The new NAIT 50 Limited Edition

That might have been the case but from customer point of view it was showing as poor delivery management and control (a company who is using outsourced resources is still accountable for the final outcome).

However, since I liked the products I did receive this hiccup did not prevent me to buy other items later. I just see that in this case there is a potential danger that the dealers will sell more than 1973 units and some customers come out of this with empty hands. Therefore my original comment let’s see…

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@osprey my dealer has an allocation of Nait 50s set by Naim, the dealer sells up to that number so when I placed my order they knew they had one to sell.

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Hopefully all ok this time though :crossed_fingers:

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N-Sats were built in-house at the Naim factory. The drive units though were outsourced.

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I collected the nait 50 today. While there, we hooked it up with rega Apollo cd player and the new £4000+ epos es14 speakers (developer by Karl Heinz Fink now he owns epos).
Plenty of grunt!
It’s home now but in the box.
Nothing extra in the box other than mains cables, manual (printed!) and the speaker plugs in the back of the amp.
Serial number ending 001 :wink:
First one to arrive in Winchester. The next one Andy wants to keep.
Spent hour and a half there catching up etc.
Andy owns what was once Julian Vereker’s phonosophie turntable.
He has a few old bits in his collection:

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If consensus is many dealers want to keep one Nait 50, no surprise they will be sold-out or already are, even at the very high retail price.

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That’s quite a collection - Olive in the distance - CB closer - even a few “Bolt down” if that is the correct term - almost as old as I am - going to have to curb my excitement until August - but hey “everything comes to he who waits!”

:+1:

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We are wired up and running.

Roon > pi with hat > dac v1 > nait 50 > totem dreamcatchers.

It doesn’t require much on the volume control!

My speaker cable plug diy soldering is pretty bad …… to be replaced. But hey it’s been bad for quite a while in situ with uq2/nap100!

The buttons very satisfying clunk, the volume control is smoooooth.

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I have a Uniti Qute that I use for both DAC and internet radio ,I could see the N50 , the UQ and a half box CD transport … in a vertical setting

Julians phonosophie turntable… :smiling_face_with_three_hearts::smiling_face_with_three_hearts::smiling_face_with_three_hearts:

Very quick mod / proof of concept:

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I think the transistors used are the same which are used from 5i thru SN3 i.e. Sanken 3519/1386.

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What about the n-Sat cabinets Richard ?

I assume also outsourced ? I have the piano blacks

Yes, the cabinets were outsourced. Naim didn’t make the cabinets for any of their speakers. That was done by specialist speaker cabinet makers.

That leaves the crossover, which (to build, not to design) is quite simple compared to the cabinet and drivers. So is it fair to say they were more assembled than built in-house?

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Arguing over semantics, but whatever works best for you…

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Sound Org tables!! I have one in my garage, can’t bear to get rid of it.

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And I think that TomTom Audio have the prototype NAP 500.

Only one!! I have two and a wall shelf. The tables have been repurposed, the shelf is currently wrapped in clingfilm.

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The Nait 50 uses a quasi-complementary output stage (only uses NPN transistors), this is like the classic range amplifiers but with two Sanken 2SC3519Y per channel instead of NA009N.

…many other transistors in there too!
(no integrated circuits in the signal path)

Cheers
Steve

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