Five Stars – What Hi-Fi? Magazine
"Absolutely Exemplary" Music Streamer and Player with CD Ripping
Enjoy everything from CDs to music-streaming services to radio stations with the incredibly versatile Naim Uniti Star. It will even boost your TV sound. Award-winning performance combines with excellent build quality and usability, wrapped in a beautiful British design that will give you years of entertainment.
Uniti Star's exceptional CD playback and its ability to rip discs to your own archive will bring new life to your CD collection. It also expertly handles all the top music-streaming services, including Spotify, Apple Music, TIDAL and Qobuz. It also offers easy Apple AirPlay 2, Chromecast built-in, and Bluetooth playback.
Thanks to its premium built-in amplification, Uniti Star can also seamlessly play with other music systems around your home, and connect to your TV via HDMI, so your favorite shows and movies sound better, too.
Master the Uniti Star and explore a world of music via the Naim App. There is also voice-control support for Google Assistant and Apple Siri, and even an included smart remote control.
Five Stars for Uniti Star
"It doesn't favour any particular musical genre and just gets on with the job of entertaining. There's plenty in the way of musical cohesion and rhythmic precision to keep things interesting," notes What Hi-Fi? magazine, which gave the Uniti Star its top rating of Five Stars."The Star is a great addition to the range, and if you need CD replay is the obvious choice."
"The addition of the CD player is very welcome," raves Mark Sparrow in Forbes magazine. "The sound is luscious, detailed and always in control of the music. I hesitate to use the word perfect about any product but the Naim Uniti Star sounds pretty perfect to me. I think you'd have to spend a great deal more to improve the sound of this unit."
"In terms of build quality and sound this is absolutely exemplary stuff from Naim," says Simon Lucas, trustedreviews.com.
The Clue Is in the Name
The clue is in the name. The Naim Uniti Star is the star of the show. With plenty of features and the ability to play, rip, store and serve your treasured music collection, Uniti Star offers infinite possibilities.
Since it includes a CD player alongside streaming and amplification technology, Naim engineers had to pay special attention to preserving thermal stability and decreasing interference between components. The custom-integrated CD drive also doubles as a ripper, making Uniti Star the most versatile all-in-one in the Uniti series.
Ready to go with practically any speaker set-up, Uniti Star will have you rediscovering your entire music collection with a deep, immersive sound. Uniti Star is a powerhouse offering 70 watts per channel into 8 Ohms It will match your desire to turn up the volume effortlessly.
A World of Music is Yours
Uniti Star lets you use UPnP™ (Universal Plug and Play) to read music from storage, or PCs and Macs on the same network as your Uniti, control it all with the Naim app and enjoy playback at up to 32bit / 384kHz resolution.
New for Uniti is native support for Chromecast built-in. This smart new streaming service creates a seamless link to hundreds of supported apps from your smartphone or tablet and streams directly to your Uniti system.
Discover millions of songs from the world's most popular streaming service with the built-in Spotify Connect feature. The lossless high definition streaming service is integrated into Uniti for an immersive, high-quality sound experience.
Tune in to thousands of available internet radio stations and podcasts or curate your favorites for quick access later.
Uniti players feature an HDMI ARC (Audio Return Channel) connection so you can easily connect your TV to experience audiophile sound quality from your favorite film or game. Pair your Uniti with any compatible Bluetooth device for simple high quality playback of music from that device.
Stream music from your iPhone, iPad or iPod Touch or from iTunes and Apple Music.
Impressively Expansive Connectivity
Connect your smartphone, tablet, memory stick or USB hard drive via the front or back panel USB connections for playback and charging of devices.
Integrate Uniti with all your audio sources using the digital inputs for TVs, set-top boxes or games consoles, as well as analog sources such as a turntable (phono stage required). The front panel 3.5mm headphone jack with new upgraded headphone amplifier offers significantly improved bass extension.
Fill your entire home with the Naim sound using Multiroom and Party Mode. With two or more Uniti products on your home network, you can play back the same music beat-for-beat in up to six rooms, all controlled via the Naim app.
Play back lossless music files in WAV, FLAC, AIFF and ALAC formats or stream MP3, AAC and Ogg Vorbis. All Uniti players also support DSD64 & 128 playback with gapless seek to time on all file formats.
Over-the-air updates via the Naim app will enable you to update your Uniti system at the touch of a button.
Going to Extraordinary Lengths
Naim has gone to extraordinary lengths to maximize the quality of digital music streams. Uniti is running on a completely new Naim designed and built streaming platform. Every component and material was put under the microscope, questioned, refined or replaced with new custom parts at every stage.
Uniti's unique and very powerful 40-bit SHARC DSP is so phenomenally accurate that it performs a staggering 2.7 billion calculations per second, giving it enough power to resolve the most complex music signals with ease.
Extreme care has been taken by Naim's highly trained engineers to protect sensitive components in the audio signal path from digital circuitry – isolated circuit boards for both analog and digital signals, optical isolators to transfer information between the two sides of the products and careful testing and analysis by our audio experts to catch any stray interference.
State-of-the-Art Wi-Fi
New Uniti players feature the very latest Wi-Fi, supporting both 2.4 and 5GHz, alongside far better internal buffer and memory. The antennas are integrated within the heatsink. Naim also installed a back reflector to prevent any harmful radiation from entering the unit.
Digitally Controlled Analog Volume
At the heart of all Uniti players is an audiophile volume control, adjusting levels in the analog domain to a premium digital resolution. The design is taken from the NAC-N 272 and its smooth structure is inspired by Naim's reference amplification system, Statement.
Class A/B Integrated Amplifier
Driving Uniti's digital innovation is a Class A/B integrated amplifier based on the design of one of Naim's most iconic and best-loved integrated amps – the NAIT. This iconic analogtechnology is the beating heart within each Uniti system. Running twice as fast as its predecessor, it is an amplifier that has all the distilled audio engineering know-how behind it.
A large toroidal transformer sits at the center of each Uniti system providing vital fuel, allowing the audio electronics to shine by converting a noisy 'mains' AC power supply into a high-caliber power source.
Easy App Control – In One Room or Many
The Naim App – available for Apple and Android devices – makes it simple to control your Uniti Star, and even link up other music systems around your home into a stunning multi-room set-up. Use the App to access all your music, including your favorite radio stations, streaming services and playlists, and explore artist discographies and biographies.
Uniti Star works seamlessly with other Naim streaming products, including Mu-so systems. Choose the same song in beat-perfect sync or play different music in different rooms. You can also pair Uniti Star with other AirPlay 2-compatible wireless speakers via the Apple Home app, or with other Chromecast built-in devices via the Google Home app.
