Naim 250
MJE 243/253 driving MJE 15003...
Factory used proprietary (?) transistors.
Now made in China.
Focal - Naim had 430 employees in 2019.
Workshop level operation, most employees would be in sales, few in design.
Service personnel levels I did not check.
Quad I think is part of a Chinese group since 1997.
SQ? I did not understand that.
Will somebody post a list of audio equipment actually made currently in the UK?
MJE 243/253 driving MJE 15003...
Factory used proprietary (?) transistors.
Now made in China.
Focal - Naim had 430 employees in 2019.
Workshop level operation, most employees would be in sales, few in design.
Service personnel levels I did not check.
Quad I think is part of a Chinese group since 1997.
SQ? I did not understand that.
Will somebody post a list of audio equipment actually made currently in the UK?
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I could be completely wrong on this, but I seem to remember Naim amps were quite fussy on speakers, except their own. 😕
Reason was they were marginally unstable into high impedance at high frequency, so need speakers with zobels on the tweeter to stabilise them, since they didn't have much Zobel correction on the amp output stage.
I would think a JR149 might have a zobel, being quite BBC LS3/5A.
Reason was they were marginally unstable into high impedance at high frequency, so need speakers with zobels on the tweeter to stabilise them, since they didn't have much Zobel correction on the amp output stage.
I would think a JR149 might have a zobel, being quite BBC LS3/5A.
They were fussy about speaker cables and could get quite upset with fancy shmancy cables, IIRC Litz might have been a problem. Vereker's designs sailed close to the edge and cable behaviour was important to the stability of the amp I believe.
I've used it with a couple of B&W speakers as well as some I made, I know other people with Naim gear who've never had a Naim speaker. Never had any problems driving them and Naim were making amps 6 or 7 years before they started with speaker manufacture.
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probably because he didn't use output inductors, but relied on resistors I think (?). Output inductors are easy enough to add in-line and remove the risk altogether
I just found the crossover for the JR149:
These Jr149 Crossovers | Page 2 | pink fish media
It's got an attenuator in the high pass, so shouldn't get too wild at high frequency.
These Jr149 Crossovers | Page 2 | pink fish media
It's got an attenuator in the high pass, so shouldn't get too wild at high frequency.
Look around on this and other forums: how many sets needing help?
How many made in China for British poseurs, and how many Japanese? How many Philips sets needing attention?
I want to listen to music, not spend my time and energy doing repairs.
Full stop.
How many made in China for British poseurs, and how many Japanese? How many Philips sets needing attention?
I want to listen to music, not spend my time and energy doing repairs.
Full stop.
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Sony make their Pro broadcast gear in South Wales, for worldwide distribution. Not everything is made where you think it might be.
Even if it's assembled in your home country the component parts may well have been made overseas.
Many years ago there was a push for Americans to buy USA. There was a proposed boycott of Kohmatsu farming machinery in favour of John Deere. Then it turned out John Deere was largely made outside the USA and Kohmatsu were manufacturing in the USA.
I can only speak from my personal experience and the Naim, Quad, Mission, Transcriptors, SME, NAD, Heybrook and B&W equipment I've owned has worked well for decades. No matter where it was made...
Whether something is overpriced and trading on its name is something else entirely...
Even if it's assembled in your home country the component parts may well have been made overseas.
Many years ago there was a push for Americans to buy USA. There was a proposed boycott of Kohmatsu farming machinery in favour of John Deere. Then it turned out John Deere was largely made outside the USA and Kohmatsu were manufacturing in the USA.
I can only speak from my personal experience and the Naim, Quad, Mission, Transcriptors, SME, NAD, Heybrook and B&W equipment I've owned has worked well for decades. No matter where it was made...
Whether something is overpriced and trading on its name is something else entirely...
The decades old products were made at a time when the bean counters were not in charge, and cost cutting was not very much in force....
One of the main reasons of shifting to China was in fact price, and also the notorious unions at that time, who did not realize their habit of disrupting work would make them jobless.
So gradually you have no factories, and the pool of people who could do the actual design work has dwindled.
Oh, well...
One of the main reasons of shifting to China was in fact price, and also the notorious unions at that time, who did not realize their habit of disrupting work would make them jobless.
So gradually you have no factories, and the pool of people who could do the actual design work has dwindled.
Oh, well...