Naim Audio 1984 Price List!

Posted by: ken c on 31 July 2016

OMG, good old days! things were a lot simpler then!

enjoy...

ken

Posted on: 03 August 2016 by TOBYJUG
Peter Dinh posted:

In 1984, I got ~4,350 GBP grant for doing PhD.

Spent on Naim not books presumably.

Posted on: 03 August 2016 by Peter Dinh

I wish! Just afford to look at the Hifi Review or maybe  Fat Response (if I remember right). I wonder if some one here still remembers Chris Frankland, the Flat Response editor? Chris managed to get the gullible (me included at the time) interested in the LP12 + Naim.

Posted on: 03 August 2016 by hungryhalibut
Chris Dolan posted:
Pcd posted:

What would of been the price of the One and Only turntable back then i remembering purchasing one with a Ittok arm and I think it was an Asak cartridge? a

I am preetty sure that mine cost £340 (excluding arm and cartridge) in 1982 - and I got the Valhalla upgrade for the amount of the price difference which took it up to about £370 

My first LP12 was £249 in early 1979, when prices seemed to be going up every week. I saved up £115 to buy an A&R A60, went to the shop with the cash in my sweaty palm (no debit cards back then) only to find it had gone up to £140 that very week. As it was £115 or nothing, they sold it to me for that. 

Posted on: 03 August 2016 by Christopher_M
Hungryhalibut posted:

My first LP12....

Were there many?

Pretty cool to have a Linn and A60 as a fresher  :-)

C.

Posted on: 03 August 2016 by Pcd
HH, I can remember when going into Radfords in Bath to upgrade my C/B kit
to the new Olive stuff armed with a wedge of cash hoping to strike a cash
deal.

The salesmen said you can pay in cash,gold,diamonds or whatever that's the
list price what you pay, the only thing they could offer was 0% finance
over 12 months so I took them up on that offer and took the cash back home
and re stuffed the mattress.

Regards

Pete
Posted on: 04 August 2016 by joerand

Probably more comforting for you then that you didn't have to use diamonds or gold to re-stuff the mattress

Posted on: 04 August 2016 by ianrobertm

Back in the day...  My Linn LP12 cost me £340 (in 1981)  and my Naim 42/110 cost me £488 (in 1982). 

Posted on: 04 August 2016 by Allante93
Pcd posted:
Thanks, if I remember rightly the Ittock arm and Asak cartridge had just
been released when I puchased my LP12 all three added up to an eye watering
amount back then.

Wow! A Forum full of old farts! LOL....

By the time I purchased my LP 12, prices had sky rocketed!  The dealer suggested I try a less expensive cartridge, the Dog K9.

Along with a $500 USD Arm, Ittok.

Total Price in 1986, was $1486 USD

Sold it last year, on EBay, $1550 USD, going active ain't cheap. Besides, with me, it was more of a status symbol, and it matched my Briks. Didn't want to invest the 3K to bring it up to par, instead invested 1.7K USD for a 2008 Cdx2 Mk I.

I miss the good old days!

Allante93!