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Naim Solstice Special Edition Turntable
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Solstice
A New Dawn For Music
Naim Audio has proudly designed and handcrafted music systems in the historic English city of Salisbury for almost 50 years. Just outside the city lies the World Heritage site of Stonehenge, its Neolithic standing stones perfectly framing the movements of the sun. We didn’t need to look far for naming inspiration for this very Special Edition, nor did we need to deviate from our own heritage: although Solstice is our first turntable, we have been venerating vinyl since the genesis of Naim in the late 1960s.
If you love the organic authenticity of vinyl, you can now finally enjoy it with the musical purity and passion only a Naim system can deliver – welcome to a new dawn for music.
Limited to just 500 units, this Special Edition includes the Solstice turntable, a next-generation version of the iconic Naim Aro tonearm, an Equinox MC cartridge, Solstice Series Phono Stage, Power Supply and bespoke accessories set. The Solstice turntable combines core Naim design philosophies, such as multiple levels of mechanical decoupling, with a celebration of beautiful materials. It features a magnetic bearing supporting a high-mass, highly polished aluminium platter, with a unique, self-calibrating motor drive system, meticulously delivering the Naim sound.
The Special Edition package also includes a commemorative book, plus the Naim Records True Stereo album – a curated collection of superb-quality True Stereo recordings, newly remastered for vinyl.
Naim products aim to be both timeless and contemporary. Our designs eschew unnecessary visual adornment that do not serve performance goals. Solstice Special Edition design is functionally coherent, encourages use, sharp – almost brutalist – and wears its innovative materials and design solutions with pride.
Our founder, Julian Vereker often considered a Naim-designed turntable. Tragically, he never realised his plans before his untimely death in 2000. However, his legacy lives on with this project and the team behind Solstice Special Edition.
Even after the arrival of CD in the 1980s, Naim continued to champion vinyl, producing the iconic ARO tone arm in 1989. Aro has always set a benchmark in terms of delivering incredibly natural, organic and lifelike musical performances. Its design allows the cartridge to extract enormous amounts of the information from the grooves of a vinyl record, but with an incredible sense of flow and correctness to the resulting sound.
Updating Aro for Solstice Special Edition involved retaining the original’s design principles and excellence, but boosting performance further still by using improved materials – including tungsten and carbon-fibre – and adding an all-new, no compromise bias, arm height and azimuth adjustments.
The Equinox cartridge’s Moving Coil (MC) inner assembly sits in a solid aluminium housing machined from a single billet. A raked silver polished chamfer passes over the black cartridge edges, simultaneously communicating the unseen facets of the diamond stylus and giving a nod to heritage Naim ‘chrome bumper’ designs.
With the goal of making a glorious-sounding phono stage that was also easy and flexible to use, we referenced previous designs such as SuperLine, but also the pinnacle of Naim engineering: our Statement amplifier. The Solstice Series Phono Stage is the first to feature the Discrete Regulators developed for that flagship.
Led by our Technical Director (Electronics), Steve Sells, Naim’s expert engineers designed simple but elegant circuits, fed by our acclaimed high-performance DR tech, which provides the smooth, stable power supply that’s vital for next-level performance. Our production technicians then take premium components and fanatically measure, select and match them for ultimate accuracy.
The Solstice Series Power Supply is a bespoke design that powers both the turntable and the phono stage. For the ultimate performance, these two different power supplies are completely isolated, with no risk of interference.
Features & Specifications
| Parameter | Solstice Turntable High performance turnatble with carbon ARO unipivot tonearm |
| Model Code | NVS TT |
| Power Supply input connector | Type 2 |
| Speeds | 33 1/3 rpm, 45rpm |
| Motor Type | High torque 24V DC brushless |
| Motor Control | Optical feedback |
| Tonearm Audio Output | 5 pin Mini DIN |
| Front Panel | Clear Acrylic |
| Naim Logo | White illuminated |
| Logo Brightness setting | 3 position switch – High, Medium. Low |
| Dimensions (H x W x D) | 182mm x 420mm x 358mm 25.4kg |
| Weight | 25.4kg |
| Parameter |
Equinox MC Cartridge
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Model Code
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EQUINOX
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| Audio output | Individual 4 pin |
| Frequency Response | 20Hz – 40kHz |
| Output voltage | 0.4mV |
| Cartridge impedance | 11 Ω |
| Recommended tracking force | 2.2g -2.4g |
| Recommended MC input resistance value | 100Ω |
| Recommended MC input capacitance | 1000pF (= 1nF) |
| Recommended MC Gain setting | High |
| Weight | 8.0g |
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Solstice Series Phono Stage Switchable MM/MC phono stage with MC load adjustment
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| MM | MC (low & high gain) | |
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Model Code
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NVC TT
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| Gain |
42dB
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61dB low gain and 67dB high gain (switchable)
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| Signal to noise ratio |
83dB ref 5mV A-wtd
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84dB ref 0.5mV A-wtd (both gain settings)
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| RIAA accuracy |
+/-0.1dB
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| IEC cut |
(Partial) – 2dB at 20Hz and -3dB at 14Hz
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| Cross talk |
>75dB
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| Max output signal |
8Vrms
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| THD+N |
<0.005% ref 50mV input
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<0.005% ref 1.5mV input
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47kΩ and 100pF
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1000Ω, 600Ω, 430Ω, 330Ω, 250Ω, 215Ω, 185Ω,165Ω,150Ω, 140Ω, 125Ω, 115Ω, 105Ω, 100Ω, 90Ω, 85Ω100pF, 400pF, 700pF, 1000pF, 1300pF, 1600pF, 1900pF, 2200pF, 2500pF, 2700pF, 3100pF, 3400pF, 3700pF, 4000pF, 4300pF, 4600pF
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Headroom
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22dB ref 5mV input
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23dB ref 0.5mV input low gain setting, 17dB ref 0.5mV high gain setting
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Power Supply input connector
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Type 1
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Audio input
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Stereo RCA
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Stereo RCA
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Audio output
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Stereo RCA, 5 pin DIN, 8 pin DIN
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Front Panel
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Clear Acrylic
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Naim Logo
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White illuminated
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Logo Brightness setting
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3 position switch – High, Medium. Low
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Power input
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+/-18V DC @300mA
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| Dimensions (H x W x D) |
70mm x 214mm x 329mm
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Weight
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3.4kg
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