like cheap shiny plastic front and miss matched thin metal rear case.
Well I’m not really bothered as I neither want nor own either. But if they made the 272.2 in a Uniti case it wouldn’t get houseroom. Anyway, that won’t happen so the point is moot. We’ll find out in May no doubt.
Yep I like either!!!..possibly I prefer the original classic look…just a little more.
Thanks for these …brilliant!!! (are you a mole within Naim!)
Looks very nice indeed!
My late mother-in-law used to live in Salisbury. Other than that I’m just a happy Naim customer of long standing.
Thanks for doing such a superb job Gwarminger. It looks really good. Sadly I do not think we will ever get an NDX2 shoe-horned into a 272, looking at the interior of the NDX2 which has a huge circuit board and no room for a preamp.
A preamp in this case is the input selector, a volume control,assembly and a high current line driver.
On the other hand I wouldnt make it too much like the NDX2 - that would just introduce confusion and deliberations for the customer. But I’m pretty certain Naim has such things under control, the 272 is proof of that.
With the Naim world- view that is six boxes.
In fact the optimal (for SQ) would be physical separation of left and right (earthing) like the Lejonklou Sagatun top model. Including power amps in a Naim world it woulld mean 16 boxes. Or with an active SL2/SBL 24 boxes. Now Lejonklou has modified dual SMPS internally in some kind of push/pull arrangement so they could do it with 12 2/3 (Linn-size) boxes.
Companies like Linn and Devialet seem to build as much as possible in software.