Streaming audio player

Naim uniti €2995

  • Internet Radio Player
  • FM and DAB Tuner
  • Naim CD player with swing drawer CD tray
  • Front panel USB port for MP3 and USB-stored audio playback
  • iPod control, charging and front-panel screen content display via Naim n-Link*
  • Integrated amplifier (50 W per channel into 8Ω) with 5 analogue inputs
  • On-board DAC with 5 digital inputs
  • Plays WAV, MP3, Windows Media-formatted content, AAC, Apple Lossless (from an iPod), FLAC from any suitable UPnP device
  • Network connectivity via Wi-Fi or Ethernet

NAIM NAC-N 172 XS € 2350 

Pre-amp with streaming audio (UPnP), digital and analog inputs.

  • UPnP™-enabled to stream audio files from any UPnP enabled server such as UnitiServe or a NAS at up to 32bit/192kHz resolution
  • vTuner 5* full service internet radio
  • Optional FM/DAB module variant available
  • Streams/plays WAV, FLAC, ALAC, AIFF, AAC, WMA, Ogg Vorbis and MP3 files
  • Gapless playback available on all lossless file formats
  • Front-panel USB port for replay of MP3 player/iPod and USB-stored audio
  • Multiple intuitive control interfaces: front panel, remote control handset and n-Stream control app
  • USB mini-b connector for software upgrades
  • High quality Burr-Brown PCM1793 DAC
  • Five 24bit/192kHz-capable S/PDIF digital inputs (2 x coaxial RCA, 2 x TOSlink, 1 x front panel mini-TOSlink)
  • 3 analogue inputs (1 DIN, 1 RCA pair, 1 x 3.5mm front-panel socket)
  • 1 line output
  • Front-panel 3.5mm headphone connector
  • OLED display for high contrast and easy visibility
  • Ethernet and Wi-Fi network connectivity

 

Nativ Vita $1599

 

 

Touchscreen controlled streamer.

Add an SSD and you have a music server.

 

Technology.

Processor & Memory

Multi-Core Cortex A9 processor with ultra-fast 4GB DDR3 RAM

Control

  • Built-in 11.6” touchscreen LCD (IPS), 1920 x 1080 pixels
  • TV via HDMI or Google Cast
  • Apps: iOS/Android/Smartwatch
  • Voice Control
  • Infrared Remote Control

Music sources

  • Built-in support for Apple Music, Spotify, Pandora, Tidal etc.
  • Over 40,000 internet radio stations
  • Shared libraries on PC/Mac/NAS via UPnP/DLNA or SMB/CIFS.
  • USB Hard Disk Drives
  • Smartphone & Tablet

Apple Airplay, Spotify Connect & Google Cast

  • Browse and play music from your smartphone or tablet
  • Stream music from Nativ Vita to any Apple Airplay or Google Cast-enabled speaker/player
  • Display Nativ user interface on any Google Cast enabled device/TV

Wireless and wired networking

  • Dual-band 802.11 a/b/g/n/ac
  • Gigabit Ethernet

Bluetooth input & output

aptX® support for high-quality streaming from your smartphone and to your Bluetooth headphones and speakers.

Audio formats, bit- and sample-rates

  • WAV, AIFF, Apple Lossless Audio Codec (ALAC), FLAC, APE, AAC (M4A), MP3, OGG Vorbis. DSD64, DSD128, DSD256 and DXD
  • 44.1 to 384 KHz at 16-, 24- and 32-bit resolutions
  • Gapless playback
  • Metadata: Support of multiple genre tags and .CUE files. MP3 (ID3v1 & ID3v2), AAC (M4A/M4P), OGG, FLAC, APE2, RIFF (for AVI/WAV files) and MP4 tags.

Has only digital out (no DAC) but they do make one in the same style.

 

 

Added 2016