I have six ESL57s in my main system. Remarkably good sound - they have never been bettered, in my (biased) opinion!
Although I suspect that Guy Lamotte’s FL-1 prototype ‘battleship’ ESLs for Naim would have been very special indeed. At least he gave us the ARO and a Naim tuner before heading back to his native France.
No! He just has a very short power lead.
Is that not the optimum angle forgetting the best sound 
lol that’s the iphone camera lens doing its thing. Portrait orientation was making the nait look too tall, landscape was making it look too wide. So hence the angle.
Did he also design the NBLs ?
Yes, it was one of Phil’s designs, and something of a progression onwards from ideas he tried with the M-S 442 where the drivers were bolted rigidly to an internal skeleton while the cabinet itself was essentially compliantly decoupled and hung from the top.
A similar-ish concept of hanging the cabinet from the top of a stiff central spine or skeleton was adopted by the somewhat short-lived Rowntree Acoustics Omnimon. This was a fascinating speaker and one that I was most impressed by when I first heard it at the Heathrow show.
No I didn’t end up purchasing that one. This one has the standard 1.5m lead.
I have one of those racks as well somewhere … one under the synology. Bought it end of 1980s at phonosophie (20 min drive) - this time it was only called tripod 
Congratulations - have done this also very recently
Thank you.
you’ve probably bought the other one I was looking to buy 
. I haven’t even had the chance to fire it up at home, although I think first course of action is to send it in for a service.
Try it first,they don’t have the same components these days so the sound can be altered after service…
Interesting you say that. Wouldn’t you say the caps HAVE to be replaced after 40 years?
Those blue Philips hold for very long and the ones used now don’t sound the same.
Kind of need two Nait’s really and then compare.
I certainly felt that some of the timing and excitement was lost after my red-LED Nait service, but on the other hand it played the tune a bit better post service.
I did more recently compare a serviced to unserviced NAC 32.5 and defo preferred the serviced one, but that doesn’t mean the OP or myself would prefer a serviced Nait.
How long after the service did you compare?
I can’t imagine a 40 year old unit wouldn’t benefit from a service. I’d be happy to be proved wrong though
Caps are strange things. Unused in a cupboard for years slowly deteriorating can suddenly fail, just as ones left switched on for 40 years can sound absolutely perfect. I would imagine there is a way of testing them but I have never heard of anyone doing so with Naim. It just seems de rigeur to replace them after X years, just in case. I have done so and those boxes always seem to sound clearer somehow. Whether that is because of newer and different caps, or because of my expectation bias I couldn’t say. I do have two 62/140 combinations, one is serviced the other is not. I challenge anyone to hear the difference.
The NAC 32.5 had been serviced 3-4 years beforehand.
Never compared serviced to unserviced Nait side by side.
I would try the Nait,before sending it for service.
