The Allae offers truly stunning musical performance that will always enhance the pleasure of your listening experience.

Technically this speaker has many features of interest, including the separation of the drive units within their own enclosures, which is now a standard feature of Naim designs reducing mechanical interference and thereby enabling predictable acoustic performance not possible in normally configured loudspeaker designs.

The critical interface between the speaker and the floor is controlled by means of a leaf-spring and cast aluminium, spiked stand fitted to the base of the cabinet.

Installation and assembly of the Allae is simplicity itself, with the bass/mid cabinet sitting neatly on Naim PIPs (precision interface pins) mounted on the top face of the bottom cabinet.

The PIPs define the air gap between the two cabinets, providing a controlled distributed reflex port, which is free of the usual turbulence problems. The bass alignment has been chosen to allow the speakers to be used either against a wall or out in the room, depending on the listener preferences and room acoustics.

Acoustically the bass/mid driver is loaded by the larger lower cabinet which houses the high frequency unit and to which the passive crossover is attached. The wide dispersion Scan 19mm HF unit is isolated further by mounting on a sprung plate, acting as a mechanical filter between cabinet and driver.

Mass aluminium dampers are another Naim first : thermally stable mass dampers are used on the Allae drive units and internal cabinet panels to reduce resonance.

Featuring a computer modelled cast aluminium chassis, the Allae 200mm bass unit is fitted with a split-mass aluminium phase correction device, which also improves heat dissipation and power handling.

Standards of manufacture, as always with Naim products, equal those of design from perfect matching of drive units down to delicate measurements of acoustic materials.

Visually the Allae is excellent and is available in a range of modern, real wood veneers.