Like the latter, SuperUniti employs Naim’s “Zero Jitter” buffering technology, which clocks incoming digital signals into the unit’s buffer memory, before then clocking them out to provide a stable conversion stream. But as Naim points out, in addition to the SuperNait the SuperUniti also draws inspiration from the UnitiQute, the NDX network music player, and the Naim DAC.
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The heart of the SupertUniti, however, is firmly grounded in Naim’s classic componentry, most specifically the 5 Series amplifier found in the 80Wpc SuperNait integrated amplifier, from which the SuperUniti’s guts derive. But I imagine a whole other, and dare I add younger, flock of SuperUniti customers will be drawn to this sleek model’s streaming audio and other digital capabilities because, after all, Naim calls the SuperUniti an “all-in-one,” music player that simply needs speakers-and externally generated sources-to make music. You can, of course, as I did, hook up a CD player via analog inputs, as well as a turntable, and I suspect that many users may do just that. Like the UnitiQute, the SuperUniti contains no disc drive. Nor of another one that’s done it so gracefully. I can’t think of another audio company with such a long track record that has so firmly and expansively embraced the word of computer audio. The latest in Naim’s now three-year-old and frequently augmented Uniti series, the $5995 SuperUniti joins the NaimUniti 2 ($4695, with built-in CD player) and UnitiQute ($2695, no disc drive), along with two versions of Naim’s UnitiServe Hard Disc/Server ($3695 and $3995). And not just upstarts but iconic manufacturers-and at this point in the company’s history England’s Naim Audio certainly qualifies as the latter-are embracing this new world order. CD sales, while not dead, diminish every year more and more streaming devices are hitting the market and this very magazine devotes serious coverage to the evolving world of computer-driven digital-audio playback and HD downloads. As a certain scruffy young bard once sang, “The times they are-a changin’.” Although many aspects of our hobby remain constant, especially the continuing health of analog and two-channel sound, there’s no doubt that digitalaudio reproduction is on a pathway of serious change.
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