Its input circuitry must accept the entire output of the source without being overloaded, while the frequency response and level of input signals must be normalised. The signal then needs further conditioning to ensure that the power amplifier is never driven outside its operating parameters.
Exceptional overload capability is maintained over the whole audio bandwidth. All our preamplifiers have a frequency response to within 1dB between 20Hz and 20kHz and offer perfect stability under all working conditions.
There are no switched filters, tone or loudness controls on Naim preamplifiers: design at this level makes them superfluous. They can never improve the quality of the signal, and there is a sharp penalty for their use in terms of loss of musical information.
We house the power supplies for our preamplifiers in separate cases to avoid the degrading effects of magnetic fields and pay very special attention to both earthing and the type of input connector used.