So I’ve finally managed to secure a purchase of the original Nait (Red led) and patina on lettering 
. I’ll be collecting the unit the moment I get time off work over the next few weeks.
What I would like to know is if the case size is the same as the classic series hicap?
The height and width are the same but the depth (length front to back) of the NAIT is shorter than the HICAP.
That helps. Thank you
Exactly like my first ’ 84 42/110. Also the '86 HC was red. Then the '88 one was green.
The NAIT and NAIT2 had a cover sleeve with a length/depth of 278mm.
The first NAC42 and NAP110 from '79 had a cover sleeve with a length/depth of 286mm - the so-called “short case” or “short chassis” version. It was then increased a year later to 300mm and remained that way ever since for the NAP110, 140, 90, 90/2, HICAP, NAXO, SNAXO etc…
The piece of kit with the shortest regular sized extruded cover sleeve was the revised SNAPS from 1980. I can’t recall now the dimension off the top of my head. I’ll have to dig out the box and measure one tomorrow.
Thanks @Richard.Dane that information is very helpful.
I just picked up the Nait.
It was demonstrated to me on Quad ESL 57s. Surprisingly good demo. I’ve never had a good experience with e-stats but this was a fun listen.
Very nice! Hope you enjoy it.
Is the boat capsizing?
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…
