Answers might differ dependent on the range, but currently I’d go for the Uniti Nova which is just an excellent all-rounder and more than many people would ever want/need - great streamer with excellent input selection, pre and power sections in one box. Add a Powerline…
The Star and Atom would also be good contenders, especially with the Star’s additional CD ripping capability.
No phono input on any but I suspect most using a turntable might already have a dedicated phono pre-amp.
It has to be a pre amp IMO. So fundamental in a Naim set up.
£ per £ I’d go with the 32.5 when powered by a Hicap. Back in the day it was relatively inexpensive and allowed my LP12/ Ittock/ Karma to thrill on many occasions.
Best ever product irrespective of price for me is the S1
Definitely the NAC 72 for me.
Nat 05.
Hi Naim olive 250 hands down, still the best but needs service.
Nait 2 Olive.
Please don’t mention the CB version with its tractor tyre style control knobs.
Here is a dreadful admission, I have a Nait 2 sitting on a shelf in my bedroom, unattached to anything that might make it produce music. t just gives me comfort to look at it, and I switch it on occasionally just to see the green glow of its lights.
Two products come to mind to me.
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CDS / CDPS
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The NAT 01 makes every other front end look stupid for the money 
From my experience with my recently-acquired NDX 2, I would have to agree with you, Mike.
At c£800 I thought the Naim Nait 5si improved any basic system enormously. Completely unfussy, given a half way decent input and speakers it just delivered wonderful music.
Naim Nait 1.
At £225, which is what I paid for it new in 1986, it sounds like a bargain, although at the time I found it quite a stretch. It’s been serviced twice since, once by Naim Audio and just last month by Class A Audio. For something that’s given 35 years of enjoyment, I consider that to represent an absolute bargain. Even now I can be listening to it and sometimes feel it gives a more natural sound than the 500 series kit downstairs.
I still think the NAT01 is Naim Audio’s best ever source component.
I agree especially given what the Nait 1 has led to g a long product line of successful Naits and Supernaits.
Hello I fully understand the aesthetics of the olive series rocks my boat, I have recently re purchased a full naim/linn system I originally owned 25 years ago and foolishly got rid of it, now back in situ and alls good in the world, and I to like to look at the system just powered up, sad maybe but who cares.
Have to agree with you on the NAC552. My close second is the NAP300.
CDS3 player. obviously.
I still have a recently NAIM serviced NAC 42.5, SNAPS and NAC 110 and as I listen to them all right now, through Dynaudio S40s, it still gives immense joy.
I’m equally sad. I love the acid green lit lettering against the olive background and the occasional bit of scarlet font!
I also bought my Nait 1 in 1986 (but for £250) and though it mostly resides in the cupboard these days, when hooked up to the SBLs it sounds improbably musical. I’d want it to go to a good home, or maybe one day I’ll downsize and use it. At university one of my college friends skipped meals and beers to get one, which was a huge sacrifice and we’d wind him up about the 13W but he had it on all the time and I suppose it became the ‘gateway drug’ to my own upgrade addiction. So from naim’s perspective as a sales driver it probably is pound for pound their best product!