Naim – Uniti Nova Streaming Media Player

The Centerpiece of an Entertainment Galaxy: Naim Uniti Nova Streaming Media Player Offers Spectacular Sound, All-in-One Convenience, Legendary Build Quality, and a Robust App

Room-filling power, sonic clarity, and all-in-one convenience are hallmarks of the Naim Uniti Nova Streaming Media Player. It’s easy to use and gleams with gorgeous aesthetics that will complement any listening space. But those issues are secondary to the exceptional sound quality it achieves—and the value it offers. You can enjoy incredible sonics from all your favorite music and radio stations, and even your TV. Stellar build quality ensures that this will be a system you can enjoy for years to come. (Scroll down to see just a small sampling of the accolades Uniti Nova has won, including a Stereophile Product of the Year Award.)

With its muscular amplifier output (80 watts per channel into 8 ohms), Uniti Nova can drive a wide variety of loudspeakers. Weighing just over 28 pounds, this elegant component is substantial, without being cumbersome. A large toroidal transformer is key to its reliable, low-noise performance.

Uniti Nova expertly handles all the top music-streaming services, including TIDAL, Qobuz, Spotify, and Apple Music. Plus, it offers easy Apple AirPlay 2, Chromecast built-in, and Bluetooth playback, so you can play audio from compatible devices. Uniti Nova also shines in terms of its overall flexibility, as it will seamlessly play with other music systems around your home, and connect to your TV via HDMI. Want to hear better audio from your favorite TV shows and movies? Uniti Nova is your solution.

The Naim app is simple to use, and there is voice-control support for Google Assistant and Apple Siri, along with a smart remote control. Like all Music Direct products, the Uniti Nova comes with the 100% Music Direct Satisfaction Guarantee.

“Beautifully designed and beautiful to look at, the Nova sets the pace as the greatest all-in-one integrated amplifier-streamer-media player I’ve ever heard. Its excellent overall sound was equaled by its ear-friendly way with Internet radio.”
—Ken Micallef, Stereophile, Product of the Year Award

“[The Uniti Nova’s sound] defied my expectations for a solid state integrated amplifier of this price point. In fact, it defied my expectations of a solid state DAC, streamer, preamp and amp at this price point. It sounded refined in a way I don’t tend to expect from any gear at this price point, much less integrated amplifiers…. Sound quality and ease of use coexist in a beautiful and truly endgame system.”
—Grover Neville, Part-Time Audiophile, Editors’ Choice Award

“The Nova’s flexibility is such that it can make the most of a broad range of partnering loudspeakers, up to and including our venerable reference ATC SCM 50s…. Our overriding impression of the Nova is that of absolute virtuosity…. Its command of the frequency range, from deep, textured, expressive bass notes to crisp, explicit treble sounds, is absolute…. Attack and decay of individual notes is completely convincing, organization and integration is seamless, and rhythmic balance is utterly natural.”
—What Hi-Fi?, five-star review

“While very few, if any, pieces of audio gear are completely transparent without some variations from absolute harmonic purity, I found the Uniti Nova remained remarkably close to ideally neutral…. The Naim Uniti Nova can make the transition from hair-shirt audiophilia into a thoroughly modern musical world a painless, musically expansive, and completely audiophile-approved experience.”
—Steven Stone, The Absolute Sound

“I went into this review a little bit skeptical, but I came out a believer in the Naim Uniti Nova music player. It’s an exquisitely designed all-in-one audio player that in my opinion sets a new audiophile standard for quality music reproduction from a single box this feature-laden. The intuitive nature of the operating system and Naim Control App, combined with the simplicity of the excellent remote, result in bulletproof functionality. What’s more, it’s a joy to use, being completely devoid of any of the glitches that typically accompany all-in-one products to one degree or another.”
—Bob Barrett, Home Theater Review

Easy Control for One Room or Many

The Naim app — available for Apple and Android devices — makes it simple to control your Uniti Nova, and even link it to other music systems around your home for a stunning, cohesive, multiroom setup. You can use the Naim app to access all your music, including your favorite radio stations, streaming services, and playlists, and explore artist discographies and biographies.

Uniti Nova works seamlessly with other Naim streaming products, including Mu-so systems. You can play the same song in beat-perfect sync throughout the house, or you can play different music in different rooms. 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.

Naim History & Philosophy

Naim Audio founder Julian Vereker MBE (1945 – 2000) was a race car driver, entrepreneur, and self-taught engineer with a deep passion for music. Spending his spare time listening to and recording his friends playing live in the 1960s, Vereker found that playback on his system at home fell woefully short of the experience he craved.

Not content with second-best, he decided to design his own amplifiers and loudspeakers, ignoring accepted wisdom and focusing on aspects of performance that made music burst to life. These first designs laid the foundations for a range of iconic and award-winning hi-fi products that would reach well into the next century.

Today, every Naim product is conceived, designed, and engineered entirely in service of the sound, delivering a pure experience of music that is as close as possible to its original live source.

The Naim Audio team believes that the exploration of sound is an adventure that rewards you with a clarity and connection that becomes more powerful the deeper you travel within it. That is why every element within a Naim product is crafted to create a silence around the sound, reducing any interference between the listener and the intention of the artist.