I find that the 140 and 250 behave in this way, always reactive to show their strength, always quick to react. Others like 160 or 300 are more on the “Quiet Force” team
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These adverts are marketing genius in my view, everything is right about them. They make me smile, the products look cool, the films are evocative and cool, the comments are brilliant. I’m already happy I have a 32.5 and I love it even more after seeing this advert
naim bring back the clever unique marketing. This in vogue, House and Garden, the Telegraph anywhere has my interest
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HOW IS THIS POSSIBLE???
I just fired up the Nait 1. How can this little box produce this level of engagement. It’s so good, I don’t wanna switch it off.
I had no intention of ever really using it, I plugged it in to test the built in phono stage as I’m having issues with my record player set up. I thought I’d troubleshoot the problem. Annoyingly the rca plugs from my tonearm cable do not fit into the inset rca sockets in the Nait 1.
So I thought let me just plug my 13k DAC into it for shits n giggles. Mind blown🤯.
This thing doesn’t need a service.
What it does need though is a podium. wow!
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Was also in wow when I checked mine (both 1 and 2 cb).
You have to test a nait 50 - you would not believe !
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Apologies if already posted, but someone put this up… and, would you look at that: lock-ring DINs on a bolt-down case!!!
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I used to lust after those very models of amps as a schoolboy in Edinburgh, looking in the shop window of Russ Andrews’ original shop just down from George Street.
Although I did wonder how something that looked as if it had been cobbled together on someone’s kitchen table could be so much more expensive than the nicely presented QUAD amplifiers of the time!
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Yes, I’ve seen this - I have the original magazine from which the scans were taken. At the time the NAC12 was undergoing a lot of development. IIRC at the time of the review the single board layout had just given way to the daughter boards, so I guess there was much else that was being tried out.
p.s. @TimD out of respect for copyright, please don’t post scans of copyrighted material such as reviews, unless authorised by Naim. Thanks.
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Hello,
I picked up a nac32 bolt down today with a grainy finish a bit like the next generation of classic cb’s
Its serial number is 0716
The paintwork is obviously professionally done and extremely meticulous, which leads me to believe that it must be original.
What do you think?
Thank you
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The blurb suggests that this serial number is a 1982 build.
Does anyone on the Forum have a lower SN component, I wonder?
The paintwork looks immaculate. I suppose that it might have had a re-spray, done by a professional, since 1982.
The 32bd stopped in 1980.
It seems to me that at that time each type of device had its own list of serial numbers.
I have another 32bd with the number 0032 and a third with the number 0260.
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I’ve seen an early bolt down NAC32 at the factory with a textured painted lid, so it might well be original.
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The Bolt-down NAC32 was changed to extruded style in 1980. Naim used a different system of numbering prior to 1982.
The CB’s always look good. Not as good my Olives, but then I don’t have any CB now - otherwise I might say something else 
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No pictures…?
Try again maybe…?
Is that a 250?