Unitiqute Review

Whats the hot points?, we have not seen it.

Paul - Keith Howard reviewing.

Final verdict -

Nice things do indeed come in small packages. At its heart the UnitiQute is a fine amplifier to which signals can be delivered in myriad different ways, including on-board analogue / digital radio and wired or wireless network streaming. The streaming option doesn't provide the best sound quality - for that you have to replay files from USB stick - but its flexibility and Naim's neat interface are undeniable.

Sound Quality : 78%.

James

to my mind its worth at least 79%

Sound quality 78% what a bunch of cock.

I was quite surprised. KH is a bit of a computer audio guru and actually tests DACs and the like with care rather than the usual nod to the.computer that other reviewers give.



James

Mr. Howard gave the Naim Dac 83% (in a review of the CDX2 + DAC), He also tested it with an XPS.

Best wishes,
Peter

83% of what exactly?

Tog

"83% of what exactly?"

Of 100

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aleg

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Some thing that is 17 % better? That might not be mathematically correct, of course!


I assume Mr H has a 100% reference piece, otherwise as you intimated 83% is a completely meaningless figure.

I haven't used a magazine review to purchase something for many many years. I think mainly they are read by people to see if the reviewer agrees with them over their purchase, if he agrees good review if he don't  "I don't take any notice of reviews" .  

Which was my point, how does one put a percentage on this? How can I improve its percentage. If I use different speaker wire can I expect a 3% increase or decrease in quality.

The depressing thing is someone will make a decision based on an score set by a spoon in front of a computer.

Amazing.

(I have never heard a qute BTW, perhaps its only 75% who can tell)

Sturgeon's law "Ninety percent of everything is crap"

Tog 

That review Qute's been a bit of a tart, and even turns up in BBC Music Magazine this month too.
"...so accomplished it quickly highlights the inadequacies of deeply compressed... (etc)... we recommend you stream music sampled at no less than 320kbps...  a top-class and utterly contemporary one-box audio player". (Nick Renshaw).

This can be accomplished with a PC, using TVersity as a proxying transcoding server.

I sometimes wonder how reviewers who use percentile terms to measure audio performance actually arrive at a specific figure of 78%! Could they show us the mathematical equation or is this a figure plucked from the sky! It would be far more meaningful to measure audio perfomrance by comparing it to some other audio brand of comparable quality.

Don't hold your breath for a mathematical expression. The goal posts are constantly moving anyway. As you state, the only meaningful comparison is to similar product at similar prices.

Jan
Audio reviewer 20% of the time

P.S., shameless plug : great review of the UnitiQute and UnitiServe in the December 2010 issue of Son & Image magazine, in French

Except crap, which is 100% crap.

10% water



Tog