Old Naim Manuals

Posted by: Dungassin on 27 December 2016

Just looking on line for manuals for old Naim amps. Alas, Naim themselves no longer seem to have them on their website, but to my surprise I found them on the Flashback site.

Very useful, because I am retiring the rarely used (long story) active Olive System in the living room, and passing on the 52/52PS to my younger son-in-law. He only has a Linn Axis/Basik/Rega MM cartride turntable and NDX as sources at the moment, and I suggested to him that he could keep his 32.5/SNAPS and use it just as a phono preamp (moving magnet), running a lead from one of the tape sockets into the 52 - probably most easily into the RCA phono inputs on the 52 (which has line boards on that input.

Posted on: 27 December 2016 by Premmyboy

Very useful and very lucky son in law.

Posted on: 28 December 2016 by PaulM160

Had to rely on exactly the same route for my olive 52/52 PS, still going strong after so many years.

Posted on: 28 December 2016 by ChrisSU

If you want to find some information relevant to discontinued equipment, try searching Naim's Knowledge Base. Some of this information has been obsolete for a good few years, and is going to confuse anyone applying it to current products. A similar criticism could be pointed at the forum FAQ pages.

Posted on: 28 December 2016 by Richard Dane

The thing about the forum FAQ is that the information is both good and highly relevant.

It's just that nobody seems to read it...

Posted on: 28 December 2016 by Dungassin

Just in case anyone wants to know, the active system is being 'retired', because SWMBO insists that the living room is 'hers' (I avoid it like the plague when she is watching TV because soaps/reality TV etc drive me completely round the twist)

I'm taking the LP12 up to my study now that I have managed to make room for a Tiger Paw shelf and have got a 2M 4pin/5pin SNAIC (Chord Company) to connect prefix/Olive HiCAP to the 552.

The actual dismantling will happen after the New Year, because she won't let me do it while the Christmas tree is still there. (sigh). I did manage to remove the Rega Radio Tuner from the system yesterday, so that my eldest daughter could take it home with her.

Irrelevant, but we really enjoyed the Birmingham Hippodrome Panto yesterday. Paid for the whole family (sometimes I'm a generous grandad). My three year old granddaughter spent most of the performance jumping up and down on my lap.

Posted on: 28 December 2016 by ChrisSU

Richard Dane posted:
The thing about the forum FAQ is that the information is both good and highly relevant.
It's just that nobody seems to read it...

To be fair, there is indeed plenty of useful info in the FAQ, despite much of it being dated. Maybe putting it as a 'sticky' at the top of all (relevant) forums would encourage people to use it (although weather or not you should give Gollum his ring back is none of my business.)

.......apologies to the OP for this diversion!

Posted on: 28 December 2016 by sheffieldgraham

Richard Dane posted:
The thing about the forum FAQ is that the information is both good and highly relevant.
It's just that nobody seems to read it...

There'a a bit of irony here Richard.

When you click on the link in your FAQ's post Can't Connect your Kit? Need a Manual? Read This! , it says page can't be found.

I find it an interesting and informative section though.

Posted on: 28 December 2016 by Richard Dane

Yup, conceded Graham. I must edit the link.

Posted on: 30 December 2016 by lutyens

Funnily enough I have just been trying to find the same but for a more lowly olive model. A search here pointed me at a German Naim suppliers site where they had them all just like Naim used to here.

I still don't understand why they cannot be on the Naim website here.

Posted on: 31 December 2016 by sheffieldgraham

lutyens posted:
Funnily enough I have just been trying to find the same but for a more lowly olive model. A search here pointed me at a German Naim suppliers site where they had them all just like Naim used to here.
I still don't understand why they cannot be on the Naim website here.

Class A audio have a NAIM and LINN manual download section on the web site.

Never noticed it before. Maybe it's a new addition. For current models it directs you to the NAIM web site.

Direct downloads are available for older models.