How do you think Naim design their components?

i think they lay out a design to perfectly render transients and overtones, then subtract bits to control price points.

at least in their amplifiers, i think they have been successful to a degree other manufacturers can only dream of.

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Originally posted by Consciousmess:
Do you think Naim makes the best they can think of for each component and then scales down e.g. 4 lower versions of them by taking out certain components?

Rumbled.

I suppose that the give-away was the 555/555PS, NAC 552 and NAP 500 being our first products and the rest of the range produced after them.

And we would have got away with it -- if it hadn't been for those pesky kids.

An interesting question, but one we cannot know the answer to unless R&D contribute, I would think.

In certain models, which became the topline, it is certain that what emerged was the best that the state of the art allows within a given budget, but for the less expensive pieces, it is hard to know what was the decision making process over cost compromises.

I suspect it varies from model to model! Possibly starting with a concept - possibly a nearly finished undeveloped design at the start, possibly like the shoe-box Naits.

On the other hand those models that at one time were the topline seem to retain a magic in spite of their age [eg the pre-amps 72 and 32.5 in my experience] which other more sophisticated, but never topline models [like the 82 and 102 again in my experience] do not have ...

What this says about the budget being a stated target that may or may not be over-run, I am not so sure. For me it suggests that the topline were made with more freedom from budgetary constraints, and could over-run to some extent, whereas those living in the lower eschelons of the hierachy had to keep their place with more rigid budgetary limits.

Once again the Naits seem to prove that this rule is not necessarily hard and fast in terms of quality of performance.

All speculative as no doubt you expected!

ATB from George

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How do you think Naim design their components?

Like most other companies. They muddle through despite hindrance from the marketing department.

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And we would have got away with it -- if it hadn't been for those pesky kids.

Scooby Doo.

Over three thousand posts? ZOIKS!!!!!

"Eye of newt, and toe of frog,
Wool of bat, and tongue of dog,
Adder's fork, and blind-worm's sting,
Lizard's leg, and howlet's wing,--
For a charm of powerful trouble,
Like a hell-broth boil and bubble."


Willy.

Sounds rather like the incantations use in the 1985 film Wired Science but in that case Kelly Le Brock was conjured out of thin air rather than a Naim black box

Mmmmmmm....Kelly Le Brock....