The Naim New Classic range - Part 1

Who knows, it’s all speculation until it’s experienced.

:see_no_evil::see_no_evil::see_no_evil: I’m done for a while. Your turn :smile::+1:

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Yes maybe, but I would prefer to move over completely to the new series after proper home demos rather than mix and try to match. Probably as Naim intended really….

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No one’s stopping you, Naim’s intent notwithstanding. I’ll be hanging on to my 555 until I determine it’s not the best option for a PS which will be some time since I don’t have a dealer local. I’m more likely to swap out the 250 DR for the 250NC as my first step though.

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Thought you said you were heading down another route - Auralic, EAR and living voice OBX. No?

I’m interesting to see how the NSS333/555PS compares with my NDX2/555PS, the ND555 is well out of reach for me. Though for the same money, a better TT…

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I’m guessing the 333 will be on the plus side of 10000 GBP being a 3 serie and if so up against a used ND555.

The Munich high-end show is 18 - 20 May, which is when the big launch is meant to be. So Friday the 19th for us, being ahead of those northern folk.

And then the PS at 5,000 GBP>

I have what I have. Living voice will not work optimally with my solid state amps. For other reasons that I will not go into here, I will not try living voice speakers at my home, but very much liked them with the EAR amps. The amps I have will stay, because I would effectively throw them away if I change. I just serviced them in 2021 so not a good idea. So what’s left, the streaming solution, which I dabbled in with the Auralic Altair G1 which i like. So it could go in my second system. The main system will then (as I said not long ago) the new 300 series streamer plus NPX300 or I will entertain an Auralic Aries G2 and Vega G2.

FWIW I like my NC gear but would never buy Naim again. Enjoy.

That’s what it’s all about. I did like my 3 hour encounter with the new classic series. The NPX300 really improves the source/preamp. A very clear upgrade.

I try to get the best I can without junking what I have already and without being continuously on the upgrade treadmill which a lot of times makes us lose sight of the primary objective to enjoy good music. Adding things when it makes sense is how I try to approach upgrades now. It’s getting late in the day to change my amps and I think the SL2 is a great speaker. I think a new streamer upgrade for me is quite likely and of course seeing to a much neglected LP12 will not be cheap with a new cartridge to replace the aging Akiva

Oh, no 333 then so… I could get a new RP10 for half of that…

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No think I was corrected it’s the 18th, the 19th here.

Well we’ve now had the teaser on naim website , so just waiting on more detail on 19th

New prices here will be scary :rage::rage:

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I couldn’t see a teaser I am only using my phone.

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There is a new classic section where it talks about the 200 series

Then now follows on with couple of sentences re 300 series

The teaser video is on the Naim Facebook page. It really just shows the same casing and volume control as the NSC222, so presumably the NAC332.

I don’t have access the Facebook but I’ve just read it on their site. New streamer, pre am and power amp. You’ll probably want the NPX300 for the streamer and more than likely one for the pre amp. That’ll be 80k plus here and out of reach for about 97% of the population.

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