I understand your frustration with the Fw release, and I guess Bentley cars aren’t really your thing, but I can’t see how firmware issues are related to this is any way; R&D resource here would be minimal - all the hard work was done with the Mu-So2 a while back . There’s obviously some product design input and a some input from Marketing, but otherwise I can’t see how it would tax Salisbury resources to the detriment of anything else, especially in current circumstances.
1 Like
To each his own, one can use his money and resources for whatever purpose he pleases. Nothing wrong with that. Some love car like his first born, another love hifi. Still another love cameras or watches or cooking (and one can spend a lot on cookware!) I couldn’t afford or justify a Bentley but I love my Naim and couldn’t put a price on that. (My wife would.)
Some love aesthetics and others love the sound. It’s so nice the Uniti range has a beautiful screen and yet Naim respecting owners’ diverse preferences, made it possible to turn off the display. I have mine off and prefer to close my eyes when listening to music. But I am also the biggest hypocrite for buying my REL in white colour so it’s not stealthy black.
Again, to each his own and we should enjoy the fruit of our labor without shame and not boastfully.
6 Likes
I think cars with high emissions should be banned, simple as that. It’s nothing to do with the cost. It’s not about banning luxury, it’s about the environment, something some seem happy to ignore.
To me it’s wholly unnecessary to brand the muso ‘for Bentley’. Naim are a great company making great products and the muso should stand on its own merits without the fawning ‘for Bentley’ labelling.
2 Likes
The latest Bentley has an official mpg of 81mpg, and CO2 emissions of 79g/km. And if you’re in town or just pootling about on relatively short hops and able to just use electric power then the car itself has no emissions. How does that compare with your own car, HH?
6 Likes
I have replaced every single light bulb in the house and outside with LED light. So I hate to think how much power my Naim and REL are consuming amongst other components. Please forgive me… this is one of my guilty pleasures. 
1 Like
I don’t know about that, my old boss had a porshe hybrid with similar claims, he reckoned on average he got 25mpg, similar story for a lexus hybrid. If you are happy to tootle around in your bentley at 30mph then perhaps.
The bentley benteyga for instance will give you 17mpg once the battery kicks out.
As with any EV Hybrid, it will depend on how you drive, your average distances and also where. I guess it’s mainly to reduce emissions, particularly in areas where some of them are most harmful such as in towns and cities. As statistically most journeys are short and will potentially be within Electric range, it seems like it should help.
Would love to measure the emissions coming out of your old Camper! 
Peter
1 Like
Not as if building electronics is emission free
Sorry, but some of us can’t afford a 272, let alone anything in the 500 range. Personally, I’m perfectly happy with my $1700 V1 (used) and $450 BD160 (and Sonore devices for streaming). I do think it’s the height of hypocrisy when a member on here asks for a budget upgrade and some are always quick to go five figures or not at all, but then are put off about a Bentley partnership.
1 Like
I’m certainly not put off by the partnership, I just don’t see the need for the ‘for Bentley’ on the product. Naim is perfectly good by itself. I’m sure there are some lovely Bentley drivers but those I see are invariably 40 or 50 something men with shirts that are too tight and an overweening air of entitlement. Bullingdon types. A mu-so would be too cheap. So I’m happy to celebrate the fact that the tech enabled my three mu-sos but I’d never want to be associated with those Bullingdon boys.
Naim ownership is entirely different. It’s in your house and nobody knows about it. Driving a three tonne car that takes up two parking spaces and costs as much as a house is simply ostentation that’s not required.
The hybrid will do 31 miles on electric power but who ever charges a hybrid? They are just a joke - the battery adds huge weight and is a pretence at environmental considerations.
That said, there was an all electric Bentley at the VW showroom in Berlin that would be ok if it were half the size.
1 Like
Hi HH. Let’s face it, above statement is all your bag of preconceived perceptions. You once many moons ago also described Naim owners as baldy middle aged men with large bellies ( Yep, that one stuck in my mind God only knows why). Maybe in said description of the archetypes you forgot the word ‘sour’ !?
I have been doing track days for over 20 years (this should probably also be banned 
) and have met loads of people, who have worked hard to finally buy the car they have dreamed of for years for the simple reason, that they love driving it and owning it. No Bullingdons at all, just nice down to earth people with a passion and a dream.
Does that ring a bell with our relationship with our Naim gear and the musical pleasures that brings to the group of people here?? Peter
4 Likes
Anyway we all know that the modern Bentley driver is a footballist with questionable morals and a plastic enhanced wife.
I’ve certainly not met any of those types that you seem to have come across with “an overweening air of entitlement” amongst the wonderful people in the Bentley Drivers Club, who’s passion and enthusiasm for all things Bentley related was another interesting parallel with some of the members of this forum, I felt.
And then there’s our near neighbour who is really delightful and so is his lovely Bentley. It’s pictured here parked in another neighbour’s orchard with a little bit of Louby-lou just in the shot. He’s had it since he learned to drive, and the odd repainted panel here and there, it’s mostly original and still driven regularly.
6 Likes
Better than trying to be clever with Bentley, the marketing department should busy themselves with a new website. It’s been on the way for a long time now.
1 Like
I’ve no idea what a Bullingdon is. Is it something to do with the English class system? In NZ we have the “tall poppy syndrome”, which I expect is a similar thing.
Mr Google is your friend here.
That’s a classic and entirely different. I’m sure you know exactly the type to which I refer. Big car, fat wallet, small brain, sense of entitlement. Sadly they are all too common.
1 Like
The Bullingdon Club was/is a dining club for Oxford University students that had a few famous prime ministers and politicians as members. But you’re right to observe that it’s basically portrayed as an example of over privilege and a bastion of the English upper classes. Not a good look these days, or probably ever really. Hope that helps, but not my specialist subject.
1 Like
“Official”… Car companies will make extravagant claims concerning their cars… It’s not like that in the real world, and we all know it. Add to that the fact that building a Bentley will produce far higher CO2 emissions that that of HH’s car, which, if I remember rightly, is a small Audi.