Roy George recognised by WHF mag

What Hi-Fi? Awards 2024 Special Award winners

At the event we also revealed the winners for our special categories.

Here industry veteran and retired Naim technical director, Roy George was presented with our prestigious Outstanding Contribution Award, for his part in designing some of the most iconic hi-fi products we have had the pleasure to review since he joined the company in 1985.

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Anyone else going to admit they thought this was Boy George?

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He defined an era at Naim with the musical presentation which he even managed to get the team to extend to Muso and car systems……a great loss imo.

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Clare Newsome return ?

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Clare is at Little Red Rooster PR, who still do some work for Focal & Naim AFAIK.

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Really pleased to see Roy honoured in this way by What Hifi Magazine. Very well deserved indeed.

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I think she has left, and is now a private consultant, according to linkdin?

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Based on what I have seen/read, not someone I would ever engage or recommend. I am certainly not convinced she did anything beneficial for Naim.

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Yes.

Everything been going swimmingly since she left. :grin:

I personally miss her enthusiasm, which I actually thought was genuine.

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Happy for Roy. A legend for Naim and the industry.

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This Is really well deserved

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What HiFi were also very complimentary about the Nait XS3

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How lucky she is then…:smirk:

Yes, @Innocent_Bystander is known to be a very severe boss.

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My preferred audio engineer with my preferred speaker…

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Clearly a man ahead of his time with the Aussie Hipster look 2024…! :rofl:

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Indeed!