I know I will be discontinued one day. But have I to announce it yet?
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Nait 5si and CD5si RIP 
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I don’t understand your comment. Can you elaborate? Thanks.
I am well past my “use by” date. 
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A Richard post continuing
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Are mechs available for you ?
In practice aren’t the CIs the new entry level separates?
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I had my eyeballs serviced twenty years ago and new lenses fitted………I wonder if they do upgrades………
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Without notifying me Richard (as the OP?)
Is that normal practise please , just interested to know
Naim recommends 10 - 15 years. Time to go to Salisbury.
Seriously, I didn’t knew that eyeballs can be treated. But now we will go too far out of topic.
It depends. In this case a message is probably appropriate and I’m sorry it hasn’t been sent out yet (I shall do so now) - I usually try to get messages out as quickly as possible but it has been a typical friday, and a very busy day today, so just now catching up.
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If you want a vision of Naim’s long-term future, look no further than the Focal Diva Utopia.
The continued shrinkage of the Naim product range suggests (at least to me) that separate Naim electronics will increasingly become a sideline.
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But until recently, they tended to be replaced.
They may well do
Often, but not always. I can think of plenty of Naim items that were discontinued and not immediately replaced (or replaced at all). Just a handful off the top of my head; NAB300, NAP6-50, IXO, SNAXO, Headline2, Superline, AV1, AV2, DVD5, N-Vi, NAPV175, NAPV145, DAC-V1, DAC, NAP100, NAT01, NAT02, NAT05xs, not to mention the entire speaker line etc..
Ironically even the original CD5i and NAIT 5i were not actually replacements for the original CD5 and NAIT 5. The original CD5 and NAIT 5 weren’t properly replaced until the arrival of the NAIT XS and CD5X - a 6 year gap in the case of the NAIT.
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The Classic series was a lifestyle product (as all hi-fi is) - just for a different lifestyle.
The times they are a changing, as they always have and always will.
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If it is a term used by Naim themselves it is a strange misuse of the phrase end of life : End of life is when the products themselves die and are no longer repairable. This is simply end of production, and people buying even the last ones made should reasonably be able to expect many years’ trouble-free operation, at least 10 years even in the case of the CDP.
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Hence my use of the phrase “tended to be”.
Not sure the Diva is a great success. And in France, maybe 2 shops sell it ( Focal powered by Naim only).
Naim products are getting like D-day veterans
Eventually there will be none left
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