NAIM SOLSTICE SPECIAL EDITION

You give love a rad Naim

If you need evidence that vinyl’s resurgence isn’t a passing fad, note that British audio brand Naim has seen fit to make the first turntable in its 50-year history. Just 500 are being made, each one with a plinth crafted from 47 separate layers of wood and an Equinox MC cartridge sitting in a solid aluminium housing machined from a single billet. The list of hi-fi nerd specs is long and distinguished, with a self-calibrating drive system, a tungsten and carbon-fibre tonearm, and phono stage tech nabbed from its £170,000 flagship Statement amplifier. Naim has labelled the coming of the Solstice as a ‘new dawn for music’, which is a bit much, but nevertheless we’ll take two.

£16,000 / naimaudio.com