In Reply to: Vintage Audio Equipment Repairs posted by AudioSoul on May 14, 2015 at 14:34:28:
Not only won't they supply schematics but will not even provide spare parts, many of which are made only for Naim. Then in my experience, they take months to do a simple repair and then charge obscene amounts of money for it.
There are many products and companies in high end audio and other specialty hobbies where the bulk of the marketing and claims are total BS. No surprise. But in my opinion, Naim is the all time worst. And I know better than most; many years ago, sadly, I was one of their dealers. It looked like a good concept on first blush but the more I got to know their real marketing philosophy and got to really see how they operate, it wasn't long before I dropped them. I did invest in a really expensive demo system. Did it sound good? Yes. But with some effort, I found it was easy to beat their performance with other products at a fraction of the cost.
Avoid Naim at all cost.
Open up your mind, in pours the trash. - Meat Puppets, 1987
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- Naim is the worst, for this and many other reasons... - Vinyl Valet 09:04:19 05/15/15 (14)
- RE: Naim is the worst, for this and many other reasons... - Crazy Dave 09:46:52 05/15/15 (13)
- Manufacturer's who support their vintage gear? - Mr. Dick Hertz 13:34:24 05/15/15 (1)
- RE: Manufacturer's who support their vintage gear? - Crazy Dave 09:46:27 06/01/15 (0)
- Bingo... - Vinyl Valet 12:21:08 05/15/15 (1)
- RE: Bingo... - Crazy Dave 13:02:02 05/15/15 (0)
- Naim supports all their gear... - Vinyl Valet 11:53:26 05/15/15 (0)
- RE: Naim is the worst, for this and many other reasons... - 6bq5 09:54:52 05/15/15 (7)
- Like all cults... - Vinyl Valet 11:51:17 05/15/15 (0)
- Not my experience with NAIM they were great - kintyre695 10:47:14 05/15/15 (4)
- In all fairness to the latest US distributor... - Vinyl Valet 12:07:48 05/15/15 (3)
- RE: In all fairness to the latest US distributor... - Crazy Dave 13:15:01 05/15/15 (2)
- Not only is Dave Crazy... - Vinyl Valet 14:57:42 05/15/15 (1)
- Ouch! (nt) - Crazy Dave 09:48:22 06/01/15 (0)
- RE: Naim is the worst, for this and many other reasons... - Crazy Dave 10:44:05 05/15/15 (0)