Naim Nait XS3 Integrated Amplifier

Naim Nait XS3 Integrated Amplifier with MM Phono Stage

The NAIT XS3 is an integrated amplifier delivering outstanding audio performance. Its advanced features and high-quality components ensure excellent clarity and detail, making it a perfect choice for audiophiles and music enthusiasts alike. Whether you're using it with a streamer, CD player, or any other music source, and whether you're listening to your music through a pair of speakers or headphones, it delivers the signature Naim sound and provides a more dynamic and immersive musical experience.

Versatile and Reliable

The NAIT XS3 comes with a powerful 70W power amplifier and five analogue inputs, as well as a phono stage, making it a versatile and reliable choice for any music lover. Its preamplifier stage is incredibly transparent, ensuring that the sound is pure and precise. Additionally, it features a single-ended class-A headphone output, which is ideal for private listening. It is also upgradeable with external power supplies, power amplifiers, and cabling upgrades, allowing you to achieve the best possible performance from all your audio sources.

Technology and Craft

Naim’s R&D team has made significant improvements to the NAIT XS3 performance. They have doubled the speed of the voltage gain stage, which doubles the rate at which the speaker output stage can react. The second gain stage transistors have been optimised, eliminating the need for a cascode stage transistor, which means less amplifier stabilisation is needed, doubling the slew rate, and improving sound quality.

The phono circuit topology consists of three stages, which results in outstanding noise performance, extended RIAA equalisation beyond the audio band, and great overload headroom. All RIAA equalisation capacitors are through-hole mounted film designs to provide low microphonic pickup and excellent transient performance. The input impedance is 47kΩ in parallel with 470pF capacitive loading, and the gain is perfect for 5mV moving magnet cartridges.

Why Choose The Naim Nait XS3 Amplifier

The Naim NAIT XS 3 is one of those amplifiers that quietly pulls you into the music and then refuses to let go. On paper it’s a clean, purposeful 70-watt integrated with five analogue inputs, a seriously good built-in phono stage and a Class A headphone output, but in use it’s all about pace, drive and musical engagement. Naim’s latest circuit refinements bring a noticeable lift in clarity and speed, with a deeper soundstage, firmer bass and a beautifully rich midrange that makes vocals and instruments feel more present and natural. It’s equally happy partnered with a streamer, CD player or turntable, and it carries that unmistakable Naim sense of rhythm whether you’re driving speakers or listening late at night on headphones. Add in its upgrade path with external power supplies and you’ve got an amplifier that can grow with your system and reward long-term listening in a very satisfying way.