Two box NAP V145?

Posted by: rackkit on 26 August 2011

One for sale over on the Bay. According to the seller, it's a one-off factory special, comes with serial no etc, so seems valid with the 2nd box housing the PS ala NAP 300 style. Must have been an out-of-hours project? 

Posted on: 26 August 2011 by Phil Harris

Not likely to have been an "out of hours project" (although many of us here have heavily tweaked or modded bits of kit in our collections that were personal projects) as it has a serial number so it must have been a legitimate internal build. It's a little bit before my time here.

 

Phil

Posted on: 26 August 2011 by Richard Dane

Unless it was done by somebody outside the factory.  I've seen one or two "zapped" 300s and it wouldn't take too much to adapt a NAPV175 to operate from a working 300PS.

 

Have to admit, I don't ever recall such a thing being made at Naim while I was there, but who knows.  Worth a few questions I'd say, and ultimately I'd trust Naim's word over anybody elses as to whether it's a factory job or not.

 

The serial numbers should provide the answers.

Posted on: 26 August 2011 by Phil Harris

It has raised a few eyebrows here as I've just been speaking to a few people.

Posted on: 26 August 2011 by rackkit

I've got a standard 145, so it's not something i'd be interested in buying (I've enough boxes already!), just thought it would be worth a mention to you guys but without providing a link of course. 

Posted on: 26 August 2011 by Phil Harris

You can never have too many boxes ... I started out with three and now have (IIRC) nineteen.

 

Phil

Posted on: 26 August 2011 by rackkit
Originally Posted by Phil Harris:

You can never have too many boxes ... I started out with three and now have (IIRC) nineteen.

 

Phil

And i thought i was doing bad (good?) with 11! Ok, 4 of those are Rega boxes but you get the idea. 

Posted on: 27 August 2011 by DavidDever
Originally Posted by rackkit:

One for sale over on the Bay. According to the seller, it's a one-off factory special, comes with serial no etc, so seems valid with the 2nd box housing the PS ala NAP 300 style. Must have been an out-of-hours project? 

I'd hate to see the Fraim racks housing that self-build active system in the New Forest!

Posted on: 29 August 2011 by rackkit

Sold for £640!

 

Posted on: 31 August 2011 by rackkit
Originally Posted by DavidDever:
Originally Posted by rackkit:

One for sale over on the Bay. According to the seller, it's a one-off factory special, comes with serial no etc, so seems valid with the 2nd box housing the PS ala NAP 300 style. Must have been an out-of-hours project? 

I'd hate to see the Fraim racks housing that self-build active system in the New Forest!

It would probably put TonyM's system to shame.  There again, maybe not.