With the LP12 development, over time (many years!) materials, engineering have improved adding to the LP12 end game turntable.
Naim took all of this and produced their variant, you don’t reinvent the wheel.
We hew it from the black aluminium mine round the back of the factory 
But seriously - yes, it’s a set colour code.
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have a date from my dealer when Jason demo the Solstice
I am really looking forward to hearing the deck will be with NAIM electronics and Titan T808’s
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Thanks Clare.
Would that be the Classic RAL 9005 (Jet Black) or god forbid the hideous RAL 9017 (Traffic Black), which I presume is reference to soot from exhaust pipes, for example?
Or is the colour code not a RAL code but some other code system?
Or is it a secret? 
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More importantly, what’s the colour standard for Olive. Or is that green/brown/ Olive!
Its well know that the standard for Naim Olive is… no standard…!
NaimLore has it, I believe, that only one person knew what the colour was. When this person left Naim’s supplier, the colour was ‘lost’. The re-invention of the colour Naim Olive is what caused the odd variations which occurred thereafter, before a New Olive was defined & standardised.
(PS. Only 2 of my 4 Olive units, currently in use, are the same colour…! The other 2 are different - and different from each other…!)
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Yeah, we’re not sharing the details of ‘Naim black’ here for anyone else to use 
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Hmmm, interesting!
Folklore, says that in days gone by, Olives were pressed under foot by a virgin, but later as this practice was frowned upon, machine pressing became the norm and the current Olive tone is touched up post pressing.
I’ve seen Naim’s Olive groves out the back there.
Don’t think any of my four Olives are the same colour! The two 72s are the closest despite being made 7 years ? apart.
Through HC and 140 are a lot more brown.
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Just so long as it’s inky black…
(Apologies) BF
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Regarding the LP12, Linn always adopt a policy of improving many products over time when possible. As Bart says “organically” and there has been a lot of time since the first LP12! The LP12 will be celebrating it’s 50th birthday in the nest couple of years. Naim also adopt a policy of improving products over time and I hope HQ will do something for the 250 when the time comes… obviously in a few more years
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I was told that when the formulation was lost what they would do was to take a sample from the previous batch and match as close as possible to that. After a while the shade inevitably changed.
FWIW, Naim service eventually offered a fascia matching service so you could have everything matched colour-wise.
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Now that could be very interesting. Something to go with that new 372 
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How is that then? Surely if you connect a Superline to a power supply with DR fitted then it uses DR? If so then it it’s a bit disingenuous to suggest it is the first. After all, it’s not like a Superline can be used without a power supply.
Mr Sircom doesn’t compare it to anything and the majority of the report (it’s not really a review) is history and context. Once you remove all the padding it’s about a paragraph of information and could have been written from reading a press release. Reading between the lines I get the impression it’s ‘okay’, not bad but nothing special either.
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That depends on the cables you connect to it.
My 82 (new 2001) & one of my HiCaps (rebuilt 1999) are well matched. The other HiCap (new 1990) and my 140 (new 1992) are… something else…!!
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When we post the full review everyone will see that’s a total misrepresentation of the piece, as this post-review article (free to read) clearly indicates:
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