Naim Audio Ltd.

Naim Audio Ltd.

A passionate and committed interest in music is the foundation stone of Naim Audio that has enabled us to design and manufacture what we believe to be the finest sounding range of audio equipment available in the world today.

Founded by Julian Vereker MBE (1945 - 2000), his original inspiration continues to motivate Naim, its people and its designs.

While all our products must meet and exceed many measurable parameters we believe that they should, above all, be capable of delivering the kind of musical performance that we ourselves would want to live with. This requires a special and unique approach to component selection and system design along with a highly specialised production environment.

From the remarkable NAIT integrated amplifier to reference products such as the NAC552 preamplifier, NAP500 power amplifier, and the CD555 compact disc player, the same skills and design expertise have been applied. The result is the acceptance of these products by music lovers world-wide as having no equals in their respective classes.

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UnitiServe

• Hard disk player/server

UnitiServe

UnitiServe is a compact, slot-loading, CD ripping, hard disk music player and server based on the technology of the multi-award-winning Naim HDX. It takes the fundamentals of the HDX; a massive internal hard disk drive, Naim bit-perfect ripping, Ethernet connection, UPnPTM server, StreamNet technology and local digital outputs, and combines them with a set of features perfectly suited to music in the home of today, and tomorrow.

UnitiQute

• all-in-one audio player

UnitiQute

It’s a cliche we know, but good things come in small packages. The UnitiQute all-in-one audio player however isn’t just good: it’s a brilliant-sounding, uniquely versatile, seductively compact and, of course, irresistibly cute example of what contemporary music in the home is all about. Music downloads, high-resolution music files, internet radio, network music, UPnP™ servers, iPod/MP3 players, Wi-Fi streaming - everything that the new era of music delivery can throw at it, UnitiQute can play.

DAC

• digital to analogue converter

DAC

The nature of music delivery is changing fast. CD has been joined by downloads, portable music players are part of the landscape, computers are routinely connected to hi-fi systems, and USB memory sticks are used to store high resolution music files. So the Naim DAC, our first stand-alone digital to analogue converter, arrives at an exciting time in the narrative of high quality music in the home. And listening to the DAC builds the excitement yet more.

NaimUniti

• All-in-one audio player

NaimUniti

The NaimUniti is our first ever all-in-one audio player. It combines a ten-input, 50-Watt-perchannel integrated amplifier based on the award wining NAIT 5i, a CD player based on the similarly acclaimed CD5i, and a digital-to-analogue converter with an output filter derived from that developed for the stunning CD5x. To all that, NaimUniti adds a high quality DAB/FM tuner, the ability to play streamed audio files wirelessly from UPnP™ servers or internet radio stations, and separate interface inputs for USB memory sticks carrying audio files, iPods and mp3 players. NaimUniti has every base covered; you just need a pair of speakers.

CD5i

• CD Player

CD5i

Designed by the same team that produced the world's finest CD player, the fabulous Naim CD555, the CD5i benefits both from shared technology and the shared passion to extract every last grain of music from the disc that it's playing.

CD5x

• CD Player

CD5x

The CD5x uses every possible development from earlier and more costly Naim CD players to help establish it as the reference entry-level CD player. The drawer and transport suspension is borrowed from the CDX2; a low inertia, resonance-controlling device that ensures rigid coupling and mild damping without adding to the task of the drive servo mechanism by increasing rotational inertia.

CD5 XS

• CD player

CD5 XS

The CD5x uses every possible development from earlier and more costly Naim CD players to help establish it as the reference entry-level CD player. The drawer and transport suspension is borrowed from the CDX2; a low inertia, resonance-controlling device that ensures rigid coupling and mild damping without adding to the task of the drive servo mechanism by increasing rotational inertia.

CDX2

• CD Player

CDX2

-Ultra-high quality CD player.
-Twenty power regulators make up a fully double-regulated power supply with exceptional dynamic stability.
-User-configurable versatile (DIN/phono) outputs.
-Full infrared remote control.
-RC5 input for wired remote control in complex installations.
-Optional RS232 input/output for use in full home automation systems.
-The optional Naim XPS power supply provides six regulated power supplies; this significantly reduces supply noise for all supply.

CDS3

• CD Player

CDS3

All the trademark features of a Naim player are brought together in the CDS3 along with a host of new and innovative engineering solutions pioneered during the development of the flagship NAC552 and NAP500 amplifiers. Together with the elegant styling, the result is a truly stunning, thoroughly satisfying musical performance.

CD555

• CD Player

CD555

- A machined, heavy, solid transport tray to reduce resonance and vibration amplitude
- High mass design to improve suspension characteristics, providing isolation from the chassis and other components
- Low infra red reflective coatings around the CD to reduce eye pattern interference and noise
- An extremely low inertia and low resonance CD clamp
- A Philips Pro CD mechanism with a die-cast chassis
- A very heavy brass sub-chassis - separate for digital and analogue electronics.
- Analogue stages, I-to-V conversion, filtering and output driver are built from discrete components.
- Seven-pole output filters
- A separate low jitter clock circuit with its own multi-stage regulated power supply
- Post-digital filter de-jitter circuitry to eliminate jitter
- DACs are isolated from electric and magnetic fields
- A motorised top loading door

HDX

• Hard disk player

HDX

Computers and music have drawn ever closer since a hard-disk recorder was first used in a music studio. Now, with downloads being part of the everyday audiophile experience, computer technology has become an inherent element of music in the home.

NAT 05

• Tuners

NAT 05

The superb quality of broadcast material came as an unexpected delight when we began serious investigations into the FM medium in the early eighties. The NAT 05 continues the Naim tradition of producing the best sounding tuners in the world and is based on technology developed and refined by us over 20 years.

NAT05 XS

• tuner

NAT05 XS

Apart from the benchmark and matchless ALPS high performance tuner head, the NAT05 XS tuner is a completely new design. The tuner head is compliantly mounted within the aluminium casework and feeds analogue circuitry that benefits enormously from Naim analogue knowhow. FM remains the medium for the highest quality radio transmissions and the NAT05 XS is optimised to exploit FM like no other tuner.

n-Vi integrated CD/DVD player/processor/amplifier

• Audio visual

n-Vi integrated CD/DVD player/processor/amplifier

Combining DVD, home theatre and genuine high-end hi-fi music reproduction has suddenly become simple. The n-Vi delivers everything you need in one box: DVD and CD player, AV Processor, audio preamplifier and five-channel audio power amplifier. And each element expresses everything we know about making true to life music and video in the home.

NAIT 5i

• Power amplifiers

NAIT 5i

There’s a long Naim tradition of the NAIT Integrated Amplifier punching above its weight. It began with the original NAIT in 1983 and continues now with the NAIT 5i. Although the recent introduction of the SUPERNAIT represents the current state-of the-art for integrated designs, the NAIT 5i remains a superb and cost-effective introduction to the Naim sound for those who don't require the SUPERNAIT's advanced features and capabilities.

NAIT XS

• Power amplifiers

NAIT XS

The amplifier is a hi-fi system's heart and the NAIT XS beats fast and strong. The NAIT XS has but one purpose: to deliver dynamic, detailed, emotional and satisfying music. It takes the DNA of our best-ever integrated amplifier, the SUPERNAIT, and, like a sports car stripped back to essentials for the track, delivers musical performance that truly excites and inspires.

Supernait

• Power amplifiers

Supernait

SUPERNAIT is not just a superbly musical amplifier; it's an analogue and digital audio control and connection hub that just happens to have some of the world's best audio amplification attached. SUPERNAIT's preamplifier section is directly descended from Naim's superlative reference series preamplifiers, and its power amplifier incorporates all the techniques and know-how that give voice to the traditional Naim qualities of rhythmic musicality.

NAC 152 XS

• preamplifier

NAC 152 XS

When a separate preamplifier/power amplifier approach is preferred, the NAC 152 XS provides the perfect option. It was conceived around a completely new motherboard design that incorporates advances of both analogue electronics and mechanical decoupling, and its performance is detailed, refined and utterly musical. Versitility is a NAC 152 XS forté too. Its six analogue inputs all offer DIN or phono connection options and it incorporates a front-mounted, auto-switching input socket for convenient MP3 player use. Power output for a Naim phono preamplifier is also included and a two-stage power supply upgrade regime brings true high-end preamplifier performance easily within reach.

NAC 202

• Preamplifiers

NAC 202

The Naim NAC 202 combines first-class sound quality with flexibility, style and excellent value. Significant improvements in technology led to an entirely new range using new high quality star-earthed circuit boards, combining the classic Naim values of musicality and power with flexibility and value.

NAC 282

• Preamplifiers

NAC 282

The years of research spent developing the flagship NAC 552 preamplifier introduced a new level of technical and musical performance. Many of these developments, along with its elegant styling have been applied to NAC 282. The NAC 282 combines truly awesome sound quality, with user selectable features and flexibility that ensure it will function as the heart of a high quality hi-fi system for many years.

NAC 252

• Preamplifiers

NAC 252

The NAC 252 descends from the NAC 52 - still one of the finest preamplfiers ever manufactured. It brings both control and connectivity advances over the NAC 52, and a significantly enhanced construction, aesthetic and finish. Its performance, too, is enhanced with the benefit of a decade of R&D bringing yet more speed, detail, transparency and music.

NAC 552

• Preamplifiers

NAC 552

The introduction of the NAP 500 in 2000 brought with it a new level of technical and musical performance. A Naim design project group began reviewing the existing preamplifier designs exploring possibilities for major design improvement over the existing reference preamplifier, the Naim NAC 52.

Stageline

• Preamplifiers

Stageline

The Stageline is a separate phono stage, available in either moving coil or moving magnet versions, designed to optimise sound quality from a wide range of cartridges. The Stageline can be powered either from a special socket on the rear of the NAIT 5 or by a separate supply such as the Flat-Cap 2 for even better performance. The Naim i-SUPPLY can also be used to deliver very cost effective 24V power to the Stageline.

SuperLine

• Preamplifiers

SuperLine

Vinyl replay makes a huge contribution to the enjoyment of recorded music. At its best, vinyl has a uniquely engaging and musical quality, and with the launch of the SuperLine phono amplifier, the best of vinyl has just got better.

NAPV 145

• Power amplifiers

NAPV 145

During the years of research that went into the flagship NAP 500, many technical developments came about that have been successfully applied to the NAPV 145. Based around the circuit topology of the latest NAP 250, the NAPV 145 provides even greater dynamic capabilities and enhanced audio performance, resulting in the perfect solution for high quality multi-channel or active audio systems.

NAPV 175

• Power amplifiers

NAPV 175

All home entertainment systems need the best possible amplification if they are to reproduce accurately the original soundtrack with all the dynamics and emotion the composer or director originally recorded. Dynamics and emotion are trademarks of the Naim sound: the NAPV 175 three-channel amplifier is the perfect partner for our AV2 processor. Each of the three power amplifiers has its own supply consisting of a dedicated transformer winding and selected rectifiers and capacitors.

NAP 155 XS

• power amplifier

NAP 155 XS

The NAP 155 XS is the perfect companion to the NAC 152 XS preamplifier in an XS system. It features a very large mains transformer – both physically and in terms of its power rating – and at the heart of its power supply uses the same reservoir capacitors as the award-winning SUPERNAIT integrated amplifier.

NAP 200

• Power amplifiers

NAP 200

During the years of research that went into the NAP 500 amplifier, many technical developments were made that could be successfully applied to the existing products. Many of these developments, along with the elegant new styling have been incorporated, resulting in the 'Classic' line-up.

NAP 250

• Power amplifiers

NAP 250

The newest Naim NAP 250 delivers speed, power and agility providing exceptional detail and musicality in a package built to swing for another 25 years. The newest Naim NAP 250 delivers speed, power and agility providing exceptional detail and musicality in a package built to swing for another 25 years.

NAP 300

• Power amplifiers

NAP 300

After seventeen successful years at the top of Naim's amplifier range, the NAP 135 has been eclipsed by the flagship NAP 500. Many years of research went into the NAP 500, as fundamentally new components and technologies had to be perfected before Naim could raise the performance level. Many of these technical developments, along with the elegant new styling have been applied to the mighty NAP 300.

NAP 500

• Power amplifiers

NAP 500

Our design brief for the NAP 500 required an amplifier that could drive any load down to 2 Ohms for prolonged periods, deliver over 100W into 8 Ohms and sound - at the very least - as good as our reference at the time, the NAP135.

NAP 6-50

• 6-channel amplifier

NAP 6-50

The multi-room NAP 6-50 provides six channels of Naim quality amplification for users installing multi-room systems. To integrate into such systems it provides a low power standby mode, control line input or signal sensing to ‘wake up’ out of standby mode, the ability to drive long and varied speaker cables, and electronically controlled fan cooling.

Ovator S-600

• Loudspeaker

Ovator S-600

The Ovator S-600 is the result of a three-year development programme and represents both a remarkable new expression of proven Naim speaker engineering and a technological advance that, quite literally, recasts the accepted ground rules of electro-acoustics.

i-SUPPLY

• Power supplies

i-SUPPLY

The Naim i-SUPPLY was conceived and designed to deliver very low-noise, regulated 24V power to the Naim Stageline phono preamplifier. It is now available in three versions:

S to power the Naim Stageline phono preamplifier
H to power Naim’s high quality headphone amplifier
I to power or charge original Firewire-connected iPod models

NAPSC

• Power supplies

NAPSC

The NAPSC comes as standard with the NAC 282 preamplifier and can be bought as an upgrade for the NAC 202. The NAPSC then supplies all the digital circuitry used for the preamplifier switching. The NAPSC can also be used to power the Headline headphone amplifier.

Flat-Cap 2x

• Power supplies

Flat-Cap 2x

The Flatcap 2x is an external power supply that replaces the Flatcap2. The improvements to sound quality are subtle but significant: dynamics are more even across the audio band, bass lines are more easily differentiated and the system noise floor is reduced. The performance improvements are even more obvious when powering a preamplifier and CD player at the same time.

FlatCap XS

• power supply

FlatCap XS

The FlatCap XS is a dual-rail power supply that, either alone or in pairs, provides the most effective means to extract the ultimate performance from an XS system. One FlatCap XS can be used to enhance the performance of a CD5 XS and a NAT05 XS, while a second could be deployed to supercharge the performance of the NAC 152 XS preamplifier. The vital role played by the power supply in any hi-fi system is a long held Naim conviction and it has no better demonstration than the increased musical fluency that the FlatCap XS brings to a system.

Hi-Cap

• Power supplies

Hi-Cap

Although certain Naim amplifiers provide a very adequate power supply to the partnering preamplifier, the use of a separate Naim ultra-low noise power supply brings substantially improved musicality to the whole system. Simply being separate from the amplifiers ensures correct earthing and hum-free operation, while the large toroidal transformer and generous high quality smoothing capacitors provide exceptional dynamic stability.

XPS

• Power supplies

XPS

The importance of power supplies has been close to the heart of Naim philosophy for over twenty years. Naim research proved that divorcing the main power supply from a CD player is wholly beneficial, whereas the more common arrangement of housing the converter circuitry in a separate box causes many problems.

Super-Cap

• Power supplies

Super-Cap

The importance of power supplies has been close to the heart of Naim philosophy for over twenty years.

Although certain Naim amplifiers provide a very adequate power supply to the partnering preamplifier, the use of a separate Naim ultra-low noise power supply brings substantially improved musicality to the whole system. Simply being separate from the amplifiers ensures correct earthing and hum-free operation, while the large toroidal transformer and generous high quality smoothing capacitors provide exceptional dynamic stability.

SNAXO 242

• Crossover

SNAXO 242

The SNAXO 242 is our two-way, 18dB/octave fixed frequency crossover. Crossover frequencies are defined by a series of active filters, designed with particular attention to transient handling, which must be matched to the loudspeaker system with which the crossover is to be used.

SNAXO 362

• Crossover

SNAXO 362

The SNAXO 362 is our three-way, 18dB/octave fixed frequency crossover. Crossover frequencies are defined by a series of active filters, designed with particular attention to transient handling, which must be matched to the loudspeaker system with which the crossover is to be used.

Headline

• Amplifier for headphones

Headline

The Headline is an amplifier designed to offer optimum performance from a variety of high impedance headphones. Fitted with a captive lead, the Headline takes its signal from the tape socket of any of our preamplifiers. It has its own volume control and is designed to be very, very quiet. It has the ability to drive most headphones to an adequate level (loud!) with low distortion.

Uni-pivot

• Tone-arm

Uni-pivot

The low-mass, Naim uni-pivot tone-arm is designed to offer the very best phono cartridges delicate yet precise support at all audio frequencies.

R-com

• Remote control

R-com

There's a tradition of stylish and intuitive handsets for Naim products that offer qualities beyond the standard items. The latest, the R-com, marks a return to the slim and stripped-down handset style last seen from Naim in the shape of CDS/NAC 52 handset of the mid 1990s.

Speaker cable

• Cable

Speaker cable

Connections between all the components, including those to the loudspeakers, are crucial to any audio system’s performance.

Interconnects

• Cable

Interconnects

Improvements in Naim's cable manufacturing technology have meant that several of our interconnects have taken on a new guise. The SNAIC 4 and 5, along with the Burndy cables for the NAC552, NAP300, CDS3, CDX2 and SNAXO, along with those for older models, have all been upgraded and now have smart black outer sleeving to differentiate them from their predecessors.

Hi-Line interconnect

• Cable

Hi-Line interconnect

During the development of the CD555, a special project ran in parallel; to develop a new signal cable which would exceed the performance of Naim’s standard cable.

Powerline

• Cable

Powerline

With the launch of Naim's first custom designed and manufactured mains cable system, the most fundamental of all audio hardware items has hit centre stage. The Power-Line consists of a mains plug, a mains cable and an IEC connector. Each element incorporates features never before seen in an audio mains cable, and, like Naim's Hi-Line interconnect cable, the Power-Line represents a genuine advance in high-end audio engineering.

Naim Fraim

• Fraim supports

Naim Fraim

The Fraim support system is designed to optimise the performance of hi-fi and AV systems from Naim and other manufacturers.