Best Buys – Audio & AV – July 2019

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SYSTEMS &

SOLUTIONS

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any hi-fi moons ago, Naim Audio

was a dyed-in-the-wool amplifier-

centric UK hi-fi company regarded

as something of an industry rogue

in terms of ‘going its own way’. But it evolved,

taking its core base of truly hi-fi amplification

to new levels (witness the $200k+ Statement

pre-power amplifier), while investing well ahead

of the pack in streaming audio trends. Its 2011

merger with French speaker company Focal

brought an injection of design flair and driver

nous to Naim products, and a few years later came

its first wireless

standalone

speaker,

the Mu-so.

Somehow this

managed to

retain Naim’s

emphasis on

audio excellence

while shifting

into this

potentially

populace-

pleasing product area; reviewers loved it (it won

a Sound+Image award), and it proved highly

successful with consumers. A smaller, roughly

cubic, Mu-so ‘Qb’ followed (see panel). And now,

WIRELESS SPEAKER

NAIM AUDIO MU-SO

GEN 2

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Redesigned with new drivers and new abilities, the second

NAIM AUDIO Mu-So Generation 2 wireless speaker

multiple streaming platforms to deliver many paths to your music.