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Trades-in are a matter for your dealer. I don't think Naim ever does those itself. So it's all about what your dealer thinks they can resell your Superuniti for. Obviously the trade in value of a Superuniti may fall with the new unit in the offing although maybe there will be enough people who like the old styling to stop prices getting too depressed too quickly.

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David

I went to the Indulgence show on Saturday.  It was good to catch up with Phil and Jason and also get a closer look at the New Uniti range.  It certainly looks great "in the flesh" although the lighting was fairly dim so...  Beautiful inside as well, and as usual, Naim seem to have found space for a huge transformer where most would have settled for something much smaller.  I sat down to take a listen to the Atom and it seemed to be coping reasonably well with a room with a tricky ceiling and a pair of speakers that were four times its cost.  So, proper sonic impressions will have to wait, but it looked very promising.

longmanjon posted:

does anyone know if there will be any trade in offers for these units, i.e. superuniti for nova, or because they are not the same named device it wont be possible

Hi LongmanJon,

Any trade in deals will be at the discretion of the dealers...

Cheers

Phil

Grumman posted:

Hi

Will it be possible to connect the muso to the new uniti atom or novo as a speaker?

The Atom / Nova / Star can all be used in Multiroom mode with the existing Mu-so / Uniti / ND and NAC-N series products if that is what you mean?

You can't just wire the Mu-so to the Atom / Nova / Star as an extension speaker though.

Cheers

Phil

Cbr600 posted:

when will naim be issuing the brochures / literature on the new range?

I will try to find out from the marketing department what their plans are for product literature...

Cbr600 posted:

regarding the core storage, would it be possible to buy multiple units  as storage capacity is needed, and the system see them as a single source?

Are you meaning multiple Cores or a core and multiple NASs / USB drives? Either would be possible and this functionality was already in the UnitiServe / HDX / NS0x (but not using USB drives).

Cheers

Phil

Good morning Phil,

Still wondering about the HDMI socket on the units. Earlier in this thread (p2 or 3) you say that this is an input only. If that is so, then what purpose does the audio return channel (ARC) serve?

Am I correct in thinking that the ARC is a digital output?

Or have I got this bass ackwards?

Jan

Jan-Erik Nordoen posted:

Still wondering about the HDMI socket on the units. Earlier in this thread (p2 or 3) you say that this is an input only. If that is so, then what purpose does the audio return channel (ARC) serve?

Am I correct in thinking that the ARC is a digital output?

 

ARC is digital output from something like a TV back into a AV system.  So in a way yes, it must be technically an output from the Unit offering HDMI sink for video, but in terms of audio its an input TO the Uniti.  Sounds quite a unique solution.

ARC over HDMI allows not just digital audio to be fed to the Uniti but also simplified control; when connected this way the remote you use for your TV can also automatically control volume on  the Uniti.  It can allow other control functions too depending on how it is configured - perhaps Phil can clarify here.

Richard Dane posted:

ARC over HDMI allows not just digital audio to be fed to the Uniti but also simplified control; when connected this way the remote you use for your TV can also automatically control volume on  the Uniti.  It can allow other control functions too depending on how it is configured - perhaps Phil can clarify here.

To be pedantic ... surely the volume control aspect is part of CEC (Consumer Electronics Control) rather than ARC (Audio Return Channel)?

Eloise, from reading the spec and details of ARC it would appear that it brings a form of standardisation and compatibility across different types of CEC (Anynet, Viera link, Bravia Sync etc..).

Richard Dane posted:

ARC over HDMI allows not just digital audio to be fed to the Uniti but also simplified control; when connected this way the remote you use for your TV can also automatically control volume on  the Uniti.  It can allow other control functions too depending on how it is configured - perhaps Phil can clarify here.

HDMI CEC events are supported. Standby, Volume/mute and overall wakeup events are supported. There will be menu options  so the user can decide if the system reacts to various ones to stop it automatically switching inputs etc. 

Phil

Phil Harris posted:

There will be menu options so the user can decide if the system reacts to various ones to stop it automatically switching inputs etc. 

Thats good news as TVs often send spurious events ... I know if I let it my TV turns the AV amp to the ARC input ever time it turns on.

Thanks for the replies, but the question remains unanswered: Is the ARC a digital output?

Just trying to understand the possibilities of the new Unitis.

Thanks,

Jan

Jan-Erik Nordoen posted:

Thanks for the replies, but the question remains unanswered: Is the ARC a digital output?

Just trying to understand the possibilities of the new Unitis.

Thanks,

Jan

I'm sure I have already but just to confirm - the HDMI is an input from an external HDMI source and not an output...

Phil

PCD, I have looked it up and it is an audio return channel that can be used instead of S/PDIF to output digital audio.

Phil, I realize that the HDMI socket is an input, but the whole point of ARC is to return audio back to the sender, as I understand it. 

So even though the HDMI socket is an input, part of it can also serve as an audio output, right ?

Thanks,

Jan

Jan-Erik Nordoen posted:

PCD, I have looked it up and it is an audio return channel that can be used instead of S/PDIF to output digital audio.

Phil, I realize that the HDMI socket is an input, but the whole point of ARC is to return audio back to the sender, as I understand it. 

So even though the HDMI socket is an input, part of it can also serve as an audio output, right ?

Thanks,

Jan

No ... It is an audio input - it is not an audio output. It is designed for connection to the HDMI ARC output from a TV so that TV audio can be passed through the Uniti...

Phil

Ah, I see. So if you connect a BD player to a TV and the TV to a Uniti, the audio would go through the TV down the ARC channel to the Uniti, provided the TV supported that option. Alternatively, you'd need to use S/PDIF from BD to Uniti. Right?

Frank.

Frank Abela posted:

Ah, I see. So if you connect a BD player to a TV and the TV to a Uniti, the audio would go through the TV down the ARC channel to the Uniti, provided the TV supported that option. Alternatively, you'd need to use S/PDIF from BD to Uniti. Right?

Correct.

Frank Abela posted:

Ah, I see. So if you connect a BD player to a TV and the TV to a Uniti, the audio would go through the TV down the ARC channel to the Uniti, provided the TV supported that option. Alternatively, you'd need to use S/PDIF from BD to Uniti. Right?

Frank.

Or you could connect an optical out from the TV to the Uniti Digital In to also get the sound from the BD player through the Uniti. This is what I do with my current Uniti2 - works perfectly except for the volume control, which needs to be done using the Uniti controller.

Phil Harris posted:

Cbr600 posted:

when will naim be issuing the brochures / literature on the new range?

I will try to find out from the marketing department what their plans are for product literature...

Cbr600 posted:

regarding the core storage, would it be possible to buy multiple units  as storage capacity is needed, and the system see them as a single source?

Are you meaning multiple Cores or a core and multiple NASs / USB drives? Either would be possible and this functionality was already in the UnitiServe / HDX / NS0x (but not using USB drives).

Cheers

Phil

Phil, I currently have the 2tb HDX and have an 18tb nas, so my original thought was whether I could use core instead of my nas, but I think? that I read the core can store up to 8tb, so wondered about having 2 core to give potentially 16tb of storage, but that it would appear as a single store?

i assume the core holds files same way as the HDX and not raid format?

thanks

Cbr600 posted:

Phil, I currently have the 2tb HDX and have an 18tb nas, so my original thought was whether I could use core instead of my nas, but I think? that I read the core can store up to 8tb, so wondered about having 2 core to give potentially 16tb of storage, but that it would appear as a single store?

i assume the core holds files same way as the HDX and not raid format?

thanks

CBR, why would you replace your NAS with a CORE? This would not add any functionality to your system ...

Holy smoke. 18TB of music? Wow.