New Naim Audio Website

I tried it very briefly with a screen reader.

The product pages start with images, rather than descriptions. You have to navigate the reader focus past three or four images before hitting a description that starts describing the product.

The useful resources are right at the bottom of the main page, so it’s a long voyage of discovery with the screen reader until you hit them. Could they be linked off the main drop down menu? [edit, sorry! The help option is on the main menu]

Typo also: resources not ressources

The top central logo is very small and weak looking and, like HH, I find the frantic and superficial imagery below frankly unnecessary. Can’t ‘Our Story’ be a click option somewhere less intrusive? The capitalised, double stacked and badly spaced horizontal ‘Index’ is graphically untidy.

Couldn’t we just go straight to the nice black and white images and horizontal index below the logo. Classier and less flashy.

So, lose the ugly top index, strengthen the logo and simplify.

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Cookies and Privacy Management … … …

"When connecting to the Sites the first time, you will need to tick the box “I accept the Sites’ Terms of Use and Personal Data Protection Policy and Cookie Policy”.

You can then manage your consent preferences via the “Cookie management” section at the bottom of the Site’s web page.”

Erm, nope … … … This section seems only to explain the legal side of cookies as used on the website, rather than allow the user to choose preferences.

This is on Safari on a MacBook, so it may well be fine for Windows users, but speaking as someone who get’s cheesed off having to click through endless “go away” buttons, I’d like this sorting before I comment on the design, cleverness or quality of information presented on the shiny new site.

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I agree with @HappyListener - the navigation is bizarre. For example, starting on the DC1 cable page - it says developed alongside the reference DAC. I don’t remember seeing a reference DAC mentioned in the product pages. So I click on Sources. It mentions CD Player, Network Music Player and HDD Music Server. Maybe there’s more below? So I try to scroll down using finger, arrow key or scroll bar - and I just get bumped straight back to the DC1 page. There are other examples of similar behaviour. This is Firefox on Windows 10.

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The dealer search function is very wayward, even bizarre IMHO.

@Richard.Dane = I sincerely hope this isn’t ‘live’, as it’s far more confusing than helpful IMHO.

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Erm… It is… Fully published on the www. So really it cannot be said to be Work In Progress.

Not a Beta Version.

One is a network player, while one is a streamer.

As are these two.

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What’s with the Universe thing? Has Naim gone intergalactic?

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Weird…

Its clearly called the CD 555PS, and not the NAPS 555.

See back panel picture.

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Well, there are no Naim dealers in that map area ……

Edit: My home turf :grinning:.

The NSC222 product page lists 284 kHz in the text description (at “Highly Versatile”). At least in English and German.
Specifications are correct (384 kHz).

I’m surprised the Nait 50 is listed as a standard integrated I thought it was limited edition.
All the flashy graphics are cheap and distracting.
Hell we can’t even have a gif on the forum then we get bombarded with that.
Oh my head. :face_with_head_bandage:

The “Our Solutions” part of the Assistance section does not seem to do anything when I select one of the options (on Android/Chrome)

Clicking “Uniti” above highlights the box, but nothing happens.

I find it very disappointing - and sad - that there are so many apparent errors in the new Naim Audio website, as it is currently. I do not believe it should have been published in its present form. It reflects very poorly on Naim, in my view.

The Naim Forum should not be used as a resource to de-bug a poor website.

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I’ve just cottoned on what’s happening with the weird navigation. Starting on any page - if you click on Connected Speakers, Streaming Amplifiers or Integrated Solutions - you actually go to one of those pages. But if, instead, you click on Sources, Separates or Accessories - you don’t leave the page you’re on. Instead a new floating bar thing appears on top of the page. If you don’t select something from that bar, any other action removes it and you’re back where you started. Very confusing.

Not for me e.g. under Accessories, I get the load-up (of Acc’s), then any attempt to scroll generates the previously viewed page!

Nova specifications show " * Other entries : HDMI Earc". Pretty sure, it’s just “ARC” (not “eARC”).

Seems the specification parts are filled from some database, which is also used for the product comparison. I also see mixes of English and German (on the English pages), with a pinch of French (for CD ripping).
Could be gaps in the DB or wrong queries or some such.

our partners returns to main menu checked my dealer hi-fi gear hereford is listed with a very old address i also hate the flashing lights on the home page video nac a5 page repeats the same text some means to sort by series would be a help.

Just had a quick look at the German version of the website:
There are currently no dealers listed for Germany. The translations seem to be inconsistent across the site: e.g. „Wireless - Musiksysteme“ in the top menu vs „Angeschlossene Lautsprecher“ further down the site. in general, the translation seems a bit clumsy and be done via an automated translation system. Not an ideal look for the brand in my view.

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