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Naim Uniti Nova
The Uniti Nova streaming player is an exceptional device that guarantees an outstanding sound experience for all your favourite music, radio stations, and even your TV. Its versatility and adaptability will undoubtedly transform your home and elevate your listening experience to a whole new level. Award-winning performance combines with excellent build quality and usability, wrapped in a beautiful British design that will give you years of entertainment.
Stay connected
The Uniti Nova is an excellent addition to your home entertainment system, providing you with an immersive multi-room experience. You can easily connect with other music systems in your home to enjoy high-quality sound throughout your living space. Its HDMI connectivity also enables you to enhance the audio experience of your favourite TV shows and movies.
Explore more!
With the Focal&Naim App, you can easily explore and access all your favourite radio stations, and playlists and even discover artist discographies and biographies. The Uniti Nova expertly handles all the top music-streaming services, including Spotify, Apple Music, TIDAL, and Qobuz, which means you can stream uninterrupted music anytime, anywhere. It also offers Apple AirPlay 2, Chromecast built-in, and Bluetooth playback, so you can enjoy your music wirelessly.
Voice Control Support
The Uniti Nova supports voice control for Google Assistant and Apple Siri, making it easy to manage your music and entertainment, plus, the smart remote-control handset ensures that you can stay connected with ease. You can also pair Uniti Nova with other AirPlay 2-compatible wireless speakers via the Apple Home app, or with other Chromecast built-in devices via the Google Home app.
Home Automation Integration
Smart Home Compatible
This product integrates seamlessly with leading home automation systems, including Control4, Crestron, Elan, RTI, and Savant.
Control your Focal & Naim system through a single, intuitive interface, delivering a harmonious, unified experience throughout your home.
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Naim Uniti Nova — one-box finesse with separates-level ambition
The Naim Uniti Nova packages an impressively coherent, musical signature into a single chassis: a dry, muscular yet slightly warm presentation with refined clarity, tight dynamics and engaging timing. Reviewers such as Part Time Audiophile and The Ear note how the Nova can "disappear" with sympathetic speakers while delivering 80W per channel of class-AB punch. Its connectivity set is exhaustive — from Roon Ready, AirPlay 2 and Chromecast to BNC/RCA inputs, USB storage and a polished Focal & Naim app — a point underlined by Audiophilepure. Build is solid, with a substantial feel, large smooth volume knob and a 5" colour display. Ideal for listeners who want separates-like sound without the matching headaches, the Nova is a compelling one-box endgame for most systems.
Pros
- Musical, coherent sound with refined clarity and pleasing tonal balance — competes with much more expensive separates.
- Extensive modern streaming and connectivity (Roon Ready, AirPlay 2, Chromecast, TIDAL, Spotify, BNC/RCA/USB) that covers nearly every use case.
- High-quality build and ergonomics — hefty chassis, superbly smooth large volume control and an attractive colour display.
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Cons
- May lack the deepest bass/headroom with the most demanding, difficult-to-drive speakers.
- Digital section is not the quietest; some separates/DACs reveal finer low-level detail and a crisper, shinier top end.
- Remote's motion-sensor can be over-sensitive, affecting battery life for some users.
Sound Quality
88/100
Dynamics
89/100
The Nova's 80W/ch Class AB topology delivers tight, controlled and musically coherent dynamics per reviewers — Part Time notes "Bass is tight and dynamic," and The Ear highlights timing and interaction that often beat more powerful alternatives. However reviewers also mention it can lack the deepest bass/headroom with some difficult-to-drive speakers, so excellent but not flawless for all speaker loads.
Soundstage Imaging
87/100
Imaging is frequently praised for its ability to "disappear" with the right speakers (Part Time: "startling disappearing act" with ProAc; The Ear: certain speakers vanished and were placed "four square in the room"). At the same time some reviewers note that absolute pinpoint precision can be bettered by separates, so the unit is strong and often excellent but not universally the most precise imager.
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Build Quality
90/100
Physical construction and finish receive high marks — reviewers describe the Nova as hefty with tasteful aesthetics, a superb, smooth large volume knob and a high-quality 5" colour display (Part Time and The Ear praise the build and finish). The solid feel, weight and attention to controls and display support a high score for build and ergonomics.
Features Connectivity
95/100
Extremely well featured: Roon Ready, Chromecast, AirPlay 2, Spotify/Tidal, Bluetooth, Ethernet/Wi‑Fi, USB storage, BNC/RCA/coax/optical inputs, HDMI (for TV), headphone jack and a mature app/remote ecosystem. Given this comprehensive modern streaming and I/O set the Nova sits at the top end of the feature scale for an all‑in‑one.
Value for Money
93/100
Reviewers repeatedly praise the Nova as a compelling one‑box solution that competes with much costlier separates — comments include it being the "complete package" that will keep most listeners happy and sounding like many $10k stacks. At its price reviewers frame it as a justified premium with explicit positive value commentary and few caveats beyond speaker-matching.
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