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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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Professional Reviews 91/100
Deliciously Crispy
Sound Quality
90/100
Build Quality
91/100
Features Connectivity
95/100
Value for Money
90/100
The coherent, engaging sound of this all-in-one makes it feel far bigger than a single box, with refined clarity, tight timing, and a slightly warm, muscular character that keeps records spinning. Part Time Audiophile and The Ear both praise its musical flow and effortless convenience.
What Reviewers Are Saying
Pros
Delivers a musical, coherent presentation with clarity, openness, and strong timing that keeps the performance engaging.
Exceptionally flexible streaming and control options, including Roon, Chromecast, Spotify Connect, AirPlay, Bluetooth, and strong app-based operation.
Build quality feels hefty and premium, with especially satisfying tactile controls and a polished industrial design.
Can sound like a much pricier stack of separates while keeping setup simple and self-contained.
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Cons
Lowest-bass authority can be limited with some loudspeakers, especially harder-to-drive designs.
Imaging is good but not always class-leading; separates can deliver finer spatial precision and low-level detail.
SOUND QUALITY PERFORMANCE 90/100
Reviewers consistently describe the Uniti Nova as musically cohesive, refined, and engaging, with a dry-but-not-analytical character that still brings clarity and openness. The main caveat is that some reviewers note it is not the last word in absolute bass grip, pinpoint imaging, or ultra-fine low-level detail compared with bigger or more expensive separates.
Transparency Resolution
91/100
Reviewers praise its 'brilliant clarity and openness' and note 'refinement' that feels 'sweet and invisible.' One review also says it is not the quietest digital source money can buy, so the finest recesses of recordings are not always laid bare as deeply as with more ambitious separates.
Tonal Balance Musicality
93/100
The Nova is repeatedly described as having a characteristic dry, muscular, slightly warm tone that remains refined rather than analytical. Reviewers emphasize its musical coherence and how hard it is to stay objective because it keeps drawing them into record after record.
Dynamics
90/100
The amp is credited with tight, dynamic bass and strong timing, with the ability to keep musicians sounding locked together. At the same time, one reviewer says it can run out of authority with some speakers in the lowest bass and is not always the best choice for difficult loads.
Soundstage Imaging
88/100
Reviewers report some impressive disappearing-act behavior and convincing 'four square in the room' realism with the right speakers. Even so, imaging is also described as not always its forte, with separate components able to deliver more precise definition and spatial separation.
Assessments of Build Quality, Usability, and Overall Propositions.
Build Quality
91/100
The chassis is described as hefty and very nicely finished, with particular praise for the smooth, satisfying volume knob and the overall feel in use. Reviewers also highlight the tactile quality of the controls and the solid impression it makes despite the compact size.
Features Connectivity
95/100
This is very heavily equipped for an integrated amplifier: streaming, app control, Roon Ready support, Chromecast, AirPlay 2, Bluetooth, Spotify Connect, Tidal, UPnP, Ethernet, Wi-Fi, USB storage support, multiple digital inputs, HDMI, and remote control. Reviewers specifically praise the app and the flexibility of using the unit from phone, remote, or front panel.
Value for Money
90/100
Reviewers are broadly positive about the value proposition because it behaves like a complete system rather than a single-box compromise, and one review says it sounds like many far more expensive stacks of separates. It is not cheap, but the comments frame it as a serious long-term buy that competes strongly with costlier alternatives.
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