Will we see some new products this autumn?
Unless we are including random focal stuff like new car speakers no I’m not expecting anything new anytime soon. When we do eventually get something I’m guessing it will be either a new sn4 or new 500 series both of which seem to be a while out. Naim put out a ton of stuff relatively recently and doesn’t make new products often.
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Yes
How old is the SN3?
I believe the SN3 was released 5 or 6 years ago.
2019 specifically but I imagine designing it’s successor is complicated. It has to be better than the sn3 otherwise why bother but at the same time if it gets close to 282/hcdr/250dr territory it could run the risk of cannibalising 200 series sales. There is also where to price it compared to other products to consider. Technically the xs and sn integrated amps are the next step after uniti series make them too expensive and people may just go second hand or another brand rega for example. I’m sure there are people doing cost benefit analysis on it all.
I still think the 200 series is a lot of money for entry level separates and we could do with a 100 series but that would only complicate things more regarding pricing everything. It may be that naim see the most money from the more mass market products (muso, uniti series etc) and higher end (300 series, 500, statement) and are reducing their more in the middle products where there is a lot of competition who knows?
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The white LED version of the SN3 should have been introduced in August, so,it looks like the SN3 could be around for a while yet.
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I could see a new product coming with Class D
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A CD 
transport, even if it is the basic player with a digital output
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A few proucts I’d like to see:
– A digital source component that’s an aesthetic match with the NAIT 50.
– A 200/300 series CD transport
– A matching amplifier for the Naim Atom Headphone Edition
– A new half-width 100 Series consisting of (1) CD transport/ripper/server, (2) a DAC/Streamer, (3) an all-analog preamplifier with phono stage and headphone output, and (4) a stereo power amplifier.
– A wireless bookshelf speaker (Focal/Naim co-design) designed to compete with the KEF LS50 II, Bowers & Wilkins Foundation Duo and Sonus Faber Duetto.
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I think an interesting option for the SN4 would be to make it kinda 10k super-integrated with a great phono and dac.
^^^^^^^^
This!
Would solve our office system quandary. SuperUniti replaced with SN4!
The obvious current alternate is SN3 with ND5XS2.
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The SN3/XS3 (from memory) were both introduced to the market in the summer of 2019.
See I wouldn’t want an all in one there are too many products you can’t use your own dac with and it just seems an insane jump when the sn3 is like 4299 to 10k at that point I think they would be different products rather than a replacement. But I can certainly see that others would want a super integrated. I suppose that’s another option naim are probably considering the viability of.
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SN5 when it comes but I would have thought an integrated in completely new styling must happen not just SN3 with a white logo. I’ve said this before but I would have liked a UnitiCore 2 which could also act as a CD player but too late now I’ve gone NAS.
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The Core is the naim product which they seem least interested in.
Poor software, brilliant hardware.
It has a digital out so could easily be a transport.
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But how would the drive stand up to intense use? As a ripper it only has to run once for each CD, as a player it would get a lot more wear.
I would have thought any consumer CD drive has a pretty long MTBF nowadays.
But reading the threads on this forum about failing Audiolab transports, perhaps not!
Our old UnitiServe is coping well as both ripper and transport in the office (running Ubuntu). If the transport fails I’ll buy another for a few quid off Amazon - they aren’t naim components after all.
I have long guessed a 100 range entry level series is on the test bench.
The more time passes by the less I believe it materialize.
It will simply be too expensive looking at current cheapest Nait is far too expensive for what you get.
I do see a market for Ultra SuperNait but then this will compete with their separates.
Well maybe they have some China made class D Muso amps on bench, priced to sell ?
Who knows.
Rega will be a tough competition with their current excellent amp range, nothing Class D there, no China either.
Fact is I didn’t see Nova PE happen, maybe Naim/Focal focus is on the higher priced niche.
Maybe they are just putting the Company up for sale ?
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I notice that the Naim website has a page called “steaming pre-amplifiers”. Note the use of the plural. The only product listed is the NSC 222. Maybe there will be a new 100 series and maybe that will include a streaming pre-amp and, presumably, a power amp to go with it.
Could streaming pre-amp and power amp become the preferred two box solution, instead of streamer and integrated amp? Not today, but maybe one day.
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