NAP250 first edition

Posted by: Bas V on 28 October 2000

Hi!
I can get a very early NAP250 for UKP 235. Should I buy this, if working correct, or is this too old? And what does this look like? I am planning on upgrading my pre-amp to a 102...

Regards, Bas

Posted on: 03 November 2000 by Eric Barry

are the difference in the serial numbers.

Anyway, I'd bet a 1977 250 is worth 200-ish pounds for sure. Don't you think it's beat a 1982 160, for instance. Maybe not the final step, but probably worth it. Can you listen before buying?

--Eric

Posted on: 03 November 2000 by Bas V

Hi Eric!
I think it can be quit good, but I cannot listen to it... I don't know how it compares to my 90/3.Do you know what it looks like?
Regards, Bas

Posted on: 03 November 2000 by Tony L

quote:
I think it can be quit good, but I cannot listen to it... I don't know how it compares to my 90/3.

Any remotely working 250 or 160 will absolutely kill a 90.

Tony.

Posted on: 03 November 2000 by Greg Beatty

...about the serial numbers.

Naim was in business before 1982, but the serial number record on the site starts with 0 in 1982.

How odd.

- GregB
Freedom is not in finding the Holy Grail but in stopping the search for it

Posted on: 06 November 2000 by David Dever

If I recall, the NAP 110 / NAC 42 range started with its own range of serial numbers in 1979...at one point, I believe, each product may have had its own range of assigned numbers, until the lists converged around 1982, from whence (methinks) they've been assigned on a work-order basis, i.e., as they are produced.

Therfore, it would be possible to have two units with similar ranges of serial numbers that could have been made up to six years apart (this based on the internal production lists), prior to 1982--hence the confusion.

Hope this helps,
Dave Dever, NANA
(back from vacation & surf)