So the Uniti 2 appears...

Posted by: Simon_H on 03 May 2012

Announced at Munich and reported at What HiFi

Highlights
Improved analogue section
70 watts (new transformer 400VA)
Latest version of 24-bit/192kHz-capable streaming board
£2795

not much of a gap to the SuperUniti.

Posted on: 03 May 2012 by BigH47

It appears NAIM are still working on CD players then.

Posted on: 03 May 2012 by Woj

uh....I just bought the orginal NaimUniti.....should have waited....

Posted on: 03 May 2012 by Guido Fawkes

Originally Posted by Woj:

uh....I just bought the orginal NaimUniti.....should have waited....

Yes - unless you got it much cheaper and are very happy with it

Posted on: 03 May 2012 by Audio 1

Originally Posted by Woj:

uh....I just bought the orginal NaimUniti.....should have waited....

Originally Posted by Guido Fawkes:

Originally Posted by Woj:

uh....I just bought the orginal NaimUniti.....should have waited....

Yes - unless you got it much cheaper and are very happy with it

I just received the UnitiServe last week for regular price and now of course they have updated it to a 2 TB drive.

Posted on: 03 May 2012 by ursus262

Oh dear! Product obsolescence already

Posted on: 03 May 2012 by Prubast

Just glad I went for the UServe SSD a few weeks ago - Dont think I would be very happy otherwise.....

Audio 1 - Don't suppose you can still return it under first 30 day rule and then order the new one?!

Posted on: 03 May 2012 by Tog

Fairly pointless - at that price buy a SU.

Fantastic upgrade to the uServe though - they have put a 2TB hdd in it

Tog

Posted on: 03 May 2012 by Audio 1

Originally Posted by Prubast:

Just glad I went for the UServe SSD a few weeks ago - Dont think I would be very happy otherwise.....

Audio 1 - Don't suppose you can still return it under first 30 day rule and then order the new one?!

I may have to look into that!

Posted on: 03 May 2012 by KRM

I wonder if they can upgrade existing uServes to the 2TB drive?

Keith

Posted on: 03 May 2012 by CSI_Basel

Wonder if it is still worth to get the Superuniti, now that the uniti 2 is out. I wonder how long until a Superuniti 2 will be out?

Posted on: 03 May 2012 by Klout10

Originally Posted by KRM:

I wonder if they can upgrade existing uServes to the 2TB drive?

Keith

Same for older HDX versions, mine is 2*400GB...

Regards,

Michel

Posted on: 03 May 2012 by Simon Everest

Still no AirPlay…

Simon

Posted on: 03 May 2012 by Woj

I have actually paid not bad price and I really like it so after reflection I am OK with it. I only hope that the 'old' NaimUniti will be fully supported software wise and not left behind the updated unit.

Posted on: 03 May 2012 by engjoo

Such (short) product lifespan will be expected for streaming related product as I consider streaming still to be an evolving technology. Some aspects like user interface and protocols (upnp) will probably see an update every 3-6 months.

Posted on: 03 May 2012 by BigH47

Is this the future we were wanting?

Posted on: 03 May 2012 by Bruce Woodhouse

Originally Posted by Klout10:

Originally Posted by KRM:

I wonder if they can upgrade existing uServes to the 2TB drive?

Keith

Same for older HDX versions, mine is 2*400GB...

Regards,

Michel

I'm in the market for that HDX upgrade too, but could they also transfer our existing data to the new discs?

Posted on: 04 May 2012 by alainbil

Originally Posted by Simon_H:

I was hoping that something else would be announced, a SuperDac or a modernized line of preamplifiers that can be controlled from iPad, iPhone and iPod Touch. The current classic line of preamplifiers is ten years old now.

Posted on: 04 May 2012 by Guido Fawkes

Originally Posted by BigH47:

Is this the future we were wanting?

Yes it is progress ... if it is new then it must better, musn't it?

Posted on: 04 May 2012 by Guido Fawkes

Originally Posted by Tog:

Fairly pointless - at that price buy a SU.

Fantastic upgrade to the uServe though - they have put a 2TB hdd in it

Tog

I think you can now store your downloads on it and it'll stream FLAC just like a Vortexbox and it supports ALA and AIFF and AAC - so I think it is a big improvement ....... I'm not sure if it'll rip to FLAC and transcode on the fly to WAV, but think it might.

I think the Uniti 2 looks pretty good as it is like the SU with a CD player for those times when you just feel the desire to spin some silver

I think the new products look pretty good ....

Still no airplay though

Posted on: 04 May 2012 by rjstaines

Originally Posted by Bruce Woodhouse:

Originally Posted by Klout10:

I'm in the market for that HDX upgrade too, but could they also transfer our existing data to the new discs?

Yes they could. Whether that's part of the update service, I don't know, but I would hope so.

Do you have any disk space (PC or external USB hard drive) where yould copy the contents of your 'MQ' folder before the update... then just copy it back to the new US and do a 'rescan' of the music store...