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Possible to get a photo of the ceiling ESL fruitbat pair? I’m curious how they ‘hang’, cant picture it in my ( admittedly limited) imagination!
Yes, Stevie, they hang down. The silly little original feet have been removed, so that the bottom of the black-painted grilles are touching the aluminium plates, which are screwed into the ceiling - it’s all much simpler than it sounds.
It does all make a very pleasing racket. Manfred Stein, MD of QUAD in Germany who made the ESLs for me, told me that he had never heard his own speakers sound so good. But he had never heard them on the end of Naim electronics before.
That is probably true, although it would make no difference. The speaker is made of three panels which stretch the vertical length of the speaker - treble in the middle, flanked by bass/midrange panels on either side.
Re: Review samples I’ve already asked as I was very keen to pit the new Nait against my (just) factory serviced original Nait 1 for Soundstage Ultra. Naim loved the idea but I’ve since been informed by their PR that no review samples are available.
So I suspect sadly the only way to gain an impression will be at shows or dealers - or by buying one!
A pity as I reckon with 36 years of living with a Nait 1 and a lifelong passion for Naim I reckon I could have written a fantastically entertaining piece.
Hi Badlyread - that’s a nice idea actually. I’m South of Guildford near Haslemere if that’s close to anyone. I’ve even still got my original Mk2 SBL’s here and of course my SCM40’s too. The SBL’s would have been a fun thing to pull in for a test.
Ah, the Devil’s Bowl! (the tunnel is much quicker). I used to live in Southampton and so you could have borrowed mine but I’m now on the Devon/Cornwall border. Hopefully someone will be in the area for you to have a listen.
FWIW I’ve never had good results with vintage Tannoys and Naim, never understood why, something like old Radford and Leak were just fine.
Don’t want valves anymore though.
I’d love to compare with my Aethos which is a peach.
With such limited made products, I’ve always wondered if there’s a limit to how many pieces dealers can order.
When Technics released their Limited MK7L (12.000 made) I figured 32-35 only could reach my country, my dealer got two or three of them.
Sure Technics have a large dealer network.
With only 1973 made Nait 50, I wonder if Naim dealer network can get even one ?