Amazing file you’ve pulled together there @sihctr.
Oh how I would have loved this reference document when I started my Naim journey at the end of the noughties - would have really helped my confusion trying to understand the different products and styles (ie. chrome bumper, olive, etc) of the past!
But now I really like being able to see the chronology of product introductions and the relative pricing levels.
Fascinating stuff, many thanks for pulling this together!
Cool stuff! NAP500 was first introduced here and it was the last appearance for several Olive components. It’s especially useful to have the lists for such transition periods.
I started this as an exercise to understand how the old NAC models were related and what was the hierarchy, as the naming convention for sure didn’t help. The pricing on the other hand is a useful guide.
One more reason is to visualise the global trends of new model introductions and hopefully be able to predict when new goodies might show up. The pricing information gives some hints when some items are about to be discontinued, as it happened this year with DAC-V1, NAP 100 and NAC-n272.
Well it’s been almost 40(!) years since then…
By the way, I compared the pricelist that you provided with the one I had already found and I observed that yours includes the NAT301. In the one I have NACA4 is listed instead at this line. Both state April 1981. Intriguing!
@Arthur-Lee As my iBL’s are pictured in that Product Guide leaflet you posted, I thought I would post this brochure/picture of them, as I am currently giving them a clean.
It was great to See Robert Ritchie Hi-Fi on the old list. I discovered them in 1983 and became friends. Robert has now retired but still lives near the shop, Robbie, his son, has taken up the mantle and a still runs the business with the same great ethos.
Here was my system on a slide developed in Feb 1985. The Kans were now on the Mk2 version of the stands, the 42 had not yet had 42.5 upgrade. My afromosia plinth had been swapped for black ash one fitted with prototype corner braces and I was running an amazing Asak-T Cartridge. All supplied by Robert Ritchie in Montrose. All crammed into a small room that was my student digs.