# Naim serial numbers per year **URL:** \ **Category:** Lounge\ **Created:** [May 23, 2023, 1:40pm UTC](https://community.naimaudio.com/t/naim-serial-numbers-per-year/29240 "2023-05-23T13:40:59Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Ebor](https://community.naimaudio.com/user_avatar/community.naimaudio.com/ebor/32/5159_2.png) [@Ebor](https://community.naimaudio.com/u/Ebor)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2023, 1:40pm UTC](https://community.naimaudio.com/t/naim-serial-numbers-per-year/29240/1 "2023-05-23T13:40:59Z")
Just out of interest, I’ve taken the by-year list of serial numbers on the Naim website and plotted a (fairly crude) bar chart of how many serial numbers were issued in each calendar year, and it’s got some mildly interesting patterns: ![image](https://d2ikyu8xyuibjx.cloudfront.net/original/4X/b/0/4/b04c32bb06c618d1af2651f00e8955e02fcb27e9.png) Some thoughts/questions: - This is not a direct measure of turnover or even how busy the factory/company has been - one serial number can be for an S1 or a Nova, requiring very different amounts of time and money, and it takes no account of R&D work - but it does give a rough insight into how many pieces of kit have been churned out per year - Olive kit was introduced in the ?mid-90s, which perhaps explains the rise in 93-95, but any reason for the early-90s dip? Effects of the recession? - The introduction of the Classic black kit (early 2000s) doesn’t seem to have caused a big jump in a short space of time, as might be expected - Any reasons for the big jump in 2013 followed by such a big dip? - Nice to see numbers on the rise during the pandemic and record numbers in 2021! Mark ---
**Author:** ![QuickSticks](https://community.naimaudio.com/user_avatar/community.naimaudio.com/quicksticks/32/273160_2.png) [@QuickSticks](https://community.naimaudio.com/u/QuickSticks)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2023, 1:59pm UTC](https://community.naimaudio.com/t/naim-serial-numbers-per-year/29240/2 "2023-05-23T13:59:16Z")
When did MuSo come onto the market? Could that have been the 2013 spike, as it was being sold through a broader customer channel? Currys, Richer Sounds et al were early adopters, I’m just not sure if that fits the time line…🤔 ---
**Author:** ![Ebor](https://community.naimaudio.com/user_avatar/community.naimaudio.com/ebor/32/5159_2.png) [@Ebor](https://community.naimaudio.com/u/Ebor)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2023, 2:12pm UTC](https://community.naimaudio.com/t/naim-serial-numbers-per-year/29240/3 "2023-05-23T14:12:02Z")
I like your thinking, but wasn’t the Muso a bit later than that - 2015/6, perhaps? The first generation Uniti also might have caused a spike, but I think that was more like 2010ish and I’m not sure what came in between. The years fly by… ---
**Author:** ![robert\_h](https://community.naimaudio.com/user_avatar/community.naimaudio.com/robert_h/32/90_2.png) [@robert\_h](https://community.naimaudio.com/u/robert_h)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2023, 2:20pm UTC](https://community.naimaudio.com/t/naim-serial-numbers-per-year/29240/4 "2023-05-23T14:20:34Z")
All muso are made in China and have a different serial number range. So these aren’t included in the chart. Statement serial numbers are assigned in batches in advance so the back plates can be made; I don’t recall how many are assigned at once, but they are not all used up in a year. It probably doesn’t make a huge difference to the yearly numbers. The last serial number of 2020 is also 4000 higher than the first one of 2021. Could be a typo or some other oddity, but that makes the production for both years questionable. ---
**Author:** ![QuickSticks](https://community.naimaudio.com/user_avatar/community.naimaudio.com/quicksticks/32/273160_2.png) [@QuickSticks](https://community.naimaudio.com/u/QuickSticks)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2023, 2:21pm UTC](https://community.naimaudio.com/t/naim-serial-numbers-per-year/29240/5 "2023-05-23T14:21:17Z")
First edition MuSo was 2014 so would the production and registration of S/N’s have occurred in 2013…?🤷🏻‍♂️ ---
**Author:** ![Richard.Dane](https://community.naimaudio.com/user_avatar/community.naimaudio.com/richard.dane/32/125_2.png) [@Richard.Dane](https://community.naimaudio.com/u/Richard.Dane)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2023, 2:43pm UTC](https://community.naimaudio.com/t/naim-serial-numbers-per-year/29240/6 "2023-05-23T14:43:34Z")
> [@robert\_h](#): > > The last serial number of 2020 is also 4000 higher than the first one of 2021. Could be a typo or some other oddity, but that makes the production for both years questionable. I think that this was down to s/n allocations and part-builds that had to be held due to certain part delays from the component supply chain crisis. When I queried, Naim confirmed that the numbers were correct despite the apparent discrepancy. ---
**Author:** ![robert\_h](https://community.naimaudio.com/user_avatar/community.naimaudio.com/robert_h/32/90_2.png) [@robert\_h](https://community.naimaudio.com/u/robert_h)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2023, 2:51pm UTC](https://community.naimaudio.com/t/naim-serial-numbers-per-year/29240/7 "2023-05-23T14:51:45Z")
Or someone made a mess in efacs. Wasn’t me, I’d left already! ---
**Author:** ![system](https://d2ikyu8xyuibjx.cloudfront.net/original/1X/26b5e4ef7e37d3771c473a6a1f688186c20823ac.png) [@system](https://community.naimaudio.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2023, 2:52pm UTC](https://community.naimaudio.com/t/naim-serial-numbers-per-year/29240/8 "2023-07-22T14:52:17Z")
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