New from Naim – Solstice Special Edition turntable

Sneaky preview of the new Naim ‘Monolith’ wall shelf in prototype form

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I reckon they should offer a wall shelf called the Horizon

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Statement level snap-crackle-‘n-pop ?

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It’s 25.4kg (turntable weight). And no more than 500 units of the package, that’s for sure.

It doesn’t. People will have bought it, unheard, on faith as it’s a limited edition. Products based on this, I’m sure we’ll see, but there’s no way Naim will just allow others to buy the exact same thing. Interesting will be to see how much change Naim thinks is necessary. Just the logo colour ( :wink:), or a different product with “trickle down” technology.

From which you have to subtract the development costs, the component costs, assembly costs, dealer margins, shipping costs etc. So gross sales may be £8M but net profit will be a lot lower than that.

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Well done Naim, this is fantastic news. Great to see you’re supporting the love of music. Hope it does well, which I have very little doubt.

I’ve invested heavily in my beautiful LP12/Aro, so I’m not sure where that leaves me at the moment. If I had the space, I’d buy one today no problem. Shame it’s a ltd edition package, as I’m sure they’ll all go before I hear one or decide to have 2 decks.

Wish you all the best.

Love the release date.

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Not to mention VAT…

One sixth will go in VAT for a start… (if all were sold in the uk, which they won’t be

Huge clue in the “Special Edition” part of the launch name. Easily allows for other versions of the Solstice system. Solstice 200, 500, Signature etc…

It looks very interesting. I hope to have the opportunity to hear it at @Cymbiosis, where hopefully it’ll be possible to compare with a Klimax LP12 or even a Stiletto version.

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Exactly. And you don’t do all this spending for 2 years on 500 pcs without a plan scaling it. So I assume it’s not far gone for a lower priced no qty limitation table to match say SN3 and other products in the range and this is just a statement for them to say “we used this work from Solstice ltd edition” to spill over added value to the low/mid range and then the platter is thinner, compromises to the arm, no Burndy connection, cheaper cartridge etc. Anything else would be extremely confusing and if so look more like private interests rather than making business.

Sprung suspension (looks a bit like the AR T-shaped subchassis in the pic) or mass-loaded?

REALLY like the new design language, and very much look forward to that being applied to other Naim products.

Hopefully Naim would release a more entry level version of the TT. Any chance of that? @Naim.Marketing

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That, and the labeling as “Power Supply Input” would be strange if it was also a signal output.

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We never say never here at Naim - but as it’s taken us almost 50 years to announce our first turntable, we’re not rushing to launch anything else yet!

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There is a decoupling system (three springs for the platter/arm bridge) machined into the plinth, which consists of 47 wood layers skinned with metal (aluminium on top; steel underneath) to create an extremely low-resonance structure.

The plinth features an island between the platter bearing and arm to keep these components critically aligned one to the other. A three-arm decoupling system isolates this island from the plinth, blocking any vibration caused by airborne sound or residual motor vibration.

When I asked Roy for a little more detail on this he said that while the most visibly “Naim” detail is the three-spring attachment for the platter to arm bridge, he meticulously went through honing all parts of the design, even down to every screw fixing - including part rigidity and material choices, component mechanical interfaces, motor control electronics pcb layout and choice of componentry, and so on - to follow the usual naim design philosophy of aggregating multiple small improvements. The central concept is to keep the platter/arm bridge as quiet as possible using several mechanical filters to isolate it from the multiple noise and vibration sources present in the turntable - very much in line with Naim’s core philosophy.

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Hmmm sounds like there are plans to sell the next one to your loyal customers on the colony on mars!

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There goes my money.

Would be interesting to hear the thoughts behind the choice of a high mass table (25.4kg) related to vibrations since Rega is on the other end of that meaning a light table absorbs less vibration than a high mass one (P8 4.8kg).

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