Naim Nait XS 3

The result is upgraded power amplifier sections for NAIT XS 3, delivering greater pace and intimacy to their musical delivery – whether it's driving a pair of loudspeakers or your favourite pair of headphones.
The NAIT XS 3 has received significant performance upgrades, including a built-in phono stage, making it a perfect partner for turntables, as well as for streamers, CD players, or any other music source people want to enjoy with the signature Naim sound.

The NAIT XS 3 offers much of the performance of our reference quality SUPERNAIT 3 in a simpler, slimmer package combining a 70W power amplifier with five analogue inputs plus a phono stage. Its high-performance preamplifier stage is as transparent as you would expect from a Naim Audio amplifier, and it also shares the single-ended class-A headphone output of its larger sibling

Features

With our typical obsessive attention to detail – all in service of achieving the most authentic musical performance – the NAIT XS 3 benefits from the following features:

• Class A headphone amplification
• Alps Blue Velvet volume control
• Reed relay input selection
• Ceramic insulators for the power transistors
• Galvanically isolated microprocessor control section
• Microphonic-isolating PCB mounts

Audio Inputs

• MM Phono Input via RCA, 47k parallel 470pF input impedance, suitable for 5mV cartridges
• Line Level Inputs: 130mV sensitivity, 47k input impedance, suitable for 2V
• Power Amp In: DIN Socket

Audio Outputs:

• Powered Accessory Sockets : +24V for Naim phono amplifier
• Speaker Outputs: 70W per channel into 8 ohms (4mm sockets), 100W per channel into 4 ohms
• Line Outputs Variable (level): Pre-amp (DIN), Bi-amp (DIN), Sub (RCA pair) 775mV, <50 ohms
• Line Outputs Fixed (level): AV (DIN), Stream (DIN) 130mV, 600 ohms
• Headphone Output : 1/4 inch (6.35mm) TRS Socket

Power:

• Power Consumption (max.): 350VA
• Mains Supply: 115V, 230V; 50 or 60Hz
• Power Consumption (quiescent): 16VA
• Power Consumption (quiescent): 16VA
• Shipping Weight : 12 kg
• Shipping Dimensions: 200 x 590 x 500 mm
• Weight : 8.5 kg
• Dimensions (HxWxD): 70 x 432 x 314 mm