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The Naim Audio Uniti Core is the ultimate music manager, able to create bit-perfect copies of your favorite CDs and serve them and the rest of your digital music collection.

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    Product of the Month – Gramophone


    Five Stars – the-ear.net


    The Ultimate Music Manager from Naim

    The Naim Audio Uniti Core is the ultimate music manager, able to create bit-perfect copies of your favorite CDs and serve them and the rest of your digital music collection up to music players around your home. Every element of this dedicated music server – from the customized operating system, the enhanced ripping engine and the linear power supply to the low-vibration aluminum casework – has been engineered to deliver consistent, reliable performance and highest sound quality.

    Simply load a CD and Uniti Core will expertly rip and catalog your music. Choose from a range of internal and external storage options for your new digital library. Uniti Core is the perfect music-server partner not just for the Uniti Atom, Uniti Star, and Uniti Nova players, but many other music-streaming players, speaker or systems, from Naim and beyond.

    Uniti Core can stream to up to twelve different players at once. In addition to being a sleek music archivist and server, Uniti Core can also act as a superb music source. Award-winning performance combines with excellent build quality and usability, wrapped in a beautiful British design that will give you years of entertainment. Master the Uniti Core and explore a world of music via the Naim App.

    Uniti Core represents the essence of digital music. It is a seriously powerful machine that will store up to 100,000 tracks on an HDD or SSD. It will serve up to twelve streams and allows you to install the hard drive of your choice (installed by user). It is a fuss-free, no-compromise solution to ripping, storing, cataloing and playing all of your music in one place. Move your entire collection of music online with the bit-perfect ripping technology at Uniti Core’s heart.

    "Delivers a Very Enjoyable Musical Performance"

    "Across a wide range of music, the Core not only shows the potential of the new Uniti platform but also delivers a very enjoyable musical performance, whether with music ripped from CD – which it handles efficiently, even finding cover artwork and booklet notes using a combination of Rovi, MusicBrainz and FreeDB lookups – or higher-definition content streamed to a suitable player," notes Andrew Everard in Gramophone, which honored the Uniti Core with "Product of the Month" status.

    "It is good to see how far Naim has come in the power, quality and reliability of its digital products. The UnitiCore is a real advance on its predecessor and is heartily recommended in the context of a Naim system," reports Chris Kelly in his Five Star review for the-ear.net, January 8, 2019.

    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.

    Easy App Control – In One Room or Many

    Easy App control – in one room or many The Naim App – available for Apple and Android devices – makes it simple to control your Uniti Core, 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.

    Product Features

    Overview

    • Networking music server with CD ripper and optional (user-owned and user-installed) internal storage
    • CD Ripping: Create bit-perfect copies of your CDs, store them internally and play back (external DAC or digital input amplifier needed)
    • CD Formats: Audio CD (Red Book, CD and CD-R)
    • Storage: Store up to 100,000 tracks to internal (user-owned and user-installed) HDD or SSD - up to 8TB or external Network Attached Storage or USB-connected storage and serve to a network-connected player
    • Network: Ethernet (10/100/1000Mbps)
    • Control with Naim app for Apple and Android
    • Finishes: Brushed or anodized aluminum

    Multiroom

    • Serve up to 12 network-connected players via UPnPâ„¢.
    • Serve up to 4 network-connected players via UPnPâ„¢ at full CD quality
    • Party Mode Streaming: Sync up to six Uniti all-in-one players or other Naim streamers and control via the Naim app

    Music Stored Locally On Uniti Core

    • 384k 32-Bit WAV, 24576kb/s: <3 streams
    • 384k 24-Bit WAV, 18232kb/s: <5 streams
    • 192k 24-Bit WAV, 9216kb/s: >12 streams
    • 44.1k 16-Bit WAV, 1411kb/s: >16 streams

    Music Stored On NAS

    • 192k 24-Bit WAV, 9216kb/s: <8 streams

    Audio Formats

    • WAV - up to 32bits/384kHz
    • FLAC and AIFF - up to 24bit/384kHz
    • ALAC (Apple Lossless) - up to 24bit/384kHz
    • MP3 - up to 48kHz, 320kbit (16 bit)
    • AAC - up to 48kHz, 320kbit (16 bit)
    • OGG and WMA - up to 48kHz (16 bit)
    • DSD - 64 and 128Fs
    • Gapless playback supported on all formats. All formats to 384kHz maximum over wireless network.

    Connectivity

    • Audio Inputs: 2 x USB Type A jacks (front and rear)
    • Audio Outputs: 1 x BNC S/PDIF
    • Network: Ethernet (10/100/1000Mbps)

    Product Specs

    Power Consumption

    • Typical Use (no storage attached): 6.7W
    • Network Standby (no storage attached): <2W
    • Deep Sleep: <0.5W
    • Network Standby (with internal or USB HDD attached): > 15W (Actual power consumption will vary depending on the size and type of attached internal HDD or USB devices)
    • Note: Power consumption will be increased with the addition of user fitted storage (typical increase of approximately 8W for an internal HDD, dependent on the specification of storage).

    General

    • Dimensions (HxWxD): 3.75" x 8.5" x 10.4"
    • Weight: 15.5 lbs.

    Product Warranty

    2 Years Parts & Labor Naim Audio Warranty Information

    Product of the Month – Gramophone

    "Across a wide range of music, the Core not only shows the potential of the new Uniti platform but also delivers a very enjoyable musical performance, whether with music ripped from CD – which it handles efficiently, even finding cover artwork and booklet notes using a combination of Rovi, MusicBrainz and FreeDB lookups – or higher-definition content streamed to a suitable player. And, unlike the old UnitiServe, which had a somewhat clunky interface, the Core is simple to use as a player, making it a highly viable choice as a source for a digital music system, even if you don’t need its extended networking capabilities."

    - Andrew Everard, Gramophone, Sunday, August 20, 2017


    "...the Uniti Core is very impressive even as a standalone component. What you get is a superbly engineered product that will store your digital music files, let you organize them so they’re easy to find, and extract details from them that you may not have realized they contain."

    - Gordon Brockhouse, SoundStage! Simplifi, April 15, 2019


    Five Stars – the-ear.net

    "It is good to see how far Naim has come in the power, quality and reliability of its digital products. The UnitiCore is a real advance on its predecessor and is heartily recommended in the context of a Naim system."

    - Chris Kelly, the-ear.net, January 8, 2019

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